Showing 1 - 10 of 115
This paper provides a basic understanding of the nature of emerging key information and communication technologies, and establishes the distance of countries from high-quality access to the internet - the necessary threshold one needs to cross in order to make use of such technologies. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588874
There are large volumes of gas offshore Tanzania, which has raised hopes of a boom. But those hopes look set to be disappointed. A boom would depend on there being a sizeable flow of revenue to government from producing and exporting gas. This paper sets out the scale of the gas, and the array...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955475
at benchmarks of scale and timing so as to put potential booms into the context of the challenges of growth and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955486
to be developmental, how political coalitions are formed to be growth-oriented, and how technocratic agencies are … Critical Junctures: How South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore Survived Growth-led Conflicts(Veerayooth Kanchoochat) -- 4 Reemerging …-Genocide Rwanda(Shinichi Takeuchi) -- 7 Growth Policy and Regional Balance: Developmental State-Building in Myanmar(Toshihiro Kudo and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397033
trends. We evaluate the implications of climate change for overall growth and development prospects to 2050. We focus on … three impact channels: agriculture, road infrastructure, and hydropower generation while accounting explicitly for the … uncertainty in climate forecasts. We find that climate change is unlikely to substantially slow overall economic growth over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230922
relationship between inequality and growth, the role of agriculture in the development process, the relationships between ethnicity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249771
Researchers have linked sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) poor growth performance in recent decades to several factors … identifies linkages between gender, economic development, and growth, however. This paper explores the macro effects of gender … stimulus to growth in a number of SSA countries underscores the importance of assessing the gender effect of macroeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251669
Over the past twenty years, Mozambique has achieved remarkable progress in promoting macroeconomic growth and stability … movement of labour out of agriculture has contributed to aggregate growth. But, this trend is slowing and is leading to a … saturation of the services sector. Moreover, productivity growth is weakening within more labour-intensive sectors. We conclude …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382454
This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms actively and consistently for three decades now, and has produced many laws, processes and structures that are 'best in class' in Africa (and beyond). The problem is that many of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192401
looking forward to a much better future - in terms of both growth and human development - than was deemed possible at the time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913065