Economic Growth and Development in Ethiopia

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This volume is a collection of selected empirical studies on determinants of economic growth and development in Ethiopia.The core argument for editing this book is to provide an up-to-date picture of the state and patterns of growth and development in Ethiopia. Ethiopia has been under focus in the past due to draughts, war, famine, development changes and the effects of global economic crisis in the country. A main contribution of this volume is that it helps identify selected important determinants of growth and development in Ethiopia and provides an estimation of their effects using up-to-date data, modelling and methods. Taken together the studies provide a comprehensive picture of the state of growth and development, their measurements, causal relationships and evaluation of efficient policies and practices in achieving progress in Ethiopia. The issues covered represent major challenges to the government and development organizations who are aiming at achieving higher growth and alleviating poverty in the country. The studies cover transition from rural agriculture to urban industry and the development of services.

About the author

Almas Heshmati, is Professor of Economics at Sogang University and Jönköping University, Sweden. He has held similarpositions in Korea University,Seoul National University, University of Kurdistan Hawler, RATIO Institute (Sweden) and MTT Agrifood Research (Finland). He was Research Fellow at the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), The United Nations University during 2001-04. From 1998 till 2001, Heshmati was an Associate Professor of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. He has a PhD from the University of Gothenburg (1994),where he held a Senior Researcher’s position until 1998. His research interests include applied microeconomics, globalization, development strategy, efficiency and productivity and growth with application to manufacturing and services. In addition to more than 200 articles in scientific journals he has published books on the EU Lisbon Process, Global Inequality, East Asian Manufacturing, the Chinese Economy, Technology Transfer, Information Technology, Water Resources, Landmines, Power Generation, Renewable Energy, Development Economics, World Values, Poverty, Economic Growth and International Airlines.

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