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 …

such disparities are increasing, partly as a consequence of the uneven impact of trade openness and globalization. While …

implications of these world commodity price changes for living standards of poor people. Second, a novel ‘backcasting’ approach … approach is also employed to rigorously examine the poverty-growth-inequality triangle. Finally, various simple but useful and …

The current paper demonstrates a dichotomy of the growth response to changes in the barter terms of trade, employing as …

they have played significant roles in the region’s slow and episodic economic growth. Results from cross …-country regressions covering 31 Sub-Saharan African countries suggest that growth in Africa is not simply a question of capital … growth of African economies does not depend so much on their ability to innovate, but rather on their capacity to absorb and …

Africa should industrialize. Without structural change it cannot sustain recent growth. Economies with more diverse and …

stability; foreseethe impacts of macroeconomic policieson developing-country growth; increaseboth market access and capacity …