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Report: Burundi Country Economic Memorandum
SUBMITTED BY Hannah Nielsen ON Thu, 2011-08-4 09:08
This Burundi Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) is the first since 1984. It reviews developments over the past decade, identifies constraints to economic growth, and presents a strategy to promote growth and reduce poverty.
Blog: More on South Sudan
SUBMITTED BY Gabriel Demombynes ON Wed, 2011-03-30 13:30
As a brief follow-up to Shanta's post on the economic policy workshop in South Sudan, here is the World Bank's recent poverty profile for the soon-to-be-country. I've worked closely with the Southern Sudan Centre for Census, Statistics and Evaluation, which collected the data underlying the poverty profile. For more data on South Sudan, see the Centre's Fast Facts publication and their 2010 Statistical Yearbook. Finally, here are videos of the presentation Shanta and Lant Pritchett made at the Juba workshop...
Video: Africa on the brink of an economic take-off
SUBMITTED BY Shanta Devarajan ON Mon, 2011-03-14 14:38
Shanta Devarajan, World Bank Chief Economist for Africa, explains the reasons why we should be optimistic about the continent's development prospects. He provides examples that demostrate that structural changes that will pave the way to sustained economic prosperity are currently happening in Africa. A compressed version of this video-- for low speed internet connections --is including in this posting.
Data: Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market - Selected Tables
SUBMITTED BY Jorge Arbache ON Wed, 2010-10-20 20:27
The report Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market demonstrates that in a number of African countries, women are less likely to be in paid jobs, they are disproportionately concentrated in informal and precarious employment, and they are paid less. It sheds light on the multiple dimensions of the gender disadvantage in Africa’s labor markets and the way these dimensions tend to interact with and reinforce each other. The tables contained in these power point slides include:
- Shared of employed individuals in selected employment status by gender and education, regional average, around 2000
- Gender differences in unemployment rates by age and location, regional average, around 2000
- Average incidence of unemployment by quintile
- Percentage of population employed, by gender, in selected countries
- Comparison of youth employment and older population employment, regional average
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