policy toward sub-Saharan Africa. Has AGOA fulfilled its promise to serve as a catalyst for African economic development? The … Textiles and Clothing and China's accession to the WTO, the article considers AGOA's effect on Africa's nascent textile and …

Commodity price shocks are an important type of external shock and are often cited as a problem for economic growth in … sub-Saharan Africa. This paper quantifies the impact of agricultural commodity price shocks using a near vector … definition of a price shock that allows us to determine whether the response of per capita Gross domestic product (GDP) growth in …