Growth of African Economies: Productivity, Policy Syndromes and the Importance of Institutions

By A. Fosu. 2013

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Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems

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Knowledge Economy Gaps, Policy Syndromes, and Catch-Up Strategies: Fresh South Korean Lessons to Africa (2015, unknown): “Consistent with Fosu (2013a), they portray a substantial diversity in development strategies, inter alia, the Bdisinterested-government^ political economy of China; the high-sector and democratically based Indian development approaches; reforms in China and Ghana based on the…”
The Impact of Terrorism on Governance in African Countries (2017, background): “Hence, terrorism can substantially affect the role of government in many separate areas, notably improvements in standards of living (Fosu, 2013; Fonchingong, 2014; Anyanwu & Erhijakpor 2014) and societal change (Fosu, 2015).”
The Role of Governance in Mobile Phones for Inclusive Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (2016, unknown): “In accordance with the justifications provided in Section 2, the six governance indicators from Kaufmann et al. (2010) are: (i) voice & accountability and political stability/no violence for political governance; (ii) government effectiveness and regulation quality for economic governance; and (iii)”
Reinventing Foreign Aid for Inclusive and Sustainable Development: Kuznets, Piketty and the Great Policy Reversal (2016, unknown): “Such strategies are derived from: burgeoning Asian giants of India & China (Singh, 2013; Yao, 2013; Santos-Paulino, 2013); Sub-Saharan Africa (Fosu, 2013b; Subramanian, 2013; Naudé, 2013; Lundahl & Petersson, 2013; Robinson, 2013); East Asia & the Pacific (Thoburn, 2013; Jomo & Wee, 2013; Lee, 2013;”
Enhancing governance for environmental sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa (2020, unknown): “With regard to Fosu (2013), a policy syndrome denotes characteristics that are unfeasible for economic development, inter alia, administered redistribution,” “state breakdown,” “state controls,” and “suboptimal inter temporal resource allocation.”
The Role of Knowledge Economy in African Business (2016, result): “This is consistent with recent studies on African economies which have concluded that institutional development is crucial for the emergence of the continent (Fosu, 2013ab).”
Mobile phones, institutional quality and entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa (2017, background): “the quality of government has been increasingly linked with higher standards of living, especially in terms of improving: the quality of life and the efficient allocation of resources (Fosu, 2013; Anyanwu & Erhijakpor, 2014), the situation of the deprived elderly (Fonchingong, 2014) and the basis of”
Is Poverty in the African DNA (Gene) (2017, background): “For instance (see Figure 2, p. 15): (1) the distance from Addis Ababa to Istanbul in Asia is almost similar to that from the same origin to some represented ethic groups in Southern Africa; (2) the distance from Cairo to Phnom Penh in South East Asia is also almost similar to that from Cairo to the ”