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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
R&D and Innovation
Author : George Kararach
Published in: Development Policy in Africa
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Commentators agree that the primary objective of economic development programmes is to improve the quality of life of the general population. In Africa, there exists the increasingly widespread phenomenon of ‘jobless growth’ (see Léautier and Hanson, 2012; Kararach et al., 2011) where economic growth rates have risen in recent years, unaccompanied by any significant improvement in most of the indicators of human development. The implications of increasing unemployment on human development are obvious. The growing gap between Africa, and especially Sub-Saharan Africa, and most of the rest of the world, is entrenching this decoupling of economic growth and human development.