Africa Development Indicators 2008/09

Description

Africa Development Indicators 2008/09 (ADI) provides the most detailed collection of data on Africa available in one volume. It puts together data from different sources, making it an essential tool for policy makers, researchers, and other people interested in Africa. This year's ADI addresses the issue of youth employment. The report shows that success in addressing youth employment in will not be achieved and sustained through fragmented and isolated interventions. Instead it finds that an arching guideline for addressing the youth employment challenge is the need for an integrated strategy for rural development, growth and job creation - which covers the demand and the supply sides of the labor market and takes into account the youth mobility from rural to urban areas - combined with targeted interventions to help young people overcome disadvantages in entering and remaining in the labor market. This edition includes the Africa Development Indicators 2008/09 Single User CD-ROM and opening articles from leading economists reporting and analyzing key African economic and development issues.

Sujets

• Gender
• Rural development
• Unemployment
• Agriculture

Informations

• Publié par: world-bank-publications
• Publié le: 24 mars 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 34
• EAN13: 9780821377871
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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2008/09
Youth and Employment in Africa:
T e Potential, the Problem, the PromiseYOUTH AND
EMPLOYMENT
IN AFRICA
The Potential, the Problem,
the Promise
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ISBN: 978-0-8213-7787-1
e-ISBN: 978-0-8213-7795-6
DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-7787-1
SKU: 17787Contents
Foreword vi
Acknowledgements vii
Youth and Employment in Africa – T e Potential, the Problem, the Promise 1
Introduction 1
Stylized facts about youth and labor markets in Africa 5
Policy response requires an integrated, multi-sector approach 11
and close monitoring
Conclusions 23
Essay references 25
Indicator tables 27
Part I. Basic indicators and national accounts
1. Basic indicators
1.1 Basic indicators 28
2. National accounts
2.1 Gross domestic product, nominal 29
2.2 Groduct, real 30
2.3 Groduct growth 31
2.4 Gross domestic product per capita, real 32
2.5 Groduct per capita growth 33
2.6 Gross national income, nominal 34
2.7 Grome, Atlas method 35
2.8 Gross national income per capita 36
2.9 Gross domestic product defl ator (local currency series) 37
2.10 Gr ator (U.S. dollar series) 38
2.11 Consumer price index 39
2.12 Price indices 40
2.13 Gross domestic savings 41
2.14 Gross national savings 42
2.15 General government fi nal consumption expenditure 43
2.16 Household fi nal consumption expenditure 44
2.17 Final consumption expenditure plus discrepancy 45
2.18 Final coe plus discrepancy per capita 46
2.19 Agriculture value added 47
2.20 Industry value added 48
2.21 Services plus discrepancy value added 49
2.22 Gross fi xed capital formation 50
2.23 Gross general government fi xed capital formation 51
2.24 Private sector fi xed capital formation 52
2.25 Resource balance (exports minus imports) 53
Contents iii2.26 Exports of goods and services, nominal 54
2.27 Imports of goods and servic55
2.28 Exportvices 56
2.29 Imporvices 57
2.30 Balance of payment and current account 58
2.31 Structure of demand 59
2.32 Exchange rates and Purchasing Power Parity 60
Part II. Millennium Developing Goals
3. Millennium Developing Goals
3.1 Millennium Development Goal 1: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger 62
3.2 Millennium Development Goal 2: achieve universal primary education 64
3.3 Millennium Development Goal 3: promote gender equity and empower women 65
3.4 Millennium Development Goal 4: reduce child mortality 66
3.5 Millennium Development Goal 5: improve maternal health 67
3.6 Millennium Development Goal 6: combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases 68
3.7 Millennium Development Goal 7: ensure environmental sustainability 70
3.8 Millennium Development Goal 8: develop a global partnership for development 72
Part III. Development outcomes
4. Paris Declaration indicators
4.1 Status of Paris Declaration Indicators 74
5. Private sector development
5.1 Business environment 76
5.2 Investment climate 78
6. Trade
6.1 International trade and tariff barriers 80
6.2 Top three exports and share in total exports, 2006 84
6.3 Regional integration, trade blocs 87
7. Infrastructure
7.1 Water and sanitation 88
7.2 Transportation 90
7.3 Information and communication technology 92
7.4 Energy 94
7.5 Financial sector infrastructure 96
8. Human development
8.1 Education 98
8.2 Health 100
9. Agriculture, rural development, and environment
9.1 Rural development 104
9.2 Agriculture 106
9.3 Environment 108
9.4 Climate change 112
10. Labor, migration, and population
10.1 Labor force participation 114
10.2 Labor force composition 116
10.3 Unemployment 118
10.4 Migration and population 120
iv Africa Development Indicators 2008/0911. HIV/AIDS
11.1 HIV/AIDS 122
12. Malaria
12.1 Malaria 124
13. Capable states and partnership
13.1 Aid and debt relief 126
13.2 Capable states 128
13.3 Governance and anticorruption indicators 130
13.4 Country policy and institutional assessment ratings 132
13.5 Polity indicators 134
Part IV. Household welfare
14. Household welfare
14.1 Burkina Faso household survey, 2003 135
14.2 Cameroon household survey, 2001 136
14.3 Ethiopia household survey, 1999/00 137
14.4 Liberivey, 2007 138
14.5 Malawi household survey, 2003/04 139
14.6 Niger household survey, 2005 140
14.7 Nigeria household survey, 2003/04 141
14.8 São Tomé and Principe household survey, 2000/01 142
14.9 Sierra Leone household survey, 2002/03 143
14.10 Tanzania household survey, 2000/01 144
14.11 Ugandvey, 2005/06 145
Users Guide 147
Technical notes 151
Technical notes references 203
User’s Guide: Africa Development Indicators 2008/09 CD-ROM 205
Contents vForeword
For centuries, data have been used as an in- To eff ectively serve as a tool for transpar-
strument for decision-making. To choose be- ency, any data set must meet certain criteria.
tween two public policy options—whether or First, it must be accurate. All data in the ADI
not to build a bridge, for example—analysts are rigorously checked and cross-checked;
use data to evaluate the costs and benefi ts of only those data that pass various statistical
each option and inform the decision-maker tests make it in the document. Second, the
accordingly. More recently, data have taken data must be accessible to the public. T is
on a new role: as an instrument for holding is why ADI is disseminated worldwide; the
policymakers accountable. When data are new, improved on-line version permits easy
made publicly available, the public can use access and manipulation of the data to suit
data to question policymakers’ decisions, individual needs and tastes. T ird, the data
and hold them accountable, if not imme- must be salient—it must be about issues
diately then periodically through the ballot that people care about. T is year’s version
box. T e publication of citizen report cards includes new datasets on climate change,
in Bangalore, India; the public expenditure confl ict, and governance, among others.
tracking surveys in Uganda; and Transpar- Following a two-year-old tradition, the
ency International’s worldwide corruption ADI also has an essay: “Youth and Employ-
indices are but three examples where data ment in Africa—T e Potential, the Problem,
have empowered citizens to hold public of- the Promise.” T e choice of this topic is obvi-
fi cers to account. ous. Finding productive employment for the
T e Africa Development Indicators 200 million Africans between the ages of 15
(ADI) seeks to fulfi ll both roles. Originally and 24 is surely one of the continent’s great-