Economic growth and its components in African nations
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An investigation of the linkage between economic progress and improvements in the quantity and quality of labor and capital reveals a sharp difference in the marginal products of labor quantity and quality and capital quantity and quality across African countries. Marginal products of education are highest in such countries as Algeria, Mozambique, Nigeria and South Africa, while marginal products of capital quantity or quality are highest in Madagascar, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and South Africa. Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Mozambique, Tunisia and Zaire offer promising opportunities in all four quantity and quality factors.
Publication Name: Journal of Developing Areas
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0022-037X
Year: 1996
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Priorities for urban labor market research in Anglophone Africa
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There are several key issues on urban labor market research in Anglophone Africa that were identified. The key issues deal with the need to comprehend the manner of absorption into employment of new workers, the accumulation of viable data to assess the education and vocational training to advance informal sector's productivity and incomes and the interrelation of household poverty status and labor market member inclusion.
Publication Name: Journal of Developing Areas
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0022-037X
Year: 1992
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Sectoral inflation in Yugoslavia
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Several developments in Yugoslavia such as the internal conflict and the various republics' declarations of independence have made a significant impact on the world's economic history. Wage and price inflation reached extremelevels. Wage inflation was 22.2% in 1980 and it ballooned to 73.7% after 5 years reaching 183.3% by 1988. Price inflation was also up 200% by 1988.
Publication Name: Journal of Developing Areas
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0022-037X
Year: 1992
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