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 …

The purpose of this paper is to examine factors that have constrained South Africa''s growth since the end of apartheid … study finds that sluggish investment has undermined growth since 1996 and that the underinvestment is in part explained by … growth in South Africa …

Estimates of a supply-side model of the nonprimary sectors, in which particular attention has been paid to modeling key …

framework (IGF). Based on the data on growth, poverty, and inequality, the framework allows for the quantitative assessment of … growth inclusiveness. The assessment relies on the decomposition of the change in poverty into growth, distribution, and …The paper suggests an operationally usable framework for the evaluation of growth inclusiveness-the inclusive growth …

This paper examines the dynamic responses of income and poverty to increased investment in the human capital of new … scenarios: one in which each country experiences a rate of growth of human capital investment that is typical of what was … baseline in the year 2050, while the global rate of USD 1.90 poverty is 0.7 percentage points lower in that year. In the latter …