Sustaining And Accelerating Pro-poor Growth in Africa
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: February 28, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781589064942
Subjects: Development economics; International economics; Poor; Business / Economics / Finance; Social Science; Sociology; Sub-Saharan Africa; Poverty; Development - Economic Development; Africa, Sub-Saharan; Fiscal policy
Description: Growth in sub-Saharan Africa has shown recent signs of improvement, but is still short of levels needed to attain the Millennium Development Goals. Economists have placed increasing emphasis on understanding the policies that promote sustained jumps in medium-term growth, and the paper applies this approach to African countries. The evidence presented finds an important growth-supporting role for particular kinds of institutions and policies, but also highlights aspects of growth that are still not well understood. Policy guidance for ensuring that the poor benefit from growth is also discussed.--Publisher's description.