Determinants of Economic Growth in Africa

This volume is a collection of selected empirical studies on determinants of economic growth in Africa. Grouped into three parts, chapters examine the influence of financial sources and economic growth; sources of productivity growth; and prices, exchange rates and trade relationships with growth in regions in Africa or the continent as a whole.

Almas Heshmati is Professor of Economics at Jönköping University, Sweden, and Sogang University, Seoul. He has held similar positions at Korea University, Seoul National University, University of Kurdistan Hawler, RATIO Institute (Sweden) and MTT Agrifood Research (Finland) and the Stockholm University of Economics. He was Research Fellow at the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), The United Nations University during 2001-04. His research interests include applied microeconomics, globalization, development strategy, efficiency and productivity and growth with application to manufacturing and services. In addition to more than 200 articles in scientific journals he has published books on the EU Lisbon Process, Global Inequality, East Asian Manufacturing, the Chinese Economy, Technology Transfer, Information Technology, Water Resources, Landmines, Power Generation, Renewable Energy, Development Economics, World Values, Poverty, Economic Growth and International Airlines.