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 …

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

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 …

We analyze the performance of kernel density methods applied to grouped data to estimate poverty (as applied in Sala …-i-Martin, 2006, QJE). Using Monte Carlo simulations and household surveys, we find that the technique gives rise to biases in poverty … estimates, the sign and magnitude of which vary with the bandwidth, the kernel, the number of datapoints, and across poverty …

Current estimates of global poverty vary substantially across studies. In this paper we undertake a novel sensitivity … analysis to highlight the importance of methodological choices in estimating global poverty. We measure global poverty using … different data sources, parametric and nonparametric estimation methods, and multiple poverty lines. Our results indicate that …

policy programs and their impact on labor market outcomes, inequality, and poverty. The paper illustrates the model …We introduce a new suite of macroeconomic models that extend and complement the Debt, Investment, and Growth (DIG …'s properties by analyzing the growth, debt, and distributional consequences of big-push public investment programs with different …

This paper examines real and financial linkages between Saudi Arabia and other GCC countries. Growth spillovers from …