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Publications of the IMF African Department, 2009–11
| 2009 | |
| The Impact of the GlobalFinancial Crisis on Sub-Saharan Africa | African Department |
| Tanzania: The Story of an African Transition | Nord, Roger, Yuri Sobolev, David Dunn, Alejandro Hajdenberg, Niko Hobdari, Samar Maziad, and Stephane Roudet |
| 11/04 South Africa: Macro Policy Mix and Its Effects on Growth and the Real Exchange Rate—Empirical Evidence and GIMF Simulations | Canales Kriljenko, Jorge Ivan |
| 11/02 Measuring the Potential Output of South Africa | Klein, Nir |
| 11/01 In the Wake of the Global Economic Crisis: Adjusting to Lower Revenue of the Southern African Customs Union in Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland | Mongardini, Joannes, Dalmacio Benicio, Thomson Fontaine, Gonzalo C. Pastor, and Geneviève Verdier |
| 10/03 Zimbabwe: Challenges and Policy Options after Hyperinflation | Kramarenko, Vitaliy, Lars H. Engstrom, Genevieve Verdier, Gilda Fernandez, Stefan E. Oppers, Richard Hughes, James McHugh, and Warren L. Coats |
| 10/02 Expenditure Composition and Economic Developments in Benin | Pani, Marco, and Mohamed El Harrak |
| 10/01 Wage Policy and Fiscal Sustainability in Benin | Lundgren, Charlotte J. |
| 09/04 The Global Financial Crisis and Adjustments to Shocks in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda: A Balance Sheet Analysis Perspective | Masha, Iyabo |
| 09/03 Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Exchange Rates and Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa | Ben Ltaifa, Nabil, Stella Kaendera, and Shiv Dixit |
| 09/02 Spillover Effects and the East African Community: Explaining the Slowdown and the Recovery | Drummond, Paulo, and Gustavo Ramirez |
| 09/01 Foreign Exchange Reserve Adequacy in East African Community Countries | Drummond, Paulo, Aristide Mrema, Stephane Roudet, and Mika Saito |
| 09/20 The International Financial Crisis and Global Recession: Impact on the CEMAC Region and Policy Considerations | Wakeman-Linn, John, Rafael A. Portillo, Plamen Iossifov, and Dimitre Millkov |
| 09/16 The Global Financial Crisis: Impact on WAEMU Member Countries and Policy Options | Mueller, Johannes, Irene Yackovlev, and Hans Weisfeld |
| 09/14 The Southern African Development Community’s Macroeconomic Convergence Program: Initial Performance | Burgess, Robert |
| 09/10 Fiscal Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa in Response to the Impact of the Global Crisis | Berg Andrew, Norbert Funke, Alejandro Hajdenberg, Victor Duarte Lledo, Rolando Ossowski, Martin Schindler, Antonio Spilimbergo, Shamsuddin Tareq, and Irene Yackovlev |
| 11/207 External Sustainability of Oil-Producing Sub-Saharan African Countries | Takebe, Misa, and Robert C. York |
| 11/205 The Cyclicality of Fiscal Policies in the CEMAC Region | Mpatswe, Gaston K., Sampawende J. Tapsoba, and Robert C. York |
| 11/204 South Africa: The Cyclical Behavior of the Markups and Its Implications for Monetary Policy | Klein, Nir |
| 11/202 Burkina Faso—Policies to Protect the Poor from the Impact of Food and Energy Price Increases | Arze del Granado, Javier, and Isabell Adenauer |
| 11/198 De Jure versus De Facto Exchange Rate Regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa | Slavov, Slavi T. |
| 11/196 Financial Deepening, Property Rights and Poverty: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa | Singh, Raju Jan, and Yifei Huang |
| 11/178 FDI from BRICs to LICs: Emerging Growth Driver? | Mlachila, Montfort, and Misa Takebe |
