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This paper analyzes the links between financial and trade openness and financial development in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. It is based on a panel dataset using methods that tackle slope heterogeneity, cross-sectional dependence and non-stationarity, important econometric problems that...
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We examine the impact of gender equality on electoral violence in Africa using micro-level data from the sixth round of … violence and underscore the urgency of addressing gender inequality in Africa …
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Do growth spells in Africa end because of bad realizations of the same factors that influence growth spells in the rest … spells in Africa and the rest of the world using Bayesian Mode Averaging techniques for proportional hazards models. We …, macroeconomic policy, and sociopolitical factors. Our analysis suggests that determinants of growth spells in Africa are different …
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Africa and its major Regional Economic Communities (RECs). The results of the instrumental variable and panel fixed …-effects estimation show that RTI promotes economic growth in Africa. However, it fosters income divergence, reflecting the distribution …
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The inclusiveness of growth depends on the extent of access to economic and social opportunities. This paper applies the concept of social opportunity function to ascertain the inclusiveness of growth episodes in selected African countries. Premised on the concept of social welfare function,...
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This paper measures the extent to which South African economic growth is an engine of growth in sub-Saharan Africa … substantial positive impact on growth in the rest of Africa, even after controlling for other growth determinants. The estimates …
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This paper presents a novel framework to estimate the elasticity between nighttime lights and quarterly economic activity. The relationship is identified by accounting for varying degrees of measurement errors in nighttime light data across countries. The estimated elasticity is 1.55 for...
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Issues of taxation and development, which have long been a central concern of the IMF, have attracted wider and renewed interest in the last few years. This paper reflects on three broad lessons of experience: that developing countries differ vastly in tax matters, and in ways that are less than...
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We examine determinants of, and interactions between, capital inflows, financial development, and domestic investment in developing countries during 2001-07, a period of surging global liquidity and low interest rates. Reductions in the global price of risk and in domestic borrowing costs were...
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Despite starting as one of the poorest countries in the mid-1980s, Vietnam has achieved rapid developmental progress, reaching lower middle-income status in 2010. In line with rapid economic growth, Vietnam has achieved impressive progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during...
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