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The Mauritian Success Story and its Lessons
Subramanian, Arvind - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009
Mauritian growth experience since the mid-1970s. We show that arguments based on openness to trade and FDI are either misleading …This paper examines different explanations.initial conditions, openness to trade and FDI, and institutions.of the … or incomplete. Even when correctly articulated, openness appears to be a proximate rather than an underlying explanation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973362
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Aid Allocation and Fragile States
McGillivray, Mark - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006
This paper summarises research on aid allocation and effectiveness, highlighting the current findings of recent research on aid allocation to fragile states. Fragile states are defined by the donor community as those with either critically poor policies or poorly performing institutions, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031685
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Gains from Trade: Implications for Labour Market Adjustment and Poverty Reduction in Africa
Fosu, Augustin Kwasi; Mold, Andrew - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007
This paper reassesses the gains from trade for sub-Saharan Africa, and draws their implications for labour market adjustment and poverty reduction. It reviews previous studies on multilateral liberalization, focusing on the findings from computable general equilibrium (CGE) models with relevance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005001379
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Assessing the Impact of One Aspect of Globalization on Economic Growth in Africa
Baliamoune, Mina N. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031673
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Rising Spatial Disparities and Development
Kanbur, Ravi; Venables, Anthony J. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005
such disparities are increasing, partly as a consequence of the uneven impact of trade openness and globalization. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031790
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Will the Euro Trigger More Monetary Unions in Africa?
Honohan, P.; Lane, P.R. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2000
We analyse the prospects for greater monetary integration in Africa, in the wake of EMU. We argue that the structural characteristics of African economies are quite different to the EMU members but that much can be gained from monetary cooperation, as external agency of restraint and in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661057
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Aid as a catalyst for pioneer investment
Collier, Paul - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
I discuss how aid can support growth in small, isolated economies. Small markets frustrate scale economies and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854445
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Gendered perspectives on economic growth and development in sub-Saharan Africa
Seguino, Stephanie; Were, Maureen - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
Researchers have linked sub-Saharan Africa.s (SSA) poor growth performance in recent decades to several factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854459
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Dimensions of African inequality
Bigsten, Arne - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that det
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854460
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Aid, employment, and poverty reduction in Africa
Page, John; Shimeles, Abebe - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed … to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation?the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854479