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Nigeria’s economy is indeed under severe strain but sub-Saharn Africa’s most populus nation won’t solve its economic problems via an emergency national confab.
Economic growth is a necessary condition for development. But it can only pass the sufficient condition test if growth translates into high-earning jobs. Ghana’s recent history illustrates this.
Countries like Rwanda have shown that regional integration can enhance growth and reduce poverty. South Sudan should follow its lead in its engagement with the East African Community.
Recent studies show that development aid to poor countries contributes in the long term to their economic growth. But the aid architecture has adapted slowly to a new reality.
China posted its lowest annual GDP growth since 1990 – at 6.9% – but it’s not cause for undue concern.
The credit-ratings agencies are already circling to cut the UK’s grade if it votes to leave the EU. Here’s how their calculations work, and what we should do about it.
Like any commodity, the value of the rand is determined by the market forces of supply and demand. Its weakening is also affected by a myriad of structural problems facing the South African economy.
The ability to create faster, better and cheaper solutions using minimal resources is poised to drive global growth in 2016 and beyond.
Since becoming prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull has been talking about the importance of innovation. This is what he’s referring to.
Through creating entrepreneurs and boosting global collaboration, science has the potential to drive economic growth and innovation – if only the government would properly fund it.
Too often the government’s economic plans have relied on overly optimistic expectations of future growth.
African governments should adopt a top-down rather than bottom-up approach to encouraging the creation of businesses.
We have all the tools to achieve economic growth and environmental sustainability - we just have to choose to use them.
New research shows Australia will be better off with the NBN than it would have been without it.
Without true structural reform and business investment the G20 economies will be unable to deliver on their lofty growth ambitions.
Science and technology is seen as a key driver of a nation’s economic fortunes. How is the African continent faring a decade after the first major global survey on countries’ performance?
South Africa’s lack of a clear policy direction, poor leadership, corruption and electricity supply problems will be the major constraints to its economic growth over the next 20 years.
The demand for agricultural products in Africa is expected to rise over the next 35 years due to factors such as population growth, urbanisation, economic growth and changing diets.
Greece can learn a lot from Africa’s 1980s and 1990s experience of living with structural adjustment (austerity). The damage has been long-lasting – not only on economies, but also directly on people.
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
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Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City St George's, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University
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Professor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Professor of Business Economics, University of Birmingham
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Professor, Griffith Law School, Griffith University
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