Inclusive Growth and Poverty Reduction in Africa The Experience of Zambia Dr. Francis Chigunta Overview • After stagnating for much of its post‐colonial history‚ economic performance in Africa has improved remarkably in recent times • Average of 5.6 per cent a year • Africa was one of the fastest growing regions in the World from 2001 to 2008 • Despite the global economic crisis Africa’s ‘robust’ growth has since resumed. • 4.8 %on average in 2011 (World Bank)‚ with the • 5.2% (International Monetary Fund)
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version Paper to be presented at IUSSP Conference in Brazil/session-s09 Population Growth and Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions Anqing Shi Development Research Group The World Bank Keywords: Population‚ global warming‚ Carbon Dioxide Emissions‚ projections Abstract: Previous studies on the determinants of carbon dioxide emissions have primarily focused on the role of affluence. The impact of population growth on carbon dioxide emissions has received less attention. This paper takes a step forward
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have prosperity without growth. The following six (6) themes are reviewed in order to determine their effect on the economy (and the Colorful Corporation): 3 1. Ecology & sustainability; 2. Population & demographics; 3. Science & technology; 4. Economy; 5. Geopolitics & security; and‚ 6. Society & culture. The aim of this report is to provide recommendations in order to determine: 1. Whether it is possible to have prosperity without growth; 2. The review of themes
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Discuss the extent to which economic growth may benefit the economy. (18) Economics growth is‚ it the short run an increase in real GDP and in the long run an increase in the productive capacity of an economy (the maximum output that the economy can produce). GDP stands for Gross Domestic Product which is the country’s production of goods and services valued at market price in a given time period. Real GDP is when these figures are corrected for inflation using a base year (The UK uses 2003 as
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Relationship between Economic Growth and Community Development -Nigerian Examples By John Paul Akinduro Post Graduate Diploma (Blended) Submitted to: The School of Media and Communication Pan Atlantic University‚ Lagos November 2013 Table of contents Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………3 Methodology…………………………………………………………………………….3 Introduction……………………………………………………………………………..4 What is Economic Growth………………………………………………………....4 What is Community Development…………………………………………
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Explain why there might be rapid economic growth in a country (10m) Economic growth measures the rate of change in the volume of output produced within the economy. It is a key indicator of the nation’s economic wellbeing. Rapid economic growth can be described as economic growth that occurs in a short period of time‚ or at a great speed. A country might experience rapid economic growth due to increases in aggregate demand which lead to actual growth‚ interest rates‚ exchange rates‚ as well as
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Economic Growth and Public Policy of the UK: Does the protectionism help? Introduction The effects of globalization have touched all the aspects of life and business today. One aspect is the trading policies between countries. Since the late nineteenth century‚ the collision started between domestic and foreign industries‚ which ask governments for measures that could protect local industries‚ without discouraging the country’s trade relations. The term ‘Protectionism’ was thus introduced
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES GROWTH IN REGIONS Nicola Gennaioli Rafael La Porta Florencio Lopez de Silanes Andrei Shleifer Working Paper 18937 http://www.nber.org/papers/w18937 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 April 2013 We are grateful to Jan Luksic for outstanding research assistance‚ to Antonio Spilimbergo for sharing the structural reform data set‚ and to Robert Barro‚ Peter Ganong‚ and Simon Jaeger for extremely helpful comments. Shleifer
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Economic growth in the context of the production possibilities frontier is defined as a representation of a point at which an economy is most efficiently producing the nation’s goods and services and therefore allocating all its resource in the best way possible. If the economy is not producing at the amount of estimated quantities that are indicated by the production possibility frontier that means the resource are being managed inefficiently and the production of the economy will start to slow
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The role of financial intermediation in the economic growth process was recognised as far back as the 17th century when Walter Bagehot‚ in his classic Lombard Street‚ argued that it was England’s efficient capital markets that made the industrial revolution possible. Centuries later‚ modern day economists hold largely the same view that access to investment capital‚ through well functioning financial markets‚ is crucial for growth and development‚ particularly in capital-scarce developing countries
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