| 11/176 Determinants of Interest Rate Pass-Through: Do Macroeconomic Conditions and Financial Market Structure Matter? | Gigineishvili, Nikoloz |
| 11/174 The Quest for Higher Growth in the WAEMU Region: The Role of Accelerations and Decelerations | Kinda, Tidiane, and Montfort Mlachila |
| 11/172 Fiscal Policy Implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa | Lledo, Victor Duarte, and Marcos Poplawski Ribeiro |
| 11/149 Post-conflict Recovery: Institutions, Aid, or Luck? | David, Antonio, Fabiano Rodrigues Bastos, and Marshall Mills |
| 11/104 Ghana: Will It Be Gifted or Will It Be Cursed? | Aydin, Burcu |
| 11/102 Oil Spill(over)s: Linkages in Petroleum Product Pricing Policies in West African Countries | David, Antonio, Mohamed El Harrak, Marshall Mills, and Lorraine Ocampos |
| 11/80 Feeling the Elephant’s Weight: The Impact of Cote d’lvoire’s Crisis on WAEMU Trade | Egoumé-Bossogo, Philippe, and Ankouvi Nayo |
| 11/73 ICT, Financial Inclusion, and Growth Evidence from African Countries | Andrianaivo, Mihasonirina, and Kangni Kpodar |
| 11/69 Fiscal Sustainability and the Fiscal Reaction Function for South Africa | Burger, Philippe, Alfredo Cuevas, Ian Stuart, and Charl Jooste |
| 11/64 Reviving the Competitive Storage Model: A Holistic Approach to Food Commodity Prices | Miao, Yanliang, Weifeng Wu, and Norbert Funke |
| 11/59 Inflation Uncertainty and Relative Price Variability in WAEMU | Fernandez Valdovinos, Carlos, and Kerstin Gerling |
| 11/57 Modeling Inflation in Chad | Kinda, Tidiane |
| 11/48 Fiscal Expectations under the Stability and Growth Pact: Evidence from Survey Data | Poplawski-Ribeiro, Marcos, and Jan-Christoph Rulke |
| 11/40 Growth in Africa under Peace and Market Reforms | Korbut, Olessia, Gonzalo Salinas, and Cheikh A. Gueye |
| 11/9 Capital Flows, Exchange Rate Flexibility, and the Real Exchange Rate | Kinda, Tidiane, Jean-Louis Combes, and Patrick Plane |
| 10/292 Weathering the Global Storm: The Benefits of Monetary Policy Reform in the LA5 Countries | Canales Kriljenko, Jorge Iván, Luis Ignacio Jacome, Ali Alichi, and Ivan Luis de Oliveira Lima |
| 10/217 Performance of Fiscal Accounts in South Africa in a Cross-Country Setting | Aydin, Burcu |
| 10/216 Cyclicality of Revenue and Structural Balances in South Africa | Aydin, Burcu |
| 10/210 Mother, Can I Trust the Government? Sustained Financial Deepening—A Political Institutions View | Quintyn, Marc, and Genevieve Verdier |
| 10/195 Islamic Banking: How Has It Diffused? | Imam, Patrick A., and Kangni Kpodar |
| 10/191 A Macro Model of the Credit Channel in a Currency Union Member: The Case of Benin | Samake, Issouf |
| 10/166 How Do International Financial Flows to Developing Countries Respond to Natural Disasters? | David, Antonio |
| 10/162 Exchange Rate Assessment for Sub-Saharan Economies | Aydin, Burcu |
| 10/148 Balance Sheet Vulnerabilities of Mauritius during a Decade of Shocks | Imam, Patrick A., and Rainer Koehler |
| 10/140 Beyond Aid: How Much Should African Countries Pay to Borrow? | Gueye, Cheikh A., and Amadou N.R. Sy |
| 10/136 Banking Efficiency and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa | Kablan, Sandrine |
| 10/132 FDI Flows to Low-Income Countries: Global Drivers and Growth Implications | Dabla-Norris, Era, Jiro Honda, Amina Lahrèché-Revil, and Genevieve Verdier |
| 10/118 The Linkage between the Oil and Nonoil Sectors—A Panel VAR Approach | Klein, Nir |
| 10/115 Short-versus Long-Term Credit and Economic Performance: Evidence from the WAEMU | Kpodar, Kangni, and Kodzo Gbenyo |
| 10/80 Budget Institutions and Fiscal Performance in Low-Income Countries | Dabla-Norris, Era, Richard Allen, Luis-Felipe Zanna, Tej Prakash, Eteri Kvintradze, Victor Duarte Lledo, Irene Yackovlev, and Sophia Gollwitzer |
