This paper measures the extent to which South African economic growth is an engine of growth in sub-Saharan Africa …. Results based on panel data estimation for 47 African countries over four decades suggest that South African growth has a … substantial positive impact on growth in the rest of Africa, even after controlling for other growth determinants. The estimates …

This paper provides estimates of potential output growth in post-apartheid South Africa using both time trend … techniques and a production function approach which indicates a potential growth rate of around 3 percent. The implied output gap … macroeconomic policy. Growth accounting and regression analysis suggest that an increase in trend GDP growth after the end of …

trade and TFP growth both over time and across sectors …

This paper provides a quantitative assessment of the impact of economic growth in the United States on growth in other … countries. Using panel data estimation, the paper finds a significant positive impact of U.S. growth on growth in the rest of ….S. growth on other countries can be explained by the significance of the United States as a global trading partner. The paper …

This paper empirically examines the extent to which a country''s economic growth is influenced by its trading partner … economies. Panel estimation results based on four decades of data for over 100 countries show that trading partners'' growth and … relative income levels have a strong effect on domestic growth, even after controlling for the influence of common global and …