Download or read book Economic Transition in Guinea written by David E. Sahn and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the Republic of Guinea has shed its reputation as one of the most tightly controlled state economies in Africa, leaving behind a cloistered era marked by an extraordinarily closed economic and political system. In breaking with its dismal past, Guinea has launched an ambitious program of reform which has affected the entire range of the country's institutions, regulations, and markets. Culling data from the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations, and numerous interviews and previously unpublished government data, Jehan Arulpragasam and David E. Sahn here present an overview of the Guinean economy, and its evolution—from independence, through crisis, to reform—and model implications of these changes for economic performance and living standards of the poor. Highlighting the chasm between theory and practice, between well-intentioned program and problematic implementation, the authors reveal how Guinea both parallels and contradicts past experiences of economic reform in Africa. Most notably, reform in Guinea has been hindered by the weighty administrative, managerial, and logistical demands of undertaking a vast battery of economic adjustments, all in one fell swoop. The most detailed and informative study of the Guinean economy to date, Economic Transition in Guinea illustrates not only the successes of the nation's reform agenda, but also the fundamental constraints to development that often lie beyond the reach of such reform.
Download or read book Economic transition in Guinea written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guinea written by International Monetary Fund. African Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper discusses Guinea’s 2016–20 National Economic and Social Development Plan (PNDES). The PNDES represents the second generation of planning under the Third Republic, after the 2011–15 Five-Year Plan. Through the 2016–20 PNDES, the authorities intend to address the various development challenges posed by the socioeconomic and environmental situation while ensuring post-Ebola public health surveillance and alignment with international development agendas. The principal beneficiaries of the PNDES are the Guinean populations, but particularly poor and vulnerable groups, the government itself, the private sector, and the regions, including urban and rural areas.
Download or read book Guinea Bissau written by John D. Blacken and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Big Men and Business written by Ben R. Finney and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High in the New Guinea mountains a sociological drama of unique design has been unfolding since the early 1930s. At that time the first of the Europeans who would take part in the area's development trekked into the remote highlands. These early gold prospectors, patrol officers, and missionaries made the first outside contacts with the Stone Age Gorokan people. These encounters ultimately catapulted the Gorokans, subsistence gardeners cultivating sweet potatoes and raising pigs, squarely into the twentieth century. The magnitude of the economic and social changes that followed in the next forty years clearly distinguish the Gorokan case as one of the most remarkable examples of human adaptability to be witnessed in modern times. Although popular thinking has it that traditional societies are change-resistant and that social reforms therefore must precede economic and other types of development, the Gorokans, remarkably, reversed the process and passed from the Stone Age to the twentieth-century marketplace in one generation. Today they are heavily involved in growing coffee, they have developed their own trucking industry for transporting coffee and other cash crops to market, and they are venturing into the raising of beef cattle and the operation of trade stores and various businesses. Big-Men and Business is the record of this extraordinary case of economic change, based on field study conducted in 1967 and 1968. Dr. Finney interviewed many of the Gorokan leaders of this commercial revolution, and draws comparisons between the Gorokan experience and that of other New Guinean peoples. One of the results of his research indicates that the Gorokans may have been predisposed to entrepreneurship. Traditionally, a Gorokan "big-man" was the man who acquired the valuables of his society—cowrie shells, mother-of-pearl shells, pigs, and bird-of-paradise plumes. These leaders were honored for their skills in the flourishing local exchange system. This fact, coupled with a supportive colonial relationship and a favorable natural environment, enhanced the Gorokans' adaptation, and thus the leap from the world of traditional exchange to one where business is conducted on a cash basis was, in reality, a short step. Foreword by Douglas L. Oliver
Download or read book Improvement of Guinea s Economy and Impacts on the Lifes of the Population written by Youssouf Keita and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Business economics - General, grade: B, Atlantic International University (School of Business and Economics), course: Economics, language: English, comment: This research paper is the first of its kind to be published online. It describes the state of the economy in Guinea regarding as to how the economy is improving for the benefit of businesses and households., abstract: The Republic of Guinea is a poor country in the West Africa region. It is endowed with considerable, unexploited resources. It has the world's largest reserves of bauxite (2/3 of global reserves) as well as large deposits of iron ore, gold and diamonds. It also has the potential to develop other metals, oil and gas. However, persistent structural and institutional weaknesses have prevented Guinea from developing a strategic vision and implementing the types of policies needed to reap the full benefit of its mineral wealth. Added to this, rampant corruption, dilapidated electricity and other degraded infrastructure, and