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Africa Rising: Harnessing the Demographic Dividend

Drummond, Paulo; Thakoor, Vimal; Yu, Shu - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

Africa will account for 80 percent of the projected 4 billion increase in the global population by 2100. The …

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Three Propositions on African Economic Growth

Dhonte, Pierre - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1995

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The Role of Domestic Debt Markets in Economic Growth; An Empirical Investigation for Low-Income Countries and Emerging Markets

Abbas, S. M. Ali; Christensen, Jakob - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

We develop a new public domestic debt (DD) database covering 93 low-income countries and emerging markets over the 1975-2004 period to estimate the growth impact of DD. Moderate levels of non-inflationary DD, as a share of GDP and bank deposits, are found to exert a positive overall impact on...

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The Global Financial Crisis and Workers' Remittances to Africa; What's the Damage?

Chami, Ralph; Barajas, Adolfo; Garg, Anjali; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

Using data on the distribution of migrants from Africa, GDP growth forecasts for host countries, and after estimating … percentage points, with migrants to Europe hardest hit while migrants within Africa relatively unaffected by the crisis. The …

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Sub-Saharan Africa's Integration in the Global Financial Markets

Deléchat, Corinne; Wakeman-Linn, John; Wagh, Smita; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

The paper uses a unique database covering 44 countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries between 2000 and 2007 to …

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Africa - Is This the Turning Point?

Fischer, Stanley; Hernández-Catá, Ernesto; Khan, Mohsin S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1998

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Inclusive Growth; An Application of the Social Opportunity Function to Selected African Countries

Adedeji, Olumuyiwa; Du, Huancheng; Opoku-Afari, Maxwell - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

The inclusiveness of growth depends on the extent of access to economic and social opportunities. This paper applies the concept of social opportunity function to ascertain the inclusiveness of growth episodes in selected African countries. Premised on the concept of social welfare function,...

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