Emerging Africa
By: Jean-Claude Berthélemy ... [et al]
Contributors: Salmon, Jean-Michel; Söderling, Ludvig; Solignac Lecomte, Henri-Bernard
Series: Development Centre studies; Development Centre Studies
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9789264195745
Subjects: Development
Description: Emerging Africa is based on the fundamental conviction that, unless growth resumes, poverty cannot be reduced in the least developed countries. This study analyses the factors underlying the renewed dynamism of certain African economies in the 1990s. Several countries are, indeed, trying to meet the challenge of building the three pillars of sustainable growth -- capital accumulation, productivity gains and institutional reforms -- in order to combat long-term poverty.The authors identify the countries that are on the way to sustained growth and, on the basis of case studies, the policies they have put in place to further the reform process. These policies are presented with a view to advising both emerging African economies and those seeking to join them.
Table of contents: title: Preface by Jorge Braga de Macedo; title: Part One: Economic Growth Scenarios for Africa by by Jean-Claude Berthelemy and Ludvig Soderling; title: Chapter 1. Renewed Progress in Africa in the 1990s?; title: Chapter 2. Factors of Economic Take-Off in Africa; title: Annex: Structural Change in the Productive Sector; title: Part Two: Analysis of Growth Factors in Six African Countries by Jean-Claude Berthelemy and Ludvig Soderling; title: Chapter 3. Capital Accumulation by Jean-Claude Berthelemy and Ludvig Soderling; title: Chapter 4. Human Capital; title: Chapter 5. Exports; title: Part Three: The Political Economy of Reform in Six African Countries by Jean-Michel Salmon; title: Chapter 6. Overview; title: Chapter 7. Burkina Faso; title: Chapter 8. Cote d'Ivoire; title: Chapter 9. Ghana; title: Chapter 10. Mali; title: Chapter 11. Uganda; title: Chapter 12. Tanzania; title: Concluding Summary: Policy Options for Emerging Africa by Henri-Bernard Solignac Lecomte; title: Bibliography