Africa at a turning point?
Subtitle: growth, aid, and external shocks
By: edited by Delfin S. Go, John Page.
Contributors: Go, Delfin S.; Page, John M., 1949-
Publisher: World Bank; World Bank Publications
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780821372777
Subjects: Economic development -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Statistics; Economic forecasting -- Africa, Sub-Saharan; Economic stabilization -- Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Economic conditions -- 21st century -- Statistics
Genres: Statistics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Is Africa's economy at a turning point? / Jorge Arbache, Delfin S. Go, and John Page; title: Patterns of long-term growth in Sub-Saharan Africa / Jorge Saba Arbache and John Page; title: Assessing the macroeconomic framework for scaling up foreign aid / Delfin S. Go... [et al.]; title: More and better aid : how are donors doing? / Punam Chuhan-Pole and Brendan Fitzpatrick; title: The macroeconomic dynamics of scaling up foreign aid / Shantayanan Devarajan ... [et al.]; title: Foreign aid, taxes, and government productivity : alternative scenarios for Ethiopia's millennium development goal strategy / Hans Lofgren and Carolina Diaz-Bonilla; title: Beyond aid : new sources and innovative mechanisms for financing development in Sub-Saharan Africa / Dilip Ratha, Sanket Mohapatra, and Sonia Plaza; title: Have external shocks become more important for output fluctuations in Africa countries? / Claudio Raddatz; title: Harnessing oil windfalls for growth in the Africa region / Julia Devlin, Michael Lewin, and Thilakaratna Ranaweera; title: Managing oil revenue volatility in Nigeria : the role of fiscal policy / Nina Budina and Sweder van Wijnbergen; title: Evaluation of the welfare impact of higher energy prices in Madagascar / Noro Andriamihaja and Giovanni Vecchi; title: Economywide and distributional impact of an oil price shock on the South African economy / B. Essama-Nssah... [et al.].