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Structural Transformation in Employment and Productivity: What Can Africa Hope For? »
Source: Structural Transformation in Employment and Productivity : What Can Africa Hope For?
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
ISBN: 9781475583397
Keywords: Employment, Productivity, Structural adjustment, Structural transformation, Sub Saharan Africa
This paper provides the most complete analysis of the structural transformation among low- and low-middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa to date....
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 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...
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 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...
Back Matter »
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 paper provides the most complete analysis of the structural transformation among low- and low-middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa to date....
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
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781513597331.086
ISBN: 9781513597331
Keywords: Sub-Saharan Africa; commodity exporters; oil-exporting countries; competitiveness; trade integration; income inequality; gender inequality
Growth in sub-Saharan Africa has weakened after more than a decade of solid growth, although this overall outlook masks considerable variation across the region. Some countries have been negatively affected by fall...
Regional Economic Outlook, October 2015 : Sub-Saharan Africa »
Series: Regional Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 October 2015
Language: French
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781513562490.086
ISBN: 9781513562490
Keywords: Sub-Saharan Africa; commodity exporters; oil-exporting countries; competitiveness; trade integration; income inequality; gender inequality
Growth in sub-Saharan Africa has weakened after more than a decade of solid growth, although this overall outlook masks considerable variation across the region. Some countries have been negatively affected by fall...
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...
3. To What Extent Has the Fiscal Policy Been Procyclical among Sub-Saharan African Countries? »
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,
The Business Cycle in Sub-Saharan Africa First, this chapter illustrates the stylized facts of the business cycle dynamics among sub-Saharan African countries in recent years. While...