This Selected Issues paper analyzes Jamaica’s experience of low growth despite consistently high investment rates. It … suggests that the link between public debt and productivity is part of the answer to the puzzle. The paper considers Jamaicaâ …

This Selected Issues paper examines the sources of real growth in Guinea. It identifies and quantifies the impact on … real GDP growth of both the exogenous shocks and the policy changes that have occurred since 2000. The paper offers, first …, some empirical evidence on real GDP growth in Guinea and then analyzes the sources of growth using the standard framework …

growth from total factor productivity has been minor, while the high population growth poses a significant challenge to …This Selected Issues paper analyzes the underlying sources of growth in Uganda, suggesting that the contribution to …

mineral sector booms and busts, the downward trend in growth rates may reflect other factors. Papua New Guinea’s economy is … more rapid growth. …

This Selected Issues paper analyzes sustaining potential growth in Aruba. As in the other Caribbean countries, there … are growing concerns in Aruba about the slowdown in economic growth over the past two decades and the consequent tepid … outlook for potential growth. Tackling such concerns requires identifying the underlying factors. This paper presents an …

This Selected Issues paper aims at discussing the impact of the oil windfall on Chad, with a focus on growth, poverty … structural factors that constraints the non-oil sector growth, in particular on civil and military services and the microfinance … sector. The paper argues that Chad’s current growth potential is seriously limited by low levels of both human and physical …

. Potential growth will rely more on the pace of capital deepening and productivity growth. Lifting both may require successful …This Selected Issues paper analyzes pace of economic growth for Brazil. Moderating activity and stubbornly elevated … inflation since 2010 have led to a reevaluation of Brazil’s long-term potential growth rate. Growth accounting suggests that …

Like most Sub-Saharan African countries, Kenya’s economic growth appears to have been primarily driven by factor …

The challenge of achieving broad-based growth in Lesotho is discussed. Economic growth is inconsistent. Lesotho is … highly dependent on trade with South Africa. The sources of growth in Lesotho using a social accounting matrix model and a … growth-accounting framework are outlined. The main constraints to growth and private investment and current policy initiative …