| 10/66 ICT Equipment Investment and Growth in Low-and Lower-Middle-Income Countries | Haacker, Markus |
| 10/58 The Real Exchange Rate and Growth Revisited: The Washington Consensus Strikes Back? | Berg, Andrew, and Yanliang Miao |
| 10/49 Firm Productivity, Innovation, and Financial Development | Dabla-Norris, Era, Eramus Kersting, and Genévieve Verdier |
| 09/274 Cyclical Patterns of Government Expenditures in Sub-Saharan Africa: Facts and Factors | Lledo, Victor, Irene Yackovlev, and Lucie Gadenne |
| 09/269 A Framework to Assess the Effectiveness of IMF Technical Assistance in National Accounts | Pastor, Gonzalo C. |
| 09/260 Improving Surveillance across the CEMAC Region | Iossifov, Plamen, Noriaki Kinoshita, Misa Takebe, Robert C. York, and Zaijin Zhan |
| 09/244 A Rule Based Medium-Term Fiscal Policy Framework for Tanzania | Kim, Daehaeng, and Mika Saito |
| 09/227 Analyzing Fiscal Space Using the MAMS Model: An Application to Burkina Faso | Gottschalk, Jan, Vu Manh Le, Hans Lofgren, and Kofi Nouve |
| 09/216 Determinants and Macroeconomic Impact of Remittances in Sub-Saharan Africa | Singh, Raju Jan, Markus Haacker, and Kyung-woo Lee |
| 09/215 São Tomé and Príncipe: Domestic Tax System and Tax Revenue Potential | Farhan, Nisreen |
| 09/192 The Gambia: Demand for Broad Money and Implications for Monetary Policy Conduct | Sriram, Subramanian S. |
| 09/182 Understanding the Growth of African Markets | Yartey, Charles Amo, and Mihasonirina Andrianaivo |
| 09/180 Credit Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa—Sources, Risks, and Policy Responses | Iossifov, Plamen, and May Y. Khamis |
| 09/155 Spillovers from the Rest of the World into Sub-Saharan African Countries | Drummond, Paulo, Flavio Nacif, and Gustavo Ramirez |
| 09/148 In Search of Successful Inflation Targeting: Evidence from an Inflation Targeting Index | Miao, Yanliang |
| 09/146 Introducing the Euro as Legal Tender—Benefits and Costs of Eurorization for Cape Verde | Imam, Patrick A. |
| 09/115 The Macroeconomics of Scaling Up Aid: The Gleneagles Initiative for Benin | Mongardini, Joannes, and Issouf Samaké |
| 09/114 Sub-Saharan Africa’s Integration in the Global Financial Markets | Deléchat, Corinne, Gustavo Ramirez, Smita Wagh, and John Wakeman-Linn |
| 09/113 Financial Deepening in the CFA Franc Zone: The Role of Institutions | Singh, Raju, Kangni Kpodar, and Dhaneshwar Ghura |
| 09/107 Madagascar: A Competitiveness and Exchange Rate Assessment | Eyraud, Luc |
| 09/98 Understanding Inflation Inertia in Angola | Klein, Nir, and Alexander Kyei |
| 09/75 Grants, Remittances, and the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate in Sub-Saharan African Countries | Mongardini, Joannes, and Brett Rayner |
| 09/37 Dedollarization in Liberia—Lessons from Cross-Country Experience | Erasmus, Lodewyk, Jules Leichter, and Jeta Menkulasi |
| 09/36 The Macroeconomic Impact of Scaled-Up Aid: The Case of Niger | Farah, Abdikarim, Emilio Sacerdoti, and Gonzalo Salinas |
| 09/27 The Value of Institutions for Financial Markets: Evidence from Emerging Markets | Akitoby, Bernardin, and Thomas Stratmann |
| 09/25 Why Isn’t South Africa Growing Faster? A Comparative Approach | Eyraud, Luc |
| 09/15 The Determinants of Commercial Bank Profitability in Sub-Saharan Africa | Flamini, Valentina, Calvin A. McDonald, and Liliane Schumacher |
| 09/14 Bank Efficiency in Sub-Saharan African Middle-Income Countries | Chen, Chuling |
| 09/11 How Can Burundi Raise Its Growth Rate? The Impact of Civil Conflicts and State Intervention on Burundi’s Growth Performance | Basdevant, Olivier |
