2.0 Recent Economic Performance in Africa and Prospects for 2007: Economic Report on Africa 2007
2.0 Recent Economic Performance in Africa and Prospects for 2007: Economic Report on Africa 2007
sustaining high growth rates over an extended period in order to accelerate progress
towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). While growth has
recovered over the past few years, very few countries have achieved and maintained
the growth rates necessary to reduce poverty. Africa still tails behind other regions
in most measures of human development. The continent is plagued by shocks from
the vagaries of international markets and climatic changes as well as the expansion of
the HIV/AIDS pandemic. To improve the situation, it is clear that African countries
need to become more innovative in terms of resource mobilization and in the design
of pro-growth and pro-poor policies to tackle the problems of mass unemployment,
persistent poverty, and pervasive inequality. Such innovative policies are critical for
sustaining the current growth momentum on the continent.
This chapter provides a survey of recent growth performance both at the continental
and subregional level. It discusses developments at the sectoral level and progress and
challenges in human development, closing with a brief exposition of the prospects
for 2007.
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African countries still face the critical challenge of raising the rate of GDP growth and
sustaining high growth rates over an extended period in order to accelerate progress
towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). While growth has
recovered over the past few years, very few countries have achieved and maintained
the growth rates necessary to reduce poverty. Africa still tails behind other regions
in most measures of human development. The continent is plagued by shocks from
the vagaries of international markets and climatic changes as well as the expansion of
the HIV/AIDS pandemic. To improve the situation, it is clear that African countries
need to become more innovative in terms of resource mobilization and in the design
of pro-growth and pro-poor policies to tackle the problems of mass unemployment,
persistent poverty, and pervasive inequality. Such innovative policies are critical for
sustaining the current growth momentum on the continent.
This chapter provides a survey of recent growth performance both at the continental
and subregional level. It discusses developments at the sectoral level and progress and
challenges in human development, closing with a brief exposition of the prospects
for 2007.
20 Recent Economic Performance in Africa and Prospects for 2007 Economic Report on Africa 2007 - To learn more about this author, visit United Nations Economic Commission for Africa's Website.
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