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Professor Tarp has four decades of experience in academic and applied development economics research and teaching. His field experience covers more than two decades of in-country work in 35 countries across Africa and the developing world more...
This project aims to define some of the key constraints facing African economies as they attempt to maintain a long-run economic growth and development trajectory. The work will provide the analytical basis for policy recommendations and value-added guidance to domestic policymakers in the fast-growing economies of Africa, as well as for the broader global community interested in the development of the region.
The project will also offer a set of common lessons, from which the next generation of high-growth African economies could potentially learn. Despite a general view that Sub-Saharan Africa is the last great untapped market, ripe for rapid growth and development, there is very little research on the relationship between economic growth and employment outcomes at the country level. Hence, the extent to which this notion of a mass consumer market on the continent needs to be realized ex ante through the creation of a significant number of jobs – is arguably absent in the current research agenda on Africa.
A better understanding of the structure of each country’s workforce and the implications it has for human capital development, the vulnerably employed and the working poor is critical to informing the future development policy agenda, and is thus the focus of the individual country studies presented in this project.
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Africa's LionsExamining the economic forces that will shape Africa’s future Africa’s Lions examines the economic growth experiences of six fast-growing and/or economically dominant African countries. Expert African researchers offer unique perspectives into the...
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African Lions - Tapping the potential of Kenya's economic growth
From 2000-2014, like many other sub-Saharan African countries, Kenya experienced high growth, at an average of 4.37 percent. Unfortunately, the 2007...
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African Lions - Ghana's job creation successes and obstacles
Over the past two decades, Ghana’s economy experienced an average annual growth rate of 5.8 percent, and became a low-middle income country in 2007...
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Demographic, employment, and wage trends in South AfricaWhile South Africa’s democratic transition precipitated a period of growth, this growth was not inclusive and both poverty and inequality remain high A significant trend in the South African labour market has been the rising share of workers in the...
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This project is part of Macro-economic management (M-EM)
Theme: 2014-18, Transformation