Augustin Kwasi Fosu
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 700497 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Augustin Kwasi Fosu |
| PRENOMES | Augustin Kwasi |
| SOBRENOME | Fosu |
| ASSINATURA | FOSU A K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1987 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Economic Inequality and Social Progress
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Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
The present study employs recent World Bank data to shed light, in a global context, on the transformation of changes in income and inequality into poverty reduction for a large number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The study begins by discussing SSA's progress on poverty. Next, it presents data on how various African countries have fared in terms of the incidence of poverty relative to other countries, with special emphasis on the per…
Development Success
What lessons can be learnt from 'developed' countries that might be useful for developing and emerging economies? With an emphasis on long-term growth and development, this volume provides historical accounts on developing lessons. It covers the Nordics, Japan, Ireland, and Switzerland, and three European transition countries.
Inequality, Income, and Poverty
Objectives. The study seeks to provide comparative global evidence on the role of income inequality, relative to income growth, in poverty reduction. Methods. An analysis‐of‐covariance model is estimated using a large global sample of 1980–2004 unbalanced panel data, with the headcount measure of poverty as the dependent variable, and the Gini coefficient and PPP‐adjusted mean income as explanatory variables. Both random‐effects and fixed‐effects…
The Effect of Income Distribution on the Ability of Growth to Reduce Poverty
The present study examines the extent to which income distribution affects the ability of economic growth to reduce poverty, based on 1990s data for a sample of rural and urban sectors of African economies. Using the basic-needs approach, an analysis-of-covariance model is derived and estimated, with the headcount, gap, and squared gap poverty ratios serving as the respective dependent variables, and the Gini coefficient and PPP-adjusted incomes …
Inequality and the Impact of Growth on Poverty
This study explores the extent to which inequality affects the impact of income growth on the rates of poverty changes in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) compared to non-SSA, based on an unbalanced panel of 86 countries over 1977–2004. For all three measures of poverty – headcount, gap, and squared gap – the impact of GDP growth on poverty reduction is a decreasing function of initial inequality. The impacts are similar in direction for SSA and non-SSA,…
Fiscal Allocation for Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Research Productivity of Black Economists
Mapping Growth into Economic Development
The study finds that elite political instability (PI)-the incidence of coups d'etat-has negatively influenced the mapping of GDP growth into economic development, measured as the algebraic difference in the United Nations Human Development Index, in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) between 1970 and 1985. Taking into account the additional adverse impact of PI on economic development through its deleterious influence on economic growth, the study estimate…
Political Instability and Economic Growth
The study examines the differential roles of various elite political instability (PI) events-successful coups d'etat, abortive coups, or coup plots-in the growth of Sub-Saharan Africa. It analyzes World Bank economic statistics and data on the incidence of coups d'etat for 31 countries in a cross-country augmented production function framework that incorporates PI events as well as labor and capital as arguments. It finds that abortive coups, rat…
Economic Fluctuations and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
The traditional thesis that export instability (XI) is deleterious to economic growth in developing economies has received mixed empirical results. For African countries, recent research suggests that the effect of XI is weak, but that capital (investment) instability (KI) adversely influences economic growth. The current study argues that in many of these nations, imports are likely to be critical to the growth process, while exports represent o…
The External Debt Burden and Economic Growth in the 1980s
The study estimates the effect of external debt on economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) during the 1980s when debt became a burden, and a majority of SSA countries defaulted. By using 1980–1990 World Bank data across 35 SSA countries in an augmented production function framework, the study finds that net outstanding debt was deleterious to economic growth for given levels of production inputs, whereas SSA's growth would have been 50% highe…
Racial and Gender Differences in Unemployment Patterns in an Urban Labor Market
An Economic Theory of Pan-Africanism
Economics
Labor Force Participation of Black and White Married Women
