Sustaining and accelerating pro-poor growth in Africa /
Growth in sub-Saharan Africa has shown recent signs of improvement, but is still short of levels needed to attain the Millennium Development Goals. Economists have placed increasing emphasis on understanding the policies that promote sustained jumps in medium-term growth, and the paper applies this...
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Washington, DC :
International Monetary Fund,
c2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Explaining differences in growth performance: Understanding the post-1995 improvement in growth ; Identifying strong and weak growth performers
- Growth accelerations: Identification and bivariate correlates of accelerations ; What is different about acceleration episodes? ; What triggers an acceleration? ; What sustains an acceleration? ; Summary
- Policies, institutions, and growth in sub-Saharan Africa: Fiscal policy ; Financial development ; Institutions
- Pro-poor growth: Meaning and importance of pro-poor growth ; Channels of pro-poor growth ; Summary ; Conclusion.