political instability have drained and eroded investor confidence. Over the second half of the last decade (2010-2015), Guinea's economy has undergone major transformations with ups and downs. In 2013, economic growth was estimated at 2.0%, down from 3.9% in 2012 due to political dispute over the holding of parliamentary elections, a drop of investment in the mining sector and a recent ebola outbreak in the Forrest Guinea region . Growth, driven by agriculture, improved electricity supply and construction, is expected to increase to 4.3% in 2015. Due to major efforts deployed by the public authority of Guinea in overcoming a number of major obstacles underlined above, reforms which started earlier in 2010 still continue in 2015 so as to transform positively the economy of Guinea in reducing poverty, promoting economic development and building a strong, stable political environment suitable to promote private investment and improve
Download or read book Political and Economic Transition in Guinea Bissau written by John D. Blacken and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adjustment and Agriculture in Africa written by J. Clapp and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-03-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the adoption of a World Bank-sponsored structural adjustment programme in the mid-1980s, Guinea underwent a dramatic change in its economic and agricultural policies. The country's experience over the past decade illustrates some of the most pressing problems encountered by African countries pursuing economic reform. This book analyses these difficulties by examining the adjustment experience in Guinea as it affected the country's overall political economy and the agricultural sector in particular. It also places this case within the broader context of African adjustment.
Download or read book Looking at Guinea Bissau written by Denis Goulet and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report on national level development planning for economic and social development in Guinea Bissau - emphasizes the meeting of basic needs, self-reliance and respecting of indigenous value systems in relation to agricultural development and educational development, and discusses aspects of political leadership in carrying-out alternative development strategies. Bibliography pp. 59 and 60 and references.
Download or read book New Guinea on the Threshold written by Ernest Kelvin Fisk and published by [Pittsburgh,] : University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps on endpapers Bibliography: p [270]-281.
Download or read book Development and Dependency written by Azeem Amarshi and published by Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political economy of Papua New Guinea.
Download or read book Economic Development of Papua and New Guinea written by Papua New Guinea. House of Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Energy Development and Trade in the Gulf of Guinea written by Barinu Institute for, , Barinu Institute Economic Development and published by . This book was released on 2010-10-20 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The robust economic growth in the emerging economies as well as the volatile global political climate has caused disruptive prices of oil and a shift in the structure of the demand for oil. The Gulf of Guinea has one of the highest qualities of crude oil in the world. In spite of these factors a myriad of problems such as poor institutional quality and governance, inconsistent fiscal policies and poor human capital, oil spills and environmental costs among others pose great challenges for the effective development, management and utilization of oil and gas resources from the Gulf of Guinea. This conference would address these issues as well as the need for diversification of trading products. The theme of these conference falls within the scope of the mission of Barinu Institute for Economic Development. I wish you all a very robust discussion during the conference. Uwaifo Aromose Chancellor, Barinu Institute for Economic Development
Download or read book The Politics of Transition in Africa written by Giles Mohan and published by James Currey Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series of studies that examine political issues confronting African peoples, societies and states, this text explores: theories of the state, the transition to democracy and economic development. Published in association with ROAPE North America: Africa World Press
Download or read book Economic Development and Planning in Guinea 1958 1967 written by Alpha Boubacar Diallo and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papua New Guinea Its Economic Situation and Prospects for Development written by World Bank and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papua New Guinea is a newly-independent country, richly endowed with good soils, abundant rainfall, considerable mineral resources, and with forestry and fisheries resources of good commercial potential. The government has shown an impressive ability to deal with the young country's financial, economic, and political problems, and an effective set of institutions for economic and financial management has been created. Development strategy must aim at growing internal and external financial viability and at using the growing resources of financial viability to finance substantive programs designed to increase productivity on a wide front. The strategy hopes to reflect the government's social and cultural values, including the need for increasing national production, which is expected to come partly from a small number of highly productive enclave projects and partly from much broader growth of output in agriculture and industry. Other concerns are income distribution and the quality of life. The strength of Australia's long-term aid commitment and the large role tax revenues from enclave projects play in the thinking of policy makers have prevented attention to new sources of tax revenue and efforts to reduce the cost of government, both of which will be required.