The study theoretically argues that differential economic conditions constitute an important rationale for structural differences in labor force participation (LFP) between black and white married women. Empirical evidence based on 1980 census data for metropolitan statistical areas provides support for the concomitant hypotheses. Not only is the LFP propensity for black wives larger, but also it is relatively insensitive to the arguments of the …
Do Black and White Women Hold Different Jobs in the Same Occupation? a Critical Analysis of the Clerical and Service Sectors
Employing 1960 and 1981 census data at the three-digit level, the study finds that black and white women were employed at different jobs in the predominantly female clerical and service occupations in both 1960 and 1981. However, there appears to be a slight reduction in black female job dissimilarity with white females between 1960 and 1981 in both occupations. Moreover, while employment of black women, relative to white women, in 1960 was obser…
Political Instability and Economic Growth
Occupational Mobility of Black Women, 1958-1981
This study finds that between 1965 and 1981, black women's occupational mobility rose relative to that of white women and white men by about 20% and 24%, respectively, and that more than half of these gains remain even after controlling for pre-existing trends, cyclical economic conditions, education, and factors potentially influencing the labor supply. No evidence is found to support the null hypothesis that this pattern is explained in signifi…
Capital instability and economic growth in Sub‐Saharan Africa
The current study finds that instability in capital formation ‐capital instability (CI), rather than export instability (EI) per se, is a relevant variable affecting growth of less developed countries (LDCs) of Sub‐Saharan Africa. Using a cross‐sectional analysis involving 1967–86 World Bank annual data on 33 Sub‐Saharan LDCs, the article observes that neither CI nor EI exercises a negative influence on GDP growth when arguments of the augmented …
Exports and economic growth
Trends in Relative Earnings Gains by Black Women
The current article argues that the labor pattern of black women may be properly viewed within a trisectoral segmentation of the labor market. A three-phase characterization of their relative earnings behavior over the postwar period is implied. Empirical evidence lends support to the basic hypothesis of an acceleration in black female earnings growth, relative to white males and females, during the intermediate post-1964 period, but a decline th…
Explaining Post-1964 Earnings Gains by Black Women
This article examines the earnings position of black females relative to white males for the post-1964 period. It finds that over 70 percent of the 1965–78 growth in black female relative median earnings remains after controlling for previous trends, education, and cyclical and labor supply changes. For full-time, year-round workers, the post-1964 trend independently implies a growth rate about 50 percent higher than that actually observed. Appro…
Political Instability and Economic Growth
The study examines the differential roles of various elite political instability (PI) events-successful coups d'etat, abortive coups, or coup plots-in the growth of Sub-Saharan Africa. It analyzes World Bank economic statistics and data on the incidence of coups d'etat for 31 countries in a cross-country augmented production function framework that incorporates PI events as well as labor and capital as arguments. It finds that abortive coups, rat…
Political Instability and Economic Growth
The Effect of Income Distribution on the Ability of Growth to Reduce Poverty
The present study examines the extent to which income distribution affects the ability of economic growth to reduce poverty, based on 1990s data for a sample of rural and urban sectors of African economies. Using the basic-needs approach, an analysis-of-covariance model is derived and estimated, with the headcount, gap, and squared gap poverty ratios serving as the respective dependent variables, and the Gini coefficient and PPP-adjusted incomes …
Inequality, Income, and Poverty
Objectives. The study seeks to provide comparative global evidence on the role of income inequality, relative to income growth, in poverty reduction. Methods. An analysis‐of‐covariance model is estimated using a large global sample of 1980–2004 unbalanced panel data, with the headcount measure of poverty as the dependent variable, and the Gini coefficient and PPP‐adjusted mean income as explanatory variables. Both random‐effects and fixed‐effects…
Explaining Post-1964 Earnings Gains by Black Women
This article examines the earnings position of black females relative to white males for the post-1964 period. It finds that over 70 percent of the 1965–78 growth in black female relative median earnings remains after controlling for previous trends, education, and cyclical and labor supply changes. For full-time, year-round workers, the post-1964 trend independently implies a growth rate about 50 percent higher than that actually observed. Appro…
Fiscal Allocation for Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mapping Growth into Economic Development
