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Sustaining and Accelerating Pro-Poor Growth in Africa »
Series: IMF Special Issues
Author(s): Kevin Carey , Sanjeev Gupta , and Catherine Pattillo
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 February 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589064942.058
ISBN: 9781589064942
Keywords: Economic growth, Poverty, pro-poor growth, pro-poor, growth rates, tfp, real gdp
Growth in sub-Saharan Africa has recently shown signs of improvement, but is still short of levels needed to attain the Millennium Development Goals. Economists have placed increasing emphasis on understanding the...

India »
Source: India : Is the Rising Tide Lifting All Boats?
Volume/Issue: 2008/54
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Petia Topalova
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 March 2008
ISBN: 9781451869163
Keywords: inequality, consumption growth, growth rate, growth rates, pro-poor growth,
While many have celebrated India's accelerating economic growth, some have expressed concern about the distributional impacts of the growth process. Cognizant of the vulnerability of its large population below pove...

CHAPTER 3. Growth Accelerations »
Source: Sustaining and Accelerating Pro-Poor Growth in Africa
Series: IMF Special Issues
Author(s): Kevin Carey , Sanjeev Gupta , and Catherine Pattillo
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 February 2006
ISBN: 9781589064942
Keywords: Economic growth, Poverty, pro-poor growth, pro-poor, growth rates, tfp, real gdp
Very large and sustained increases in growth rates are necessary if sub-Saharan Africa is to have a realistic prospect of halving income poverty by the year 2015. To meet the poverty Millennium Development G...

CHAPTER 6. Conclusion »
Source: Sustaining and Accelerating Pro-Poor Growth in Africa
Series: IMF Special Issues
Author(s): Kevin Carey , Sanjeev Gupta , and Catherine Pattillo
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 February 2006
ISBN: 9781589064942
Keywords: Economic growth, Poverty, pro-poor growth, pro-poor, growth rates, tfp, real gdp
Improvements in macroeconomic policies contributed strongly to the recovery of the fastest-growing economies of the 1990s and were strongest for countries with on-track IMF-supported programs. More favorable...

Appendix »
Source: Sustaining and Accelerating Pro-Poor Growth in Africa
Series: IMF Special Issues
Author(s): Kevin Carey , Sanjeev Gupta , and Catherine Pattillo
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 February 2006
ISBN: 9781589064942
Keywords: Economic growth, Poverty, pro-poor growth, pro-poor, growth rates, tfp, real gdp
Table A1. Subgroups of Countries Oil-Producing Cou...

CHAPTER 4. Policies, Institutions, and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa »
Source: Sustaining and Accelerating Pro-Poor Growth in Africa
Series: IMF Special Issues
Author(s): Kevin Carey , Sanjeev Gupta , and Catherine Pattillo
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 February 2006
ISBN: 9781589064942
Keywords: Economic growth, Poverty, pro-poor growth, pro-poor, growth rates, tfp, real gdp
Some additional examination is warranted of selected policies that the growth acceleration analysis could not probe deeply. Although many countries’ fiscal policies have improved, they still face major chall...

CHAPTER 1. Introduction »
Source: Sustaining and Accelerating Pro-Poor Growth in Africa
Series: IMF Special Issues
Author(s): Kevin Carey , Sanjeev Gupta , and Catherine Pattillo
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 February 2006
ISBN: 9781589064942
Keywords: Economic growth, Poverty, pro-poor growth, pro-poor, growth rates, tfp, real gdp
Are improvements in growth in sub-Saharan Africa since the mid-1990s sustainable? What types of growth strategies contribute the most to reducing poverty? This paper examines these questions in four stages....

CHAPTER 2. Explaining Differences in Growth Performance »
Source: Sustaining and Accelerating Pro-Poor Growth in Africa
Series: IMF Special Issues
Author(s): Kevin Carey , Sanjeev Gupta , and Catherine Pattillo
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 February 2006
ISBN: 9781589064942
Keywords: Economic growth, Poverty, pro-poor growth, pro-poor, growth rates, tfp, real gdp
A. Understanding the Post-1995 Improvement in Growth The stylized facts of growth during 1960–2003 are sobering. For the region as a whole, real GDP grew at an average rate of 3.7 pe...

CHAPTER 5. Pro-Poor Growth »
Source: Sustaining and Accelerating Pro-Poor Growth in Africa
Series: IMF Special Issues
Author(s): Kevin Carey , Sanjeev Gupta , and Catherine Pattillo
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 February 2006
ISBN: 9781589064942
Keywords: Economic growth, Poverty, pro-poor growth, pro-poor, growth rates, tfp, real gdp
Policymakers are justifiably concerned about the relationship between economic growth and the distribution of income and, in particular, about the impact of growth on the incomes of individuals living below...

Sustaining Growth Accelerations and Pro-Poor Growth in Africa »
Source: Sustaining Growth Accelerations and Pro-Poor Growth in Africa
Volume/Issue: 2005/195
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Sanjeev Gupta , Catherine Pattillo , and Kevin Carey
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 October 2005
ISBN: 9781451862140
Keywords: growth, growth accelerations, pro-poor growth, pro-poor, growth rates, tfp, real gdp, Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development, Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General, Economywide Country Studies: Africa
Are improvements in growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since the mid-1990s sustainable? What types of growth strategies contribute the most to reducing poverty? This paper examines these questions in four stages. F...