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 …

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 …

This paper documents the steady increase in intraregional trade in sub-Saharan Africa since 1980, links this rise to …-wide integration and the associated growth spillovers are discussed. Actions policymakers in sub-Saharan Africa can take to capture the …

Economic stagnation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has led several economists to question the region’s ability to attain …

This paper attempts to identify robust patterns of cross-country growth behavior in the world as a whole and Africa. It … growth around the world is, in principle, also good for growth in Africa; and (iii) political and institutional variables are …

What role does China play in Africa''s development? What drives China''s increasing economic involvement in the … government policies, markets for each other''s exports, Africa''s demand for infrastructure, and differences in China''s approach … to financing have together moved commercial activities-trade and investment-to the center of China-Africa economic …

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 …