This paper examines the growth-inflation nexus in Franc zone currency unions. It aims at estimating the inflation …

This paper documents that structural change positively contributed to labor productivity growth in Guinea during 2006 …-15. However, the contribution of structural change to productivity growth was modest (about one percentage point per year on … of structural change to productivity growth has declined over time, mainly due to the increased labor market rigidity …

This paper examines the growth effects of different dimensions of international trade integration-notably, volume … trade dimensions for the region and the traditional sources of growth. Second, it empirically estimates the impact of trade … integration on growth per worker and the sources of growth; that is, growth of capital per worker and total factor productivity …

Ethiopia has achieved sustained high growth for more than a decade. At the same time, the country has been facing … economic growth. Currency undervaluation is a second-best policy intervention that can help offset some of the key constraints … to manufacturing growth prevalent in low-income countries and speed up structural transformation. However, exchange rate …

the average rate of economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa has not only been significantly lower than that in …