Economic Growth and Development

The Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) is an Africa-wide network of regional nodes supporting the Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), in collaboration with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Africa-based centers of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), to facilitate the implement

We examine the cumulative impact of early schooling investments on later schooling outcomes using enrollment status and relative grade attainment as short-run and long-run measures of schooling.

The second issue of Africa's Pulse was released on October 8, 2010. It provides the following analysis on African countries:

1. Recent economic trends and prospects

2. Trends in country policies and institutions

3. Progress toward the MDGs

This report is a joint Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) and World Bank initiative aimed at facilitating informed policy-making in public service management. As in other post-conflict situations, the Southern Sudanese state faces two sets of challenges--the provision of security and establishing legitimacy, and making the state function effectively and efficiently. These issues have a renewed significance in the face of the fiscal management challenges due to extreme commodity dependence on oil, coupled with the referendum due in 2011.

This report is intended to provide a thorough analytical foundation for strategic planning and sector dialogue among education policy makers, development partners and civil society representatives at a key turning point in the development of education in Ghana. During the last decade, access has radically improved. Between 2002/03 and 2009/10 enrollments in primary education grew by 1,284,673 or 50.9 percent.

Burundi’s growth policy should focus on: (1) closing the infrastructure gap; (2) gaining from regional integration; (3) improving the business environment; (4) promoting new growth sources; and (5) strengthening its fiscal position through improved revenue mobilization, more efficient spending, better public financial management, and more effective aid.

The Montpellier Panel presented their new report ‘Growth with Resilience: Opportunities in African Agriculture’ on Wednesday 21st March at the Department for International Development (DFID), London and on Thursday 22nd March at the European Commission, Brussels.

Spatial inequality in global economic development has left Africa with the least progress in improving living standards among developing regions of the world. Moreover, there are strong neighborhood effects within Africa. This paper revisits the explanation of unequal growth across countries in an African context. We argue that some of the lingering disagreements over the channels through which institutions and geography may explain differences in income per capita across countries could be resolved by accounting for neighborhood effects often overlooked in past analyses.