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The African Growth and Opportunity Act : The Perils of Pursuing African Development Through U.S. Trade Law
McCormick, Ryan - 2010
Textiles and Clothing and China's accession to the WTO, the article considers AGOA's effect on Africa's nascent textile and …
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Structural transformation and its relevance for economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Busse, Matthias; Erdogan, Ceren; Mühlen, Henning - 2017
In this paper, we analyse the role of structural transformation in view of the remarkable growth performance of sub-Saharan African countries since the mid-1990s. Our analysis covers 41 African countries over the period 1980 to 2014 and accounts for structural transformation by employing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729148
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Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ghura, Dhaneshwar - 2006
The paper investigates empirically the determinants of economic growth for a large sample of sub-Saharan African countries during 1981-92. The results indicate that (i) an increase in private investment has a relatively large positive impact on per capita growth; (ii) growth is stimulated by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012781831
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Inclusive Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa : Exploring the Interaction Between ICT Diffusion and Financial Development
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Osei, Dennis Boahene; Paul … - 2022
Despite the momentous rise in ICT diffusion, and financial development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), their plausible joint effect on inclusive growth have not been explored, leaving a lacuna in the literature. This study, therefore, examines the direct and indirect effects of ICT diffusion on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013295047
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Do Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and financial development contribute to economic diversification? : evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Owolabi, Oluwarotimi; Adedeji, Adedayo Oluseun; … - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 12 (2023), pp. 1-18
This study based on a panel of 37 sub-Saharan Africa countries over the period of 2000-2019 explores the effect of a number of Information and Communications Technology variables namely fixed broad band, fixed line telephone, Information and Communications Technology good imports, internet,...
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Towards inclusive growth in Africa : remittances, and financial development interactive effects and thresholds
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Gbolonyo, Emmanuel Y.; Dossou, Toyo … - 2023
The study employs macro data for 42 African countries to examine the interactive and threshold effects of financial development in the remittances-inclusive growth relationship. First, evidence based on the system GMM estimator shows that remittances are not statistically significant in...
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Agricultural commodity price shocks and their effect on growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Addison, Tony; Ghoshray, Atanu - 2013
Commodity price shocks are an important type of external shock and are often cited as a problem for economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper quantifies the impact of agricultural commodity price shocks using a near vector autoregressive model. The novel aspect of this model is that we...
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China and Sub-Saharan Africa's Economic Development : A Multipolar Specification
Nal, Abdelrasaq - 2013
Within the purview of contemporary international development discourse, China, alongside other regional powers are … emergent issues have been framed, analyses often proceed along a bilateral framework where the influence of China is isolated … with similar nexus involving China and US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071499
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China's impacts on SSA through the lens of growth and exports
Mu, Yibin; Wang, Chu; Wu, Dong - 2017
The analysis of China's impacts on the 44 SSA countries reveals that: (i) after joining the WTO in 2001, China has … started to impact significantly on SSA growth: one-percent increase in China's GDP per capita leads to 0.02 percent increase … on the SSA's GDP per capita; (ii) oil and investment-goods exporters benefit more from China's growth; (iii) compared to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781254
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A rebalancing act for China and Africa : the effects of China's rebalancing on Sub-Sahara Africa's trade and growth
Chen, Wenjie; Nord, Roger - 2017
How does China's new growth model affect sub-Saharan Africa? To address this question, this paper first looks at the … growing ties between China and Africa; attempts to estimate more precisely the impact on growth through the trade channel; and …
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