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Trade Integration, Export Patterns, and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Calderón, César - 2020
This paper examines systematically the growth effects of trade integration in Sub-Saharan Africa. It complements and … improves upon the empirical literature in two aspects: first, it jointly estimates the impact of different dimensions of trade … integration, namely, trade volumes, export/trade patterns by product (primary and manufacturing goods), and by destination (inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842774
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Accounting for Gender Production from a Growth Accounting Framework in Sub-Saharan Africa
Fofack, Hippolyte - 2017
This paper draws on an expanded growth accounting framework to estimate the relative contribution of women to growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Empirical results show a consistently positive contribution of women to growth in gross domestic product in the region, both during economic downturns and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975083
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Do Capital Inflows Boost Growth in Developing Countries? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Calderón, César - 2017
This paper examines whether domestic output growth helps attract capital inflows and, in turn, capital inflows help boost output growth in a set of 38 Sub-Saharan African countries. Using a two-step approach to address reverse causality and omitted variable issues, the paper finds that output...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971630
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Sub-Saharan Africa's Recent Growth Spurt : An Analysis of the Sources of Growth
Cho, Yoonyoung - 2017
Since the mid-1990s, Sub-Saharan Africa has experienced unprecedented levels of high economic growth. A key question follows: What accounts for the turnaround of the growth performance in the mid-1990s? The answer can provide insight into whether the recent growth spurt in Sub-Saharan Africa is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973251
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Long-Run Growth in Ghana : Determinants and Prospects
Herrera, Santiago - 2017
Ghana's economic growth picked up in the early 2000s and has been exceptionally strong over the past few years, with price booms of its main commodity exports, gold and cocoa, and the initiation of commercial oil production in 2011. This paper examines recent econometric evidence on Ghana's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972474
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Trade Integration and Growth : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Calderón, César - 2019
This paper examines the growth effects of different dimensions of international trade integration -- notably, volume … foreign 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869975
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China's Slowdown and Rebalancing : Potential Growth and Poverty Impacts on Sub-Saharan Africa
Lakatos, Csilla - 2017
along by rebalancing through higher overall imports by China and positive terms of trade effects for its trading partners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969296
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Diversification, Growth, and Volatility in Asia
Papageorgiou, Chris - 2017
Economic development critically involves diversification and structural transformation?that is, the continued, dynamic reallocation of resources from less productive to more productive sectors and activities. This paper documents that, over an extended period, developing Asia has on average been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971321
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Distortions to Agriculture and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Anderson, Kym - 2017
To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa's slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974965
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Trade Causes Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Brückner, Markus - 2017
In the 1990s the mainstream consensus was that trade causes growth. Subsequent research shed doubt on the consensus … view, as evidence suggested that the identification of the effect of trade on growth was problematic in the existing … openness to international trade on economic growth with panel data. Employing instrumental variables techniques that correct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975341