Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s):
Louise Fox
,
Alun Thomas
, and
Cleary Haines
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
07
April
2017
ISBN: 9781475583397
Structural transformation in output and employment in sub-Saharan Africa has become a major concern of development economists. This is because analysis of past trends suggests that while the output transform...
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s):
Louise Fox
,
Alun Thomas
, and
Cleary Haines
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
07
April
2017
ISBN: 9781475583397
Structural transformation has become a widely used macroeconomic measure of the quality of the economic development process.
1
It is widely accepted that in order for it to happen...
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s):
Louise Fox
,
Alun Thomas
, and
Cleary Haines
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
07
April
2017
ISBN: 9781475583397
This chapter uses the previously developed output and employment projections and analyzes what they mean for medium-term structural transformation in sub-Saharan Africa. The methodology for the projections i...
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s):
Louise Fox
,
Alun Thomas
, and
Cleary Haines
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
07
April
2017
ISBN: 9781475583397
Productivity Transformation
The employment and output data were combined to make assessments of the speed of structural adjustment in sub-Saharan Africa compared with Asian countries...
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s):
Tetsuya Konuki
, and
Mauricio Villafuerte
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
24
August
2016
ISBN: 9781513563541
Sub-Saharan African countries have in general run procyclical fiscal policies since 2000. This is not surprising in light of the fact that the majority of them are low-income and/or resource-dependent econom...
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s):
Tetsuya Konuki
, and
Mauricio Villafuerte
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
24
August
2016
ISBN: 9781513563541
This chapter examines the experience of three countries to establish and implement fiscal frameworks aimed at generating financial savings for rainy days: Nigeria, Botswana, and Chile....
Volume: 16
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s):
Tetsuya Konuki
, and
Mauricio Villafuerte
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
24
August
2016
ISBN: 9781513563541
Excessively procyclical fiscal policy can be harmful. This paper investigates to what extent the fiscal policies of sub-Saharan African countries were procyclical in recent years and the reasons for the degree of f...
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s):
Tetsuya Konuki
, and
Mauricio Villafuerte
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
24
August
2016
ISBN: 9781513563541
Excessively procyclical fiscal policy can be harmful. This paper investigates to what extent the fiscal policies of sub-Saharan African countries were procyclical in recent years and the reasons for the degree of f...
Volume: 16
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s):
Tetsuya Konuki
, and
Mauricio Villafuerte
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
24
August
2016
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781513563541.087
ISBN: 9781513563541
Excessively procyclical fiscal policy can be harmful. This paper investigates to what extent the fiscal policies of sub-Saharan African countries were procyclical in recent years and the reasons for the degree of f...
Volume: 17
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s):
Louise Fox
,
Alun Thomas
, and
Cleary Haines
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
07
April
2017
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781475583397.087
ISBN: 9781475583397
This paper provides the most complete analysis of the structural transformation among low- and low-middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa to date....
