Africa Development Indicators 2010: Silent and Lethal: How Quiet Corruption Undermines Africa's Development Efforts (African Development Indicators)

✍ Scribed by World Bank

• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 218
• Edition: Pap/Cdr
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Reliable quantitative data are essential for understanding economic, social and governance development because it provides evidence, and evidence are crucial to set policies, monitor progress and evaluate results. Africa Development Indicators 2010 (ADI) provides the most detailed collection of data on Africa available. It puts together data from different sources, and is an essential tool for policy makers, researchers, and other people interested in Africa. The opening articles of the ADI 2010 print edition focus on behaviors that are difficult to observe and quantify, but whose impact on service delivery and regulation has adverse long-term effects on households. The term "quiet corruption" is introduced to indicate various types of malpractice of frontline providers (teachers, doctors, and other government officials at the front lines of service provision) that do not involve monetary exchange. The prevalence of quiet corruption and its long-term consequences might be even more harmful for developing countries, and for the poor in particular who are more exposed to adverse shocks to their income and are more reliant on government services to satisfy their most basic needs.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 5
Foreword......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Executive summary......Page 13
Silent and lethal: How quiet corruption undermines Africa’s development......Page 15
Notes......Page 37
References......Page 39
Indicator tables......Page 45
Users guide......Page 47
1.1 Basic indicators......Page 51
2.1 Gross domestic product, nominal......Page 52
2.2 Gross domestic product, real......Page 53
2.3 Gross domestic product growth......Page 54
2.4 Gross domestic product per capita, real......Page 55
2.5 Gross domestic product per capita growth......Page 56
2.6 Gross national income, nominal......Page 57
2.7 Gross national income, Atlas method......Page 58
2.8 Gross national income per capita, Atlas method......Page 59
2.9 Gross domestic product deflator (local currency series)......Page 60
2.10 Gross domestic product deflator (U.S. dollar series)......Page 61
2.11 Consumer price index......Page 62
2.12 Price indexes......Page 63
2.13 Gross domestic savings......Page 64
2.14 Gross national savings......Page 65
2.15 General government final consumption expenditure......Page 66
2.16 Household final consumption expenditure......Page 67
2.17 Final consumption expenditure plus discrepancy......Page 68
2.18 Final consumption expenditure plus discrepancy per capita......Page 69
2.19 Gross fixed capital formation......Page 70
2.20 Gross general government fixed capital formation......Page 71
2.21 Private sector fixed capital formation......Page 72
2.22 External trade balance (exports minus imports)......Page 73
2.23 Exports of goods and services, nominal......Page 74
2.24 Imports of goods and services, nominal......Page 75
2.25 Exports of goods and services as a share of GDP......Page 76
2.26 Imports of goods and services as a share of GDP......Page 77
2.27 Balance of payments and current account......Page 78
2.28 Exchange rates and purchasing power parity......Page 80
2.29 Agriculture value added......Page 82
2.30 Industry value added......Page 83
2.31 Services plus discrepancy value added......Page 84
2.32 Central government finances, expense, and revenue......Page 85
2.33 Structure of demand......Page 89
3.1 Millennium Development Goal 1: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger......Page 90
3.2 Millennium Development Goal 2: achieve universal primary education......Page 93
3.3 Millennium Development Goal 3: promote gender equality and empower women......Page 94
3.4 Millennium Development Goal 4: reduce child mortality......Page 95
3.5 Millennium Development Goal 5: improve maternal health......Page 96
3.6 Millennium Development Goal 6: combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases......Page 97
3.7 Millennium Development Goal 7: ensure environmental sustainability......Page 99
3.8 Millennium Development Goal 8: develop a global partnership for development......Page 101
4.1 Doing Business indicators......Page 103
4.2 Investment climate......Page 106
4.3 Financial sector infrastructure......Page 108
5.1 International trade and tariff barriers......Page 110
5.2 Top three exports and share in total exports, 2007......Page 114
5.3 Regional integration, trade blocs......Page 116
6.1 Water and sanitation......Page 118
6.2 Transportation......Page 119
6.3 Information and communication technology......Page 121
6.4 Energy......Page 123
7.1 Education......Page 125
7.2 Health......Page 127
8.1 Rural development......Page 131
8.2 Agriculture......Page 133
8.3 Environment......Page 135
8.4 Fossil fuel emissions......Page 138
9.1 Labor force participation......Page 140
9.2 Labor force composition......Page 142
9.3 Unemployment......Page 144
9.4 Migration and population......Page 146
10.1 HIV/AIDS......Page 148
11.1 Malaria......Page 152
12.1 Aid and debt relief......Page 153
12.2 Status of Paris Declaration indicators......Page 156
12.3 Capable states......Page 158
12.4 Governance and anticorruption indicators......Page 160
12.5 Country Policy and Institutional Assessment ratings......Page 162
12.6 Polity indicators......Page 166
Technical notes......Page 167
Technical notes references......Page 209
Map of Africa......Page 211
Users guide: Africa Development Indicators 2010 CD-ROM......Page 213