| 2009 | |
| The Impact of the GlobalFinancial Crisis on Sub-Saharan Africa | African Department |
| Tanzania: The Story of an African Transition | Nord, Roger, Yuri Sobolev, David Dunn, Alejandro Hajdenberg, Niko Hobdari, Samar Maziad, and Stephane Roudet |
| 11/04 South Africa: Macro Policy Mix and Its Effects on Growth and the Real Exchange Rate—Empirical Evidence and GIMF Simulations | Canales Kriljenko, Jorge Ivan |
| 11/02 Measuring the Potential Output of South Africa | Klein, Nir |
| 11/01 In the Wake of the Global Economic Crisis: Adjusting to Lower Revenue of the Southern African Customs Union in Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland | Mongardini, Joannes, Dalmacio Benicio, Thomson Fontaine, Gonzalo C. Pastor, and Geneviève Verdier |
| 10/03 Zimbabwe: Challenges and Policy Options after Hyperinflation | Kramarenko, Vitaliy, Lars H. Engstrom, Genevieve Verdier, Gilda Fernandez, Stefan E. Oppers, Richard Hughes, James McHugh, and Warren L. Coats |
| 10/02 Expenditure Composition and Economic Developments in Benin | Pani, Marco, and Mohamed El Harrak |
| 10/01 Wage Policy and Fiscal Sustainability in Benin | Lundgren, Charlotte J. |
| 09/04 The Global Financial Crisis and Adjustments to Shocks in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda: A Balance Sheet Analysis Perspective | Masha, Iyabo |
| 09/03 Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Exchange Rates and Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa | Ben Ltaifa, Nabil, Stella Kaendera, and Shiv Dixit |
| 09/02 Spillover Effects and the East African Community: Explaining the Slowdown and the Recovery | Drummond, Paulo, and Gustavo Ramirez |
| 09/01 Foreign Exchange Reserve Adequacy in East African Community Countries | Drummond, Paulo, Aristide Mrema, Stephane Roudet, and Mika Saito |
| 09/20 The International Financial Crisis and Global Recession: Impact on the CEMAC Region and Policy Considerations | Wakeman-Linn, John, Rafael A. Portillo, Plamen Iossifov, and Dimitre Millkov |
| 09/16 The Global Financial Crisis: Impact on WAEMU Member Countries and Policy Options | Mueller, Johannes, Irene Yackovlev, and Hans Weisfeld |
| 09/14 The Southern African Development Community’s Macroeconomic Convergence Program: Initial Performance | Burgess, Robert |
| 09/10 Fiscal Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa in Response to the Impact of the Global Crisis | Berg Andrew, Norbert Funke, Alejandro Hajdenberg, Victor Duarte Lledo, Rolando Ossowski, Martin Schindler, Antonio Spilimbergo, Shamsuddin Tareq, and Irene Yackovlev |
| 11/207 External Sustainability of Oil-Producing Sub-Saharan African Countries | Takebe, Misa, and Robert C. York |
| 11/205 The Cyclicality of Fiscal Policies in the CEMAC Region | Mpatswe, Gaston K., Sampawende J. Tapsoba, and Robert C. York |
| 11/204 South Africa: The Cyclical Behavior of the Markups and Its Implications for Monetary Policy | Klein, Nir |
| 11/202 Burkina Faso—Policies to Protect the Poor from the Impact of Food and Energy Price Increases | Arze del Granado, Javier, and Isabell Adenauer |
| 11/198 De Jure versus De Facto Exchange Rate Regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa | Slavov, Slavi T. |
| 11/196 Financial Deepening, Property Rights and Poverty: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa | Singh, Raju Jan, and Yifei Huang |
| 11/178 FDI from BRICs to LICs: Emerging Growth Driver? | Mlachila, Montfort, and Misa Takebe |
| 11/176 Determinants of Interest Rate Pass-Through: Do Macroeconomic Conditions and Financial Market Structure Matter? | Gigineishvili, Nikoloz |
