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Aid, political business cycles and growth in Africa
Chiripanhura, Blessing M.; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2014
This paper develops a model of opportunistic behaviour in which an incumbent government resort to expansionary fiscal and/or monetary stimuli to foster economic growth and thus, maximize the probability of re-election. Using a panel dataset of 51 African countries covering the period 1980 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010425074
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Financial liberalization and its implications for private savings in sub-Saharan Africa
Asiedu, Elizabeth; Asiseh, Fafanyo; Mannah-Blankson, Theresa - 2022
savings in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with a focus on the effect of financial liberalization on private savings. It also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013279902
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The tax elasticity of formal work in African countries
McKay, Andrew D.; Pirttilä, Jukka; Schimanski, Caroline - 2019
A key policy problem in most developing countries is the size of the informal sector and its persistence over time. In need to increase their tax revenues, policy makers face a trade-off between decreasing tax rates (making formalizing potentially more attractive) and alternatively raising tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012109882
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Aid to Africa : the changing context
Addison, Tony; Singhal, Saurabh; Tarp, Finn - 2013
To continue its economic growth and create new and better livelihoods, Africa must transform the productive side of its …, but also new risks as Africa's integration with the global economy evolves. Climate change is impacting productive sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225330
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The African lions : Kenya country case study
Kimenyi, Mwangi S.; Mwega, Francis M.; Ndung'u, Njuguna S. - 2015
that Kenya, as the ninth largest economy in Africa and the fourth largest in sub-Saharan Africa and with a locational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411141
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Does lack of innovation and absorptive capacity retard economic growth in Africa?
Onyeiwu, Steve - 2011
-country regressions covering 31 Sub-Saharan African countries suggest that growth in Africa is not simply a question of capital … ; absorptive capacity ; technology ; Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008908332
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Tourism and economic growth : African evidence from panel vector autoregressive framework
Seetanah, Boopen; Padachi, Kessevan; Rojid, Sawkut - 2011
. -- tourism ; economic growth ; Africa ; panel vector autoregression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153221
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Aid effectiveness : opening the black box
Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2011
Controversy over the aggregate impact of foreign aid has focused on reduced form estimates of the aid-growth link. The causal chain, through which aid affects developmental outcomes including growth, has received much less attention. We address this gap by: (i) specifying a structural model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009260998
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Thirty years in Africa's development : from structural adjustment to structural transformation?
Addison, Tony - 2015
Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has … of diversification in Africa's economies-in contrast to Asia's success stories. Structural adjustment did not change the … manufacturing and service clusters, Africa is yet to follow East Asia in integrating with the global economy in ways that add value …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396968
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Assessing foreign aid's long-run contribution to growth in development
Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2013
This paper confirms recent evidence of a positive impact of aid on growth and widens the scope of evaluation to a range of outcomes including proximate sources of growth (e.g., physical and human capital), indicators of social welfare (e.g., poverty and infant mortality), and measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767897