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  • Electricity Access in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Uptake, Reliability, and Complementary Factors for Economic Impact

    Series series Africa Development Forum
    Most African households cannot afford electricity access and consumption needed to enhance their economic wellbeing. This research argues that a sustainable path for universal access requires a focus on the productive use. ... Read more

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  • Electricity Access in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Uptake, Reliability, and Complementary Factors for Economic Impact

    Series series Africa Development Forum
    Access to reliable electricity is a prerequisite for the economic transformation of African economies, especially in a digital age. Yet the electricity access rate in Sub-Saharan African countries is often substantially low, households and businesses with access often face unreliable service, and the cost of the service is often among the highest in the world. This situation imposes substantial ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Digital Africa

    Technological Transformation for Jobs

    All African countries need better and more jobs for their growing populations. Digital Africa: Technological Transformation for Jobs shows that broader use of productivity-enhancing digital technologies by enterprises and households is imperative to generate such jobs, including for lower-skilled people. At the same time, broader use can support not only countries’ short-term objective of ... Read more

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  • Digital Africa

    Technological Transformation for Jobs

    Adoption of better technologies by enterprises can generate better and more jobs for African countries' growing populations, including for lower-skilled people. The book recommends policies to ensure availability of affordable digital infrastructure and associated technologies and to promote their use. ... Read more

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  • Trade Competitiveness Diagnostic Toolkit

    This toolkit provides a framework, guidelines, and practical tools for conducting an analysis of a country's trade competitiveness in terms of growth and share performance, diversification, and quality. It aims to facilitate the identification of the main constraints to improved trade competitiveness and the policy responses to overcome these constraints. ... Read more

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  • China in Global Value Chains

    Opening Strategy and Deep Integration

    International trade in the 21st century is characterized by the emergence and development of Global Value Chains. With the reform and opening-up deepening, China has become an important participant and practitioner of global value chains, a staunch supporter and defender of the multilateral trading system, and a contributor to and beneficiary of economic globalization. This book provides an ... Read more

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    Can Manufacturing Still Provide Inclusive Growth?

    Manufacturing jobs, once the backbone of the modern US economy, have declined as a share of GDP over recent decades, darkening opportunities for middle-class advancement. Similar trends have impacted export superpowers like China, Germany, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea. Driven by nostalgia for a bygone era, however, many countries have turned to reshoring and “industrial policies” to revive ... Read more

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    Small scale producers in developing countries lack easy access to efficient logistics services. They are faced with long distances from both domestic and international markets. Unless they consolidate their trade volumes they face high costs which diminish their ability to trade. However the process of consolidation is not without cost nor does it occur on its own accord. As a result the ... Read more

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    A New Economic Era

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    Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) are powerful forces that will likely have large impacts on the size, direction, and composition of international trade flows. This book discusses how industrial robots, automation, and AI affect international growth, trade, productivity, employment, wages, and welfare. The book explains new approaches on how robots and artificial intelligence affect the ... Read more

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