The study finds that elite political instability (PI)-the incidence of coups d'etat-has negatively influenced the mapping of GDP growth into economic development, measured as the algebraic difference in the United Nations Human Development Index, in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) between 1970 and 1985. Taking into account the additional adverse impact of PI on economic development through its deleterious influence on economic growth, the study estimate…
The Research Productivity of Black Economists
The External Debt Burden and Economic Growth in the 1980s
The study estimates the effect of external debt on economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) during the 1980s when debt became a burden, and a majority of SSA countries defaulted. By using 1980–1990 World Bank data across 35 SSA countries in an augmented production function framework, the study finds that net outstanding debt was deleterious to economic growth for given levels of production inputs, whereas SSA's growth would have been 50% highe…
Racial and Gender Differences in Unemployment Patterns in an Urban Labor Market
An Economic Theory of Pan-Africanism
Occupational Mobility of Black Women, 1958-1981
This study finds that between 1965 and 1981, black women's occupational mobility rose relative to that of white women and white men by about 20% and 24%, respectively, and that more than half of these gains remain even after controlling for pre-existing trends, cyclical economic conditions, education, and factors potentially influencing the labor supply. No evidence is found to support the null hypothesis that this pattern is explained in signifi…
Exports and economic growth
Do Black and White Women Hold Different Jobs in the Same Occupation? a Critical Analysis of the Clerical and Service Sectors
Employing 1960 and 1981 census data at the three-digit level, the study finds that black and white women were employed at different jobs in the predominantly female clerical and service occupations in both 1960 and 1981. However, there appears to be a slight reduction in black female job dissimilarity with white females between 1960 and 1981 in both occupations. Moreover, while employment of black women, relative to white women, in 1960 was obser…
Trends in Relative Earnings Gains by Black Women
The current article argues that the labor pattern of black women may be properly viewed within a trisectoral segmentation of the labor market. A three-phase characterization of their relative earnings behavior over the postwar period is implied. Empirical evidence lends support to the basic hypothesis of an acceleration in black female earnings growth, relative to white males and females, during the intermediate post-1964 period, but a decline th…
Explaining Post-1964 Earnings Gains by Black Women
This article examines the earnings position of black females relative to white males for the post-1964 period. It finds that over 70 percent of the 1965–78 growth in black female relative median earnings remains after controlling for previous trends, education, and cyclical and labor supply changes. For full-time, year-round workers, the post-1964 trend independently implies a growth rate about 50 percent higher than that actually observed. Appro…
Trends in Relative Earnings Gains by Black Women
The current article argues that the labor pattern of black women may be properly viewed within a trisectoral segmentation of the labor market. A three-phase characterization of their relative earnings behavior over the postwar period is implied. Empirical evidence lends support to the basic hypothesis of an acceleration in black female earnings growth, relative to white males and females, during the intermediate post-1964 period, but a decline th…
Exports and economic growth
Capital instability and economic growth in Sub‐Saharan Africa
The current study finds that instability in capital formation ‐capital instability (CI), rather than export instability (EI) per se, is a relevant variable affecting growth of less developed countries (LDCs) of Sub‐Saharan Africa. Using a cross‐sectional analysis involving 1967–86 World Bank annual data on 33 Sub‐Saharan LDCs, the article observes that neither CI nor EI exercises a negative influence on GDP growth when arguments of the augmented …
Political Instability and Economic Growth
Occupational Mobility of Black Women, 1958-1981
This study finds that between 1965 and 1981, black women's occupational mobility rose relative to that of white women and white men by about 20% and 24%, respectively, and that more than half of these gains remain even after controlling for pre-existing trends, cyclical economic conditions, education, and factors potentially influencing the labor supply. No evidence is found to support the null hypothesis that this pattern is explained in signifi…
Do Black and White Women Hold Different Jobs in the Same Occupation? a Critical Analysis of the Clerical and Service Sectors
Employing 1960 and 1981 census data at the three-digit level, the study finds that black and white women were employed at different jobs in the predominantly female clerical and service occupations in both 1960 and 1981. However, there appears to be a slight reduction in black female job dissimilarity with white females between 1960 and 1981 in both occupations. Moreover, while employment of black women, relative to white women, in 1960 was obser…
