Tag: African Economic Growth
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What Forces Are Driving African Economic Growth?
Africa on the Blog: What Forces Are Driving African Economic Growth? … Much of the promising economic news coming out of Africa reflects the benefit of rising commodity prices. The continent can also expect to capitalize on having a comparatively young demographic structure, as the growth 16 to 30 age bracket provides the potential for…
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How is Africa actually doing?
Free Exchange: How is Africa actually doing? HERE'S a toy version of what most people would recognise as the received wisdom on sub-Saharan Africa's economic performance in recent years: Some countries have had a pretty sustained period of high growth rates. But growth has been fairly concentrated in some resource-rich countries; most of the benefits…