This chapter introduces the book on Vietnam's economic development from 1990 to 2023. It provides an overview of how Vietnam has grown into a strong economy in Southeast Asia through investments in…

This book intends to provide a continuous assessment of the crisis in governance in Africa. As it is, there are huge deficits in the capacity of African states to harness vast human and material...

Youth unemployment remains disproportionately high in Africa. However, a growing digital economy, supported by improvements in information and communications technology, including access to the...

Emerging countries including Ghana have witnessed significant growth in their industrialisation and urbanisation. Getting an understanding of their effects on carbon emissions has gained the attention…

This chapter examines the role of financial technology (FinTech) in transforming the delivery of banking and financial services and its potential in promoting financial inclusion in Africa . The…

AbstractEmployment income data are coarsened as a result of questionnaire design. In the previous chapter we saw that Statistics South Africa (SSA) ask two employment income questions: an exact income…

This paper assesses the prospects of AfCFTA—which commenced trading in January 2021—in boosting intra-African trade in services. We use the PPML estimator of the gravity model on bilateral services...

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) aims to create a single liberalised market for goods, services, and capital, with arrangements to ease the movement of persons, deepen integration, and…