Год выпуска: 2008 Автор: Robert Pollin, Mwangi Wa Githinji, James Heintz Издательство: Страниц: 274 ISBN: 1848440308
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`Three decades after the International Labor Organization's ground-breaking study, Employment, Incomes and Equality, Profs. Pollin, Mwangi and Heintz re-open the path with 21st century economic analyses and instruments. Kenya's policymakers would be unwise not to study these ideas, and then study them again.' - Mbui Wagacha, Former Director of Research, Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR), and Economic Consultant to the African Development Bank and United Nations Economic Commission on Africa `A key challenge faced by African countries today is to translate economic growth into meaningful improvements in living standards at the household level. One of the effective means of addressing this challenge is to design macroeconomic and sectoral policies that explicitly target the creation of decent employment to allow households to overcome poverty. This detailed and innovative study on Kenya provides a valuable contribution on how this can be accomplished by offering a...