This paper examines the growth-inflation nexus in Franc zone currency unions. It aims at estimating the inflation … threshold above which additional inflationary pressures adversely affect economic expansion. It uses cointegration methods that … African Monetary Union and 4.3-4.5 percent in the West African Monetary Union. Homogeneous cointegration panel data analyses …

Ethiopia has achieved sustained high growth for more than a decade. At the same time, the country has been facing … several economic challenges, including falling exports, chronic foreign currency shortages, as well as a slow pace of … stimulates exports in general and manufacturing exports in particular, improves the trade and current account balances, and spurs …

-oriented growth agenda that puts a premium on raising exports and making countries more attractive to people, not just capital. The …This paper reviews the determinants of Latin America's uneven growth based on an accounting decomposition that breaks … down countries' growth (relative to the world) into three trade-related channels: (i) an export pull measuring the traction …

, public expenditure, real exchange rate changes, gross domestic product growth relative to the rest of the world, trade … established in Turkey, driven by an expansion of credit to households and rapid gross domestic product growth, coupled with …

The empirical evidence on within firm productivity improvements from exports has largely been understated because the …-in-differences matching estimator. The findings show that, over a six-year period, the difference in productivity growth between export … growth is decomposed into two channels. About 15 percent of the difference in productivity growth is explained by higher …

exports and set the stage for China's increases in domestic value added and reduction in China's involvement in global … growth by at most 6 percentage points between 1997 and 2005. This effect is substantial, but not as large as suggested by the … difference between the pre- and post-accession export growth rates in the four years before and after accession. This is because …

The Arab Republic of Egypt is yet to meet its exports potential, which has been historically hampered by several … export performance. This paper analyzes Egypt's exports along three dimensions that are key for export performance and future … growth: (i) composition and relatedness of exported products; (ii) geographic and product concentration; and (iii …