• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Yes Africa can : success stories from a dynamic continent
  • Contains: Tanzania: growth acceleration and increased public spending with macro stability / David O. Robinson, Matthew Gaertner, and Chris PapageorgiouEconomic growth & performance in Uganda: the importance of sustained reform / Sarah Ssewanyana, John Mary Matovu and Evarist Twimukye -- Growth & economic transformation in Mozambique / Antonio Nucifora -- Botswana success: good governance, good polices and good luck / Michael Lewin -- Mauritius: an economic success story / Ali Zafar -- Burkina-Faso: strengthening the cotton sector and preparing for balanced growth / Jonathan Kaminski -- Post-conflict economic governance reform: the experience of Liberia / Vishal Gujadhur -- Decentralization in post-conflict Sierra Leone: is the genie out of the bottle? / Vivek Srivastava and Marco Larizza -- A state is born: transport infrastructure and democracy in Somaliland / Jean-Paul Azam -- Growing Mali's mango exports: linking farmers to markets through innovations in the value chain / Yéyandé Sangho, Patrick Labaste, and Christophe Ravry -- Economic liberalization in Rwanda's coffee sector: a better brew for success / Karol Boudreaux -- Cocoa in Ghana: shaping the success of an economy / Shashi Kolavalli and Marcella Vigneri -- Apparel exports in Lesotho: the state's role in building critical mass for competitiveness / Malika Shakya -- The success of tourism in Rwanda: gorillas and more / Hannah Nielsen and Anna Spenceley -- Moneymaker pumps: creating wealth in sub-Saharan Africa / I. V. Sijali and M. G. Mwago -- The Nerica success story: development, achievements and lessons learned / Aliou Diagne, Soul-Kifouly Gnonna Midingoyi, Marco Wopereis, and Inoussa Akintayo -- Fertilizer in Kenya: factors driving the increase in usage by smallholder farmers / Joshua Ariga and T. S. Jayne -- The Malawi agricultural inputs subsidy program: experience over 2005-09 / Andrew Dorward, Ephraim Chirwa, T. S. Jayne -- ICT in sub-Saharan Africa: success stories / Kaoru Kimura, Duncan Wambogo Omole, and Mark Williams -- Mobile payments go viral: M-PESA in Kenya / Ignacio Mas and Dan Radcliffe -- IPPs in sub-Saharan Africa: determinants of success / Anton Eberhard and Katharine Nawal Gratwick -- Innovative financing for health in Rwanda: a report of successful reforms / Sekabaraga C., Soucat A., Diop F., Martin G -- Family planning trends in sub-saharan africa: progress, prospects, and lessons learned / Mona Sharan, Saifuddin Ahmed, John May, Agnes Soucat -- Health extension workers in Ethiopia: improved access and coverage for the rural poor / Nejmudin Kedir Bilal, Christopher H. Herbst, Feng Zhao, Agnes Soucat, and Christophe Lemiere -- Africa did! the malaria control success story (2005-2010) / Anne-Maryse Pierre-Louis, Jumana Qamruddin, Isabel Espinosa, and Shilpa Challa -- Achieving universal primary education through school fee abolition: policy lessons from Uganda / B. Essama-Nssah.
  • Contributor: Angwafo, Manka [Other]; Chuhan-Pole, Punam [Other]
  • imprint: Washington, D.C: World Bank, 2011
    2011
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (xiii, 477 p); ill. (some col.), maps; 28 cm
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-8745-0
  • ISBN: 9780821387450; 9780821387467
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  • Keywords: Africa Economic conditions 1960- ; Africa Economic conditions 21st century ; Africa Economic policy ; Africa Politics and government 21st century ; Africa Social conditions
  • Reproductino series: World Bank eLibrary
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references