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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “andy mckay”
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  • Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Edited by Channing Arndt, Andy McKay, Finn Tarp ...
    Series series WIDER Studies in Development Economics
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. While the economic growth renaissance in sub-Saharan Africa is widely recognized, much less is known about progress in living conditions. This book comprehensively evaluates trends in ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

  • Child Poverty and Social Protection in Central and Western Africa

    by Gustave Nébié, Thomas Pogge, Jan Vandemoortele, Shailen Nandy, Marco Pomati, Ismael Cid Martinez, Sarah Hague0, Daniela Gregr1, Edgar F.A. Cooke2, Andy McKay3, Maryam Abdu4, Aristide Kielem5, Diana Skelton6, Jacqueline Plaisir7, C. Nana Derby8, Samuel Okposin9, Shelley Okposin0, Christiana O. Adetunde1, Robert Asogwa2 ...
    Series Book 5 - CROP International Poverty Studies
    In the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Livingstone declaration, and the UN Social Protection Floor, this book deals jointly with multi-dimensional child poverty and social protection in Western and Central Africa. It focuses both on extent and types of social protection coverage and assesses various child poverty trends in the region. More importantly, it looks at social ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It

    by Morten Jerven ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    One of the most urgent challenges in African economic development is to devise a strategy for improving statistical capacity. Reliable statistics, including estimates of economic growth rates and per-capita income, are basic to the operation of governments in developing countries and vital to nongovernmental organizations and other entities that provide financial aid to them. Rich countries and ... Read more

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  • Equality For Women: Where Do We Stand?

    by Buvinic Mayra; Morrison Andrew R.; Sjoblom Mirja; Ofosu-Amaah A. Waafas ...
    Upon signing the Millennium Declaration in 2000, the international community committed itself to eight development goals with timebound targets and measurable indicators. The third of these eight goals was to "promote gender equality and empower women". The third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3) in the Millennium Declaration has spurred national and international efforts to improve women's ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Smart Fiscal Consolidation

    A Strategy for Achieving Sustainable Public Finances and Growth

    by Galina Kolev, Jürgen Matthes ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    Due to high government debt levels and the dangers of self-defeating austerity in Europe, smart fiscal consolidation measures are needed that foster economic growth. A thorough review of the relevant literature provides many useful insights. To regain credibility, a clearly communicated broad reform program (including structural reforms) is required. Targeting mainly public expenditures, rather ... Read more

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  • Who Votes Now?

    Demographics, Issues, Inequality, and Turnout in the United States

    by Jan E. Leighley, Jonathan Nagler ...
    Who Votes Now? compares the demographic characteristics and political views of voters and nonvoters in American presidential elections since 1972 and examines how electoral reforms and the choices offered by candidates influence voter turnout. Drawing on a wealth of data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey and the American National Election Studies, Jan Leighley and Jonathan ... Read more

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  • The International Monetary Fund (IMF)

    Politics of Conditional Lending

    by James Raymond Vreeland ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    This is a clear and concise introduction to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and an overview of its debates and controversies.Where did the IMF come from? What does it do? Why do so many governments participate in its programs and what are their effects? How can we best reform this key global institution? These are some of the key questions addressed.In our age of thinking global, the IMF is ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Oil Wealth in Central Africa: Policies for Inclusive Growth

    by Bernardin Akitoby, Sharmini Coorey ...
    Despite its vast oil wealth, central Africa still struggles to sustain strong, inclusive economic growth or to generate sufficient employment opportunities, particularly for its fast-growing youth population. Drawing on new research, Oil Wealth in Central Africa lays out the macroeconomic and growth challenges facing the region; examines oil wealth management and its implications for poverty ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Urban Labor Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Edited by Philippe De Vreyer, Francois Roubaud ...
    Series series Africa Development Forum
    Although labor is usually the unique asset upon which poor people can make a living, little is known about the functioning of labor markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. The purpose of this volume is to contribute to the building of knowledge in this area. In this book, the authors use a unique set of identical and simultaneous labor force surveys conducted in seven capitals of Western Africa, as well as ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Public Expenditures for Agricultural and Rural Development in Africa

    Edited by Tewodaj Mogues, Samuel Benin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    Whereas there is plenty of work looking at macroeconomic effect of public spending on growth and poverty in Africa as well as studies of the impact of spending or investment in one economic sector on outcomes in that sector or on broader welfare measures, this book fills a much needed gap in the research looking how the composition of public spending affects key development outcomes in the region ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Hunger and Markets

    World Hunger Series

    by United Nations World Food Programme ...
    Hunger and Markets is the third volume of the UN World Food Programme's World Hunger Series - created to help promote a better understanding of the choices confronting leaders as they work to fight hunger. It appears at a crucial time, with food prices at high levels, a severe global financial crisis and vulnerable households around the world endangering their future health, education and ... Read more

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  • Poverty in a Rising Africa

    by Kathleen Beegle, Luc Christiaensen, Andrew Dabalen, Isis Gaddis ...
    Perceptions of Africa have changed dramatically. Viewed as a continent of wars, famines and entrenched poverty in the late 1990s, there is now a focus on "Africa rising" and an "African 21st century." Two decades of unprecedented economic growth in Africa should have brought substantial improvements in well-being. Whether or not they did, remains unclear given the poor quality of the data, the ... Read more

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