-to-date information about the cyclical stage of the global economy and of major emerging and developing regions including Africa …

, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper …

This paper investigates the relationship between trade policy and growth using a dynamic panel regression model with … specification for growth thus includes as an explanatory variable an interaction term between trade barriers and initial income … which the marginal impact of tariffs on growth is declining in initial income. In particular, for low-income countries …

turn looks for engines of sustained growth. We use a micro-founded macroeconomic model calibrated to Greece. Our …

East Africa the recent export growth was driven by new entrants rather than incumbent firms whose competitiveness might …) products for less developed countries in 1997 and the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in 2001 are used to assess … countries. The illusion of sustained African apparel exports is created by late-bloomers in East Africa offsetting boom …

scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa …