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Go, Delfin S. - 2008

In this paper, Arbache, Go, and Page examine the recent acceleration of growth in Africa. Unlike the past, the …

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On Financial Development and Economic Growth in the Arab Republic of Egypt

Mohieldin, Mahmoud Safwat - 2019

This paper discusses the evolution of the Egyptian banking sector and the main trends in financial development in the Arab Republic of Egypt. The paper examines empirically the relationship between the development of the financial sector and economic growth in Egypt between 1980 and 2016. It...

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Agriculture, Aid and Economic Growth in Africa

McArthur, John - 2018

How can foreign aid to agriculture support economic growth in Africa? This paper constructs a geographically …

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Job Growth and Finance : Are Some Financial Institutions Better Suited to Early Stages of Development than Others?

Cull, Robert J. - 2017

This paper combines firm-level data from 89 countries with updated country-level data on financial structure, and uses two estimation approaches. It finds that in low-income countries, labor growth is swifter in countries with a higher level of private credit/gross domestic product; the positive...

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Explaining the WAEMU Growth Spurt -- The Role of Financial Deepening and Macro Policy

Gebregziabher, Fiseha Haile - 2018

Most countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) experienced a growth acceleration in 2011-17. This paper identifies the determinants of this growth by combining country-specific information with the results of a cross-country regression model. Growth was characterized by...

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Finance and Economic Development : Policy Choices for Developing Countries

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2016

- varies sharply around the world, with large differences among countries at similar levels of income. This paper argues that …

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Structural Transformation and Productivity Growth in Africa : Uganda in the 2000s

Ahmed, Sabin - 2017

Uganda?s economy underwent significant structural change in the 2000s whereby the share of non-tradable services in aggregate employment rose by about 7 percentage points at the expense of the production of tradable goods. The process also involved a 12-percentage-point shift in employment away...

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Bright Lights, Big Cities : Measuring National and Subnational Economic Growth in Africa from Outer Space, with an Application to Kenya and Rwanda

Bundervoet, Tom - 2017

This paper uses the night lights (satellite imagery from outer space) approach to estimate growth in and levels of subnational 2013 gross domestic product for 47 counties in Kenya and 30 districts in Rwanda. Estimating subnational gross domestic product is consequential for three reasons. First,...

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The Contribution of African Women to Economic Growth and Development in Post-Colonial Africa : Historical Perspectives and Policy Implications

Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku - 2017

growth and economic development in post-colonial Africa. The paper investigates the paradox of increased female enrollment in …

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The Contribution of African Women to Economic Growth and Development : Historical Perspectives and Policy Implications -- Part I: The Pre-Colonial and Colonial Periods

Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku - 2017

's economic marginalization in Sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial period to the end of colonial rule. It is not that women … even in kinship structures in pre-colonial Africa, utilizing the concepts of "rights in persons" and "wealth in people …." Reviewing the processes of production and reproduction, it explains why most slaves in pre-colonial Africa were women and …

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