Africa's improved growth performance over the last 15 years provides an opportunity for the continent to transit from …. Government intervention in favour of industrialization in the 1960s-1970s resulted in the neglect of agriculture, poor growth … require accelerated agricultural productivity growth, a modernized informal service sector, and effective industrialization …

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 Africa's post-1995 growth story. As a result, the region's fastest growing economies have the least …

The present paper sheds new light on the growth implications of gender inequalities in the Moroccan labour market. We … to relate growth to the relative employment of women and, also, suggest simulations for Morocco. Both approaches lead to … one of the rare attempts to elicit the growth potential of a reduction in the employment gap in a low-income country. …

This paper reviews the role of services in development and growth, the potential role of trade in services as a driver …

SBRs measures are related to higher economic growth and firm level productivity. …