Economists around the world rely in addition to official statistics on business (and consumer) surveys, which are more … partly, be filled by the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES). In this paper we first describe this survey and also examine how …-to-date information about the cyclical stage of the global economy and of major emerging and developing regions including Africa …

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 …

. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, we show that a majority of students spend years of …

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

with the literature arguing that greater trade openness would unequivocally lead to higher growth in Africa …

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

in countries that experience an unexpected natural resource windfall as measured by shocks to exogenous world prices …

African countries over the period 1988-2010. Our results show that growth and energy use are strongly linked in Africa … may work for all countries in Africa …