Labor Force Participation of Black and White Married Women
The study theoretically argues that differential economic conditions constitute an important rationale for structural differences in labor force participation (LFP) between black and white married women. Empirical evidence based on 1980 census data for metropolitan statistical areas provides support for the concomitant hypotheses. Not only is the LFP propensity for black wives larger, but also it is relatively insensitive to the arguments of the …
Economics
The External Debt Burden and Economic Growth in the 1980s
The study estimates the effect of external debt on economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) during the 1980s when debt became a burden, and a majority of SSA countries defaulted. By using 1980–1990 World Bank data across 35 SSA countries in an augmented production function framework, the study finds that net outstanding debt was deleterious to economic growth for given levels of production inputs, whereas SSA's growth would have been 50% highe…
Racial and Gender Differences in Unemployment Patterns in an Urban Labor Market
An Economic Theory of Pan-Africanism
Economic Fluctuations and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
The traditional thesis that export instability (XI) is deleterious to economic growth in developing economies has received mixed empirical results. For African countries, recent research suggests that the effect of XI is weak, but that capital (investment) instability (KI) adversely influences economic growth. The current study argues that in many of these nations, imports are likely to be critical to the growth process, while exports represent o…
Political Instability and Economic Growth
The study examines the differential roles of various elite political instability (PI) events-successful coups d'etat, abortive coups, or coup plots-in the growth of Sub-Saharan Africa. It analyzes World Bank economic statistics and data on the incidence of coups d'etat for 31 countries in a cross-country augmented production function framework that incorporates PI events as well as labor and capital as arguments. It finds that abortive coups, rat…
Mapping Growth into Economic Development
The study finds that elite political instability (PI)-the incidence of coups d'etat-has negatively influenced the mapping of GDP growth into economic development, measured as the algebraic difference in the United Nations Human Development Index, in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) between 1970 and 1985. Taking into account the additional adverse impact of PI on economic development through its deleterious influence on economic growth, the study estimate…
The Research Productivity of Black Economists
Fiscal Allocation for Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
Inequality and the Impact of Growth on Poverty
This study explores the extent to which inequality affects the impact of income growth on the rates of poverty changes in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) compared to non-SSA, based on an unbalanced panel of 86 countries over 1977–2004. For all three measures of poverty – headcount, gap, and squared gap – the impact of GDP growth on poverty reduction is a decreasing function of initial inequality. The impacts are similar in direction for SSA and non-SSA,…
Inequality, Income, and Poverty
Objectives. The study seeks to provide comparative global evidence on the role of income inequality, relative to income growth, in poverty reduction. Methods. An analysis‐of‐covariance model is estimated using a large global sample of 1980–2004 unbalanced panel data, with the headcount measure of poverty as the dependent variable, and the Gini coefficient and PPP‐adjusted mean income as explanatory variables. Both random‐effects and fixed‐effects…
The Effect of Income Distribution on the Ability of Growth to Reduce Poverty
The present study examines the extent to which income distribution affects the ability of economic growth to reduce poverty, based on 1990s data for a sample of rural and urban sectors of African economies. Using the basic-needs approach, an analysis-of-covariance model is derived and estimated, with the headcount, gap, and squared gap poverty ratios serving as the respective dependent variables, and the Gini coefficient and PPP-adjusted incomes …
Development Success
What lessons can be learnt from 'developed' countries that might be useful for developing and emerging economies? With an emphasis on long-term growth and development, this volume provides historical accounts on developing lessons. It covers the Nordics, Japan, Ireland, and Switzerland, and three European transition countries.
Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
The present study employs recent World Bank data to shed light, in a global context, on the transformation of changes in income and inequality into poverty reduction for a large number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The study begins by discussing SSA's progress on poverty. Next, it presents data on how various African countries have fared in terms of the incidence of poverty relative to other countries, with special emphasis on the per…
Economic Inequality and Social Progress
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