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Chapter 1. Output, Demographic, and Employment Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia »
Source: Structural Transformation in Employment and Productivity : What Can Africa Hope For?
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s): Louise Fox , Alun Thomas , and Cleary Haines
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 07 April 2017
ISBN: 9781475583397
Keywords: Employment, Productivity, Structural adjustment, Structural transformation, Sub Saharan Africa
Structural transformation has become a widely used macroeconomic measure of the quality of the economic development process. 1 It is widely accepted that in order for it to happen...

Chapter 2. Transformation and Productivity: Comparison with Asia »
Source: Structural Transformation in Employment and Productivity : What Can Africa Hope For?
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s): Louise Fox , Alun Thomas , and Cleary Haines
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 07 April 2017
ISBN: 9781475583397
Keywords: Employment, Productivity, Structural adjustment, Structural transformation, Sub Saharan Africa
Productivity Transformation The employment and output data were combined to make assessments of the speed of structural adjustment in sub-Saharan Africa compared with Asian countries...

Deepening Structural Reform in Africa : Lessons from East Asia »
Series: Books
Author(s): Laura Wallace
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 13 May 1997
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557756343.071
ISBN: 9781557756343
Keywords: structural adjustment, foreign exchange, banking, privatization, central bank
As Africa looks for ways to deepen and accelerate the economic reform process, what lessons can East Asia offer? this book edited by Laura Wallace, records the proceedings of a seminar that involved a dynamic excha...

5 Financial Reform in Central Asia: Lessons from the Kyrgyz Republic »
Source: Deepening Structural Reform in Africa : Lessons from East Asia
Series: Books
Author(s): Laura Wallace
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 13 May 1997
ISBN: 9781557756343
Keywords: structural adjustment, foreign exchange, banking, privatization, central bank
Before we can decide whether or not the financial reform experience of a Central Asian country can be of some help to the structural reform of an African economy, we must understand the differences between t...

Private Participation in Infrastructure: Lessons from Asia’s Power Sector »
Source: Finance & Development, December 1997
Volume/Issue: 34/4
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 1997
ISBN: 9781451951905
Keywords: privatization, capital markets, capital market, capital market development, capital outflows
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