africa

Africa at a Fork in the Road: Taking Off or Disappointment Once Again?
Economic
Infrastructure
9. average electric
power consumption
per capita.
10. proportion of
population with access
to electricity.
11. percentage of
paved roads.
12. no of depositors
per 1000 adults.
13. number of mobile
phone subscribers per
100 people.
14. number of internet
users per 100 people.
Agriculture
15.fertilizer consumption
16.stable crop yield
index
17.investment in irrigation
18.credit for inputs
Gender Equity
19. gender parity in
labor force.
20. share of women in
nonagricultural wage
employment.
21. ratio of literate
females to literate
males.
22. ratio of girls to
boys in secondary/
tertiary education.
Using some of these indicators, Ncube and others (2013) have created an Inclusive
Growth Index. 10 The results for the period 2006-10 are in Table 6.5.
Table 6.5: Inclusive Growth Index (IGI) for Africa, With and Without Inequality
Adjustment, 2006-10
Country
IGI without inequality
adjustment
IGI adjusted for inequality
Egypt 0.5528308 1.105662 1
Botswana 0.706965 0.7973578 44
Mauritius 0.7047445 1.05078 5
Tunisia 0.640328 0.9115322 11
Algeria 0.6061221 0.9406515 3
Gabon 0.7014509 1.03896 4
Comoros 0.5243774 0.5455507 42
Rank of country on IGI
adjusted for inequality
111