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Chapter 4. Conclusion »
Source: Structural Transformation in Employment and Productivity : What Can Africa Hope For?
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
Keywords: Employment, Productivity, Structural adjustment, Structural transformation, Sub Saharan Africa
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...
Chapter 1. Output, Demographic, and Employment Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia »
Source: Structural Transformation in Employment and Productivity : What Can Africa Hope For?
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
Keywords: Employment, Productivity, Structural adjustment, Structural transformation, Sub Saharan Africa
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...
Chapter 3. Projecting Output, Employment, and Productivity Forward through 2020 »
Source: Structural Transformation in Employment and Productivity : What Can Africa Hope For?
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
Keywords: Employment, Productivity, Structural adjustment, Structural transformation, Sub Saharan Africa
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...
Chapter 2. Transformation and Productivity: Comparison with Asia »
Source: Structural Transformation in Employment and Productivity : What Can Africa Hope For?
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
Keywords: Employment, Productivity, Structural adjustment, Structural transformation, Sub Saharan Africa
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...
2. Competitiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa: Marking Time or Moving Ahead? »
Source: Regional Economic Outlook, October 2015 : Sub-Saharan Africa
Series: Regional Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 27 October 2015
ISBN: 9781513597331
Keywords: Sub-Saharan Africa; commodity exporters; oil-exporting countries; competitiveness; trade integration; income inequality; gender inequality
In recent years the sub-Saharan African region has experienced strong real GDP growth and substantial trade integration. However, growth in sub-Saharan Africa’s trade volumes has not kept up with growth in t...
6. Conclusions »
Source: Cyclical Behavior of Fiscal Policy among Sub-Saharan African Countries
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s): Tetsuya Konuki , and Mauricio Villafuerte
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 24 August 2016
ISBN: 9781513563541
Keywords: Fiscal analysis, Fiscal policy, Cyclical indicators, Sub-Saharan Africa, Oil exporting states, fiscal policy, sub-saharan Africa, oil exporters, financial markets,
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...
5. Country Case Studies »
Source: Cyclical Behavior of Fiscal Policy among Sub-Saharan African Countries
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s): Tetsuya Konuki , and Mauricio Villafuerte
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 24 August 2016
ISBN: 9781513563541
Keywords: Fiscal analysis, Fiscal policy, Cyclical indicators, Sub-Saharan Africa, Oil exporting states, fiscal policy, sub-saharan Africa, oil exporters, financial markets,
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....
Cyclical Behavior of Fiscal Policy among Sub-Saharan African Countries »
Source: Cyclical Behavior of Fiscal Policy among Sub-Saharan African Countries
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
Keywords: Fiscal analysis, Fiscal policy, Cyclical indicators, Sub-Saharan Africa, Oil exporting states, fiscal policy, sub-saharan Africa, oil exporters, financial markets,
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...
Back Matter »
Source: Cyclical Behavior of Fiscal Policy among Sub-Saharan African Countries
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s): Tetsuya Konuki , and Mauricio Villafuerte
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 24 August 2016
ISBN: 9781513563541
Keywords: Fiscal analysis, Fiscal policy, Cyclical indicators, Sub-Saharan Africa, Oil exporting states, fiscal policy, sub-saharan Africa, oil exporters, financial markets,
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...
1. Dealing with the Gathering Clouds »
Source: Regional Economic Outlook, October 2015 : Sub-Saharan Africa
Series: Regional Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 27 October 2015
ISBN: 9781513597331
Keywords: Sub-Saharan Africa; commodity exporters; oil-exporting countries; competitiveness; trade integration; income inequality; gender inequality
Economic activity in sub-Saharan Africa has weakened markedly. To be sure, growth—at 3¾ percent this year and 4¼ percent in 2016—still remains higher than in many other emerging and developing regions of the...