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China's impacts on SSA through the lens of growth and exports
Mu, Yibin; Wang, Chu; Wu, Dong - 2017
The analysis of China's impacts on the 44 SSA countries reveals that: (i) after joining the WTO in 2001, China has … started to impact significantly on SSA growth: one-percent increase in China's GDP per capita leads to 0.02 percent increase … on the SSA's GDP per capita; (ii) oil and investment-goods exporters benefit more from China's growth; (iii) compared to …
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Post-Covid-19 recovery and resilience : leveraging reforms for growth and inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
Hong, Gee Hee; Igan, Deniz; Lee, Do - 2021
Covid-19 has exacerbated economic and social vulnerabilities across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). There is a risk that growth could be lower for longer, with a setback to development. Post-pandemic reforms thus become even more important, especially with constrained scope for fiscal and monetary...
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Economic Trends in Africa : The Economic Performance of Sub-Saharan African Countries
Ballali, Daudi - 1994
This paper highlights selected recent developments in the economies of sub-Saharan Africa. It notes that the outlook for commodity prices has improved, and with it the outlook for economic activity beyond 1994; it also notes, however, the need for higher savings and investment to sustain growth over...
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Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ghura, Dhaneshwar - 1995
The paper investigates empirically the determinants of economic growth for a large sample of sub-Saharan African countries during 1981-92. The results indicate that (i) an increase in private investment has a relatively large positive impact on per capita growth; (ii) growth is stimulated by...
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Economic Trends in Africa : The Economic Performance of Sub-Saharan African Countries
Dhonte, Pierre - 1993
This paper surveys recent economic developments in countries in the African Department. In the aggregate, output growth continues to be sluggish, and it is expected that half of the countries will experience a declining income per capita in 1993. However, structural adjustment is making fast...
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The heavy economic toll of gender-based violence : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Ouedraogo, Rasmane; Stenzel, David - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns have led to a rise in gender-based violence. In this paper, we explore the economic consequences of violence against women in sub-Saharan Africa using large demographic and health survey data collected pre-pandemic. Relying on a two-stage least square method...
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Domestic amplifiers of external shocks : growth accelerations and reversals in emerging market and developing economies
Gruss, Bertrand; Nabar, Malhar; Poplawski-Ribeiro, Marcos - 2019
External conditions have been found to influence the tendency of emerging market and developing economies to experience episodes of growth accelerations and reversals. In this paper we study the role of domestic policies and other structural attributes in amplifying or mitigating the effect that...
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The economic consequences of conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
Fang, Xiangming; Kothari, Siddharth; McLoughlin, Cameron; … - 2020
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Institutions Rule : The Primacy of Institutions Over Integration and Geography in Economic Development
Subramanian, Arvind - 2002
We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining cross-country income levels using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of institutions ""trumps"" everything else. Controlling for...
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Inequality in financial inclusion and income inequality
Aslan, Goksu; Deléchat, Corinne; Newiak, Monique; Yang, Fan - 2017
We investigate the link between gender inequality in financial inclusion and income inequality, with three contributions to the recent literature. First, using a micro-dataset covering 146,000 individuals in over 140 countries, we construct novel, synthetic indices of the intensity of financial...
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