Are improvements in growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since the mid-1990s sustainable? What types of growth strategies … contribute the most to reducing poverty? This paper examines these questions in four stages. First, it explores the factors … contributing to the post- 1995 improvement in growth. Second, to shed some light on factors associated with substantial jumps in …

swamps remittances, this paper finds that remittances, which are a stable, private transfer, have a direct poverty mitigating … remittances, poverty and financial development. The paper posits that formalizing such flows can serve as an effective access …

This paper demonstrates that high and rising corruption increases income inequality and poverty by reducing economic … growth, the progressivity of the tax system, the level and effectiveness of social spending, and the formation of human … for countries with different growth experiences, at different stages of development, and using various indices of …

The impact of higher petroleum prices on the aggregate price level, real growth, and income distribution is appraised …

trade and TFP growth both over time and across sectors …

growth during periods of private debt deleveraging. The analysis covers 107 countries and 79 episodes of public debt … adjustments can dampen growth when there are credit supply restrictions. Instead, fiscal adjustments that are gradual and rely on …, protecting public investment is critical for medium-term growth, as is the implementation of supply-side, productivity …

We examine the effects of aid on growth-- in cross-sectional and panel data--after correcting for the bias that aid … evidence of a positive (or negative) relationship between aid inflows into a country and its economic growth. We also find no …: what aspects of aid offset what ought to be the indisputable growth enhancing effects of resource transfers? Thus, our …