support the development of manufacturing or export-oriented service sectors. Yet the recent growth experience of many African … economic growth and structural change by developing a multisector intertemporal general equilibrium model. We find that the … substantial short-run growth shock consistent with the Dutch disease theory. Opposed short-run effects on the growth of the …

Ghana has made considerable progress over the last 20 years in sustaining economic growth and reducing poverty. The … require Ghana to double its per capita income over the next decade. In this paper we explore the growth experiences of other … evaluate sources of accelerated growth and their contributions to overall growth and transformation... The authors conclude …

, looking for evidence of recent changes in growth patterns using a nonparametric Malmquist index. Our TFP estimates show a … an important role in improving agriculture's performance. As TFP growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is mainly a result of … catching up to the frontier, we expect growth to slow in the coming years unless African countries accelerate the incorporation …

area expanded at 4.7 percent. The remaining growth resulted from intensive use of other inputs, increased productivity …, increased efficiency, or a combination of these factors. This study applies growth accounting and two econometric approaches on …

quite striking when compared with the past. For the first time, the sector has maintained a real growth rate of 3.4 percent … per year, well above the population growth rate of 2.5 percent. Despite this improved performance, agricultural … productivity growth in SSA continues to lag behind every other region of the world, growing at rates that are roughly half of the …

years, looking for evidence of recent changes in growth patterns using an improved nonparametric Malmquist index. Our TFP … performance, economies in SSA face serious challenges to sustain growth. Among these are the small contribution of technological … change to TFP growth in the past, the large tax burden imposed by remaining distortions, and the challenge of population …

agricultural growth? In attempting to answer this question, we survey the empirical literature at micro and macro levels concerning …

internal conflicts, decreasing oil revenues, and governance failure. The latest official growth numbers date back to precrisis … consistent economic framework is presented to help close this information gap and to better understand growth and poverty … dynamics during crises. Results show that economic growth in Yemen accelerated during the food and fuel crises in 2008 because …

this paper support a comprehensive petroleum subsidy reform in Yemen. Economic growth is projected to accelerate between 0 …, industrial, and service value chains, which should encourage private sector led and job creating growth in the medium term. …

and Governments as a vision for the restoration of agricultural growth, food security, and rural development in Africa … country received 2.5 percent growth as a result of spillover. Finally, our results suggest that convergence dynamics is much …