| Description |
1 online resource (312 pages) |
| Contents |
List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction / Andy McKay and Erik Thorbecke -- The anatomy of growth and development in Sub-Saharan Africa / Erik Thorbecke -- Is poverty a binding constraint on growth in Sub-Saharan Africa? / Jean-Yves Duclos and Stephen A. O'Connell -- Agriculture as an engine of growth and poverty reduction: lessons for Africa / Douglas Gollin -- Growth, employment creation, and poverty reduction: an overview, evidence, and possible applications to Africa / Haroon Bhorat -- The informal economy, economic growth, and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa / Ernest Aryeetey -- Spatial inequality and its implications for growth-poverty-reduction relations / Andy McKay and Emilie Perge -- Linking economic growth to poverty reduction under globalization: a case for harnessing globalization for the poor in Sub-Saharan Africa / Machiko Nissanke -- Real exchange rate undervaluation and poverty / Ibrahim A. Elbadawi -- Author index -- Subject index |
| Summary |
This volume discusses long-standing, but central, economic issues in sub-Saharan Africa, including the nature of growth-poverty-inequality relations, agriculture, the labour market and openness, and globalisation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
Economic development -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Poverty -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Economic development.
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Poverty.
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Wirtschaftswachstum
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Armut
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Bekämpfung
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Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Subsaharisches Afrika
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McKay, Andy, 1973- editor.
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Thorbecke, Erik, 1929- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191044120 |
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0191044121 |
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9780191795343 |
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0191795348 |
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