This paper draws on history, anthropology, and economics to examine the dynamics and extent of women's contribution to growth and economic development in post-colonial Africa. The paper investigates the...
This paper proposes a model to analyze the implications of colonial policies for gender inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa. The model emphasizes segmentation of production under complete specialization...
This paper draws on an expanded growth accounting framework to estimate the relative contribution of women to growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Empirical results show a consistently positive contribution of...
Bringing together history and economics, this paper presents a historical and processual understanding of women's economic marginalization in Sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial period to the end...
Access to debt relief under the Highly Indebted Poor Country Initiative enhanced the growth performance across Sub-Saharan Africa, especially in the subset of debt-ridden low-income countries. Over the...
In 2001, the same year the Millennium Declaration was adopted, the World Bank approved a 'gender mainstreaming strategy,' to foster gender equality in Bank operations and policies. It subsequently revised...
In 2001, the same year the Millennium Declaration was adopted, the World Bank approved a 'gender mainstreaming strategy,' to foster gender equality in Bank operations and policies. It subsequently revised...
Sub-Saharan Africa's dismal development outcomes -- growth collapse and declining real income -- are often used to highlight its sharp development contrast with other regions of the developing world. Drawing...
In light of the proliferation of exceptionally large fiscal stimuli to ward off the recession triggered by the 2008 global economic and financial crisis in most advanced economies, this paper revisits...
Over the past few decades, the foreign liabilities of the majority of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have grown dramatically, propelling most nations into the status of Highly Indebted Poor Countries...
In spite of the similarities between Sub-Saharan Africa and the Arab Gulf region (Gulf Cooperation Council states), development policies implemented in these two regions of the world have produced markedly...
Over the decades leading to the global financial crisis, the world witnessed a deepening integration of world economies, irrespective of a country’s geographical location on the spherical space. This process...
Despite the recent increase in capital flows to Sub-Saharan Africa, the region remains largely marginalized in financial globalization and chronically dependent on official development aid. And with the...
Since the industrial revolution, advances in science and technology have continuously accounted for most of the growth and wealth accumulation in leading industrialized economies. In recent years, the...
It is a well-known fact that one of the most important determinants of growth is private investment. But in the developing country context of widespread poverty, the effects of initial conditions on the...
This paper investigates the leading causes of nonperforming loans during the economic and banking crises that affected a large number of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s. Empirical analysis...
Fofack和Monga分析了拉脱维亚在1990年代末期转轨恢复阶段中的贫困与收入不平等动态。尽管收入不平等持续扩大,经验性证据表明,拉脱维亚的生活水平提高了。这主要是因为人均收入大幅度增长,尤其是在城市地区。在收入不平等增加与城乡收入和贫困差距不断扩大的情况下,增长的收益分布不均,有些地区(尤其是Latgale和Vitzeme)和有些社会经济群体(尤其是主要收入来自社会福利的家庭)仍然在贫困中挣扎。除了收入不平等和资产条件以外,贫困与若干劳动力市场变量(尤其是失业)之间存在有力的联系,表明劳动力市场可能是增长与贫困之间的重要传输渠道。然而,虽然贫困与失业之间存在正相关的联系,但这种联系并不是线性的,尤其是在城市地区。在那里,最重要的传输渠道是劳动力市场和需求,增长和宏观经济发展通过该渠道影响家庭收入和生活水平。
A public expenditure tracking survey (PETS) of the resource flows of the public service providers in the health and education sectors in Rwanda traced the budgetary resource flow from the ministry of finance...
1994年非洲法郎贬值以后,布基纳法索出现了为期5年的经济增长时期,作者分析了在这一时期布基纳法索贫困人口的决定因素和变化情况。结果显示,贫困问题决定因素的性质及变化受家庭空间分布的影响,货币贬值后出现的经济增长并没有很大地改变贫困决定因素的模式。在经济增长时期决定贫困现象的主要因素包括年龄依赖性的负担,人力及物质资本,个人福利设施以及空间分布。就全国而言,这些因素的影响都很显著,但这些决定因素和社会福利之间相关关系的方向则取决于它们的性质。年龄依赖性的负担和社会福利总是负相关的关系,而资产所有权则是正相关的。贫困的概率随着家庭资产比例的上升而下降,并随着年龄依赖性负担的上升而上升。但是,从各地区的情况来看,情况有所不同,这些决定因素的显著程度出现变化。年龄依赖性比例还是农村贫困问题最显著的决定因素,但其解释力在城镇地区明显下降,从两个参考时期来看它对城镇地区贫困概率的边际效果相对很低,尽管概率系数非常显著,而且渐进标准误差也相对较低。
During the past decade, the need for effective targeted programs that provide significant support to the poor within tightening budget constraints has become more apparent than ever. The design of efficient...