Schaeffer (resource management, West Virginia U.) and Kouassi (economics, U.Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan-Cocody, Ivory Coast) draw together economists and others from North America and Africa for 15 articles that detail methods and approaches for analyzing issues in economic development and implications for the design of economics, through case studies of specific countries. Sections focus on policy issues: employment, economic growth, and inflation, including adjustment processes between economic development and employment, the tradeoff between inflation and economic performance, and the tradeoff between inflation and employment; development and equity, with chapters on income distribution, income inequality, demand for health care services, and land use and ownership in various countries in Africa; the regional impacts of unequal development, with discussion of a model for simulating impacts on regional economies and the relationship between regional industrial structure and economic development; and population and economic growth and energy consumption, the economic impact of technological change, natural resource management, and the relationship between the availability of and access to modern information technology and the relationship between governance and investment.
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