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prominent in Africa today, but do or can Africans respond to them with the same elasticity as in the days of 'free' migration …? Our new estimates of net migration and labor market performance for the countries of sub-Saharan Africa suggest that …. In Africa today, economic growth has faltered, its economies have fallen further behind the high-wage OECD leaders, and …
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Various arguments have been used to explain Sub-Saharan Africa's economic decline. We find that a stress on investments … poverty alleviation; and that the constraints imposed by Sub-Saharan Africa's human and physical geography are not core …
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There is considerable debate over the appropriate role for tax policy in developing economies. In one view, tax hikes reduce deficits and ease budgetary pressures, thereby encouraging long-term growth. An alternative view emphasizes the distortionary effects associated with increased taxation...
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Natural resources have driven both growth and conflict in modern Africa. We model the interaction of parties engaged in … illumination across the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, we find evidence confirming each of the model's predictions. Structural …
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experience. In contrast to the East Asian experience, none of the recent growth accelerations in Latin America, Africa, or South … rapid within-sector labor productivity growth (Latin America) or growth-increasing structural change (Africa), but rarely … explain this anomaly by arguing that the forces that promoted structural change in Africa originated on the demand side …
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Africa's recent economic growth is at a historical high. The patterns associated with this growth appear to be quite … of Africa's growth. One thing is clear: the recent growth is not well understood. Against this background, we adapt Lewis …'s (1954) dual-economy model to the economies of Africa to better understand the role that the "in-between" sector as defined …
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Africa's recent growth performance has raised expectations of a bright economic future for the continent after decades … of decline. Yet there is a genuine question about whether Africa's growth can be sustained, and if so, at what level. The …
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We show that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction can be traced to a substantive decline in the share …
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Measures of real consumption based upon the ownership of durable goods, the quality of housing, the health and mortality of children, the education of youth and the allocation of female time in the household indicate that sub-Saharan living standards have, for the past two decades, been growing...
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In the 3 years before the 2008 Financial Crisis, GDP growth in sub Saharan Africa (averaged over individual economies … small, portion of the elevated growth in sub Saharan Africa in the three years before the Financial Crisis and also in the …
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