Africa has enjoyed fifteen years of sustained economic growth. Per capita income for the region as a whole is rising steadily, and regional growth has exceeded the global average. During the last decade six of the world’s ten fastest-growing economies were in Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, there are...

Africa has enjoyed over a decade of sustainable growth where regional growth has exceeded the global average and per-capita income for the region is steadily increasing. During the past decade sub-Saharan Africa was home to six of the ten fastest growing economies in the world. However, there...

This book is a collection of essays that seeks to answer three interrelated sets of questions about Africa's recent growth recovery. The first set of essays addresses questions about the drivers and durability of Africa's growth. How different is current economic performance compared to Africa's...

The authors of this volume analyze the policies that led to East Asia's economic success, including those affecting human resources, savings, the financial sector, trade and institutions, and examine the lessons these policies carry for Latin America. The genesis of this book was an...

Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation?the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors?has not featured in

This was the opening paper to the Conference. The paper combines the historic experience of the author on solar radiation climatology built up over the last 50 years with a more detailed account of his contribution to a number of recent European funded projects dealing with solar radiation in...