inclusive green growth (IGG) relationship in Africa. Based on macro data for 22 African countries and the Driscoll …-Kraay standard errors with fixed effects instrumental variable regression, the following findings are established. First, Africa … threshold analysis suggests that by improving Africa’s mostly unfree economic architecture to 60% (moderately free) or 80% (free …

In the first part of the paper we look at economic growth in Africa over the past three decades. We divide the past …. During the first period, Africa did not catch up but lost ground, Africa's average per capita income declined. Since the mid … growth rates for Africa and several individual countries. We use the Hodrick-Prescott filter with different values for the …

development finance projects across 3,097 physical locations committed to Africa over the 2000-2012 period. Our econometric …

procyclicality Africa's resilience against external shocks improved. This also helped to better cope with the Great Recession of 2009. …

-to-date information about the cyclical stage of the global economy and of major emerging and developing regions including Africa …

Using high-resolution data from Africa over the period 1998-2012, this paper investigates the hypothesis that a higher …

countries. The illusion of sustained African apparel exports is created by late-bloomers in East Africa offsetting boom …-bust patterns in Southern Africa and insignificant responses in Central and West Africa. Firm-level customs data reveal that even in … East Africa the recent export growth was driven by new entrants rather than incumbent firms whose competitiveness might …

local economic shocks across Africa. We further show how counterfactual exercises based on these estimates and the …

. We study an overlooked part of this Columbian Exchange: the effects of New World crops in Africa. Specifically, we test … Africa. We find robust empirical support for these predictions. We also find little evidence to suggest maize increased …