Financing Human Development In Africa Asia And The Middle East
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Author | : Rob Vos |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Economic development |
ISBN | : 9781472544551 |
How much would poor nations need to invest to eliminate poverty, get all children in school and provide adequate basic health care for all? Can they afford it? Financing Human Development in Africa, Asia and the Middle East provides some clear answers to these questions. The contributors assess feasible financing strategies underpinning actions to enhance human development in pursuance of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The contributors analyse these strategies in the context of broader concerns of economic development in nine countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle E.
Author | : Rob Vos |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2014-01-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1780935617 |
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com. How much would poor nations need to invest to eliminate poverty, get all children in school and provide adequate basic health care for all? Can they afford it? Financing Human Development in Africa, Asia and the Middle East provides some clear answers to these questions. The contributors assess feasible financing strategies underpinning actions to enhance human development in pursuance of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The contributors analyse these strategies in the context of broader concerns of economic development in nine countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The assessments stress the importance of redesigning macroeconomic policies so as to make these more supportive of long-term economic growth and employment creation, while ensuring sufficient investments in human development in order to end poverty and overcome deep-rooted inequalities.
Author | : Mr.Hamid R Davoodi |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2003-09-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781589062290 |
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is an economically diverse region. Despite undertaking economic reforms in many countries, and having considerable success in avoiding crises and achieving macroeconomic stability, the region’s economic performance in the past 30 years has been below potential. This paper takes stock of the region’s relatively weak performance, explores the reasons for this out come, and proposes an agenda for urgent reforms.
Author | : Farrukh Iqbal |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
This book reviews the effectiveness of poverty reduction and human development strategies in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region since the mid-1980s. Issues discussed include: trends in inequality and income poverty, human development indicators in relation to regional comparisons and country-specific performance, links between education, health and poverty, gender dimensions, assistance programmes such as food and energy subsidies, public works and microfinance schemes. The report finds that although there was stagnation in the rate of poverty reduction during this period, health and education indicators improved substantially.
Author | : Vivien Foster |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
This booklet contains the Overview as well as a list of contents from the forthcoming book Africa's Infrastructure: A time for Transformation.
Author | : Mr.Dhaneshwar Ghura |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1995-12-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1451855753 |
The paper investigates empirically the determinants of economic growth for a large sample of sub-Saharan African countries during 1981-92. The results indicate that (i) an increase in private investment has a relatively large positive impact on per capita growth; (ii) growth is stimulated by public policies that lower the budget deficit in relation to GDP (without reducing government investment), reduce the rate of inflation, maintain external competitiveness, promote structural reforms, encourage human capital development, and slow population growth; and (iii) convergence of per capita income occurs after controlling for human capital development and public policies.
Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2021-03-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9264473041 |
Middle East and North Africa Investment Policy Perspectives highlights the considerable progress in investment policies made by the region’s governments over the past decade. Yet, the reform momentum needs to be sustained and deepened for the benefits of investment to be shared with society at large and for growth to be sustainable, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting global economic upheaval.
Author | : Rilwan Sakariyahu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Several studies in the literature have identified the critical role of financial technology (fintech) in improving socio-economic conditions of nations, measured by human development index (HDI). However, despite the efforts to increase HDI using fintech, the ranking of African countries on the index table remains low. Given that access to electricity is imperative for fintech and fundamental to human development, we provide novel evidence by investigating the degree to which the prevailing energy poverty in Africa affects the success of fintech on human development in the continent. Our results show that fintech has a significant positive impact on human development and the impact remains consistent irrespective of the estimation methods employed. However, when we split our sample based on regions and income classification proposed by the World Bank, our results show that the impact of fintech on HDI is more pronounced in the uppermiddle, high-income, Eastern, Central and Southern countries. The Western countries have not significantly benefitted from fintech adoption, perhaps because those countries fall in the low-income categories and have a high prevalence of energy challenge. In the light of the current state of human development in Africa, our study advocates for more investments in energy infrastructure for the rapid realization of the gains of fintech.
Author | : Hilary Devine |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2021-05-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1513571567 |
The Covid-19 pandemic has aggravated the tension between large development needs in infrastructure and scarce public resources. To alleviate this tension and promote a strong and job-rich recovery from the crisis, Africa needs to mobilize more financing from and to the private sector.
Author | : Peter B. Dixon |
Publisher | : Newnes |
Total Pages | : 1886 |
Release | : 2013-01-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 044462631X |
Top scholars synthesize and analyze scholarship on this widely used tool of policy analysis in 27 articles, setting forth its accomplishments, difficulties, and means of implementation. Though CGE modeling does not play a prominent role in top U.S. graduate schools, it is employed universally in the development of economic policy. This collection is particularly important because it presents a history of modeling applications and examines competing points of view. Presents coherent summaries of CGE theories that inform major model types Covers the construction of CGE databases, model solving, and computer-assisted interpretation of results Shows how CGE modeling has made a contribution to economic policy