| 11/174 The Quest for Higher Growth in the WAEMU Region: The Role of Accelerations and Decelerations | Kinda, Tidiane, and Montfort Mlachila |
| 11/172 Fiscal Policy Implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa | Lledo, Victor Duarte, and Marcos Poplawski Ribeiro |
| 11/149 Post-conflict Recovery: Institutions, Aid, or Luck? | David, Antonio, Fabiano Rodrigues Bastos, and Marshall Mills |
| 11/104 Ghana: Will It Be Gifted or Will It Be Cursed? | Aydin, Burcu |
| 11/102 Oil Spill(over)s: Linkages in Petroleum Product Pricing Policies in West African Countries | David, Antonio, Mohamed El Harrak, Marshall Mills, and Lorraine Ocampos |
| 11/80 Feeling the Elephant’s Weight: The Impact of Cote d’lvoire’s Crisis on WAEMU Trade | Egoumé-Bossogo, Philippe, and Ankouvi Nayo |
| 11/73 ICT, Financial Inclusion, and Growth Evidence from African Countries | Andrianaivo, Mihasonirina, and Kangni Kpodar |
| 11/69 Fiscal Sustainability and the Fiscal Reaction Function for South Africa | Burger, Philippe, Alfredo Cuevas, Ian Stuart, and Charl Jooste |
| 11/64 Reviving the Competitive Storage Model: A Holistic Approach to Food Commodity Prices | Miao, Yanliang, Weifeng Wu, and Norbert Funke |
| 11/59 Inflation Uncertainty and Relative Price Variability in WAEMU | Fernandez Valdovinos, Carlos, and Kerstin Gerling |
| 11/57 Modeling Inflation in Chad | Kinda, Tidiane |
| 11/48 Fiscal Expectations under the Stability and Growth Pact: Evidence from Survey Data | Poplawski-Ribeiro, Marcos, and Jan-Christoph Rulke |
| 11/40 Growth in Africa under Peace and Market Reforms | Korbut, Olessia, Gonzalo Salinas, and Cheikh A. Gueye |
| 11/9 Capital Flows, Exchange Rate Flexibility, and the Real Exchange Rate | Kinda, Tidiane, Jean-Louis Combes, and Patrick Plane |
| 10/292 Weathering the Global Storm: The Benefits of Monetary Policy Reform in the LA5 Countries | Canales Kriljenko, Jorge Iván, Luis Ignacio Jacome, Ali Alichi, and Ivan Luis de Oliveira Lima |
| 10/217 Performance of Fiscal Accounts in South Africa in a Cross-Country Setting | Aydin, Burcu |
| 10/216 Cyclicality of Revenue and Structural Balances in South Africa | Aydin, Burcu |
| 10/210 Mother, Can I Trust the Government? Sustained Financial Deepening—A Political Institutions View | Quintyn, Marc, and Genevieve Verdier |
| 10/195 Islamic Banking: How Has It Diffused? | Imam, Patrick A., and Kangni Kpodar |
| 10/191 A Macro Model of the Credit Channel in a Currency Union Member: The Case of Benin | Samake, Issouf |
| 10/166 How Do International Financial Flows to Developing Countries Respond to Natural Disasters? | David, Antonio |
| 10/162 Exchange Rate Assessment for Sub-Saharan Economies | Aydin, Burcu |
| 10/148 Balance Sheet Vulnerabilities of Mauritius during a Decade of Shocks | Imam, Patrick A., and Rainer Koehler |
| 10/140 Beyond Aid: How Much Should African Countries Pay to Borrow? | Gueye, Cheikh A., and Amadou N.R. Sy |
| 10/136 Banking Efficiency and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa | Kablan, Sandrine |
| 10/132 FDI Flows to Low-Income Countries: Global Drivers and Growth Implications | Dabla-Norris, Era, Jiro Honda, Amina Lahrèché-Revil, and Genevieve Verdier |
| 10/118 The Linkage between the Oil and Nonoil Sectors—A Panel VAR Approach | Klein, Nir |
| 10/115 Short-versus Long-Term Credit and Economic Performance: Evidence from the WAEMU | Kpodar, Kangni, and Kodzo Gbenyo |
| 10/80 Budget Institutions and Fiscal Performance in Low-Income Countries | Dabla-Norris, Era, Richard Allen, Luis-Felipe Zanna, Tej Prakash, Eteri Kvintradze, Victor Duarte Lledo, Irene Yackovlev, and Sophia Gollwitzer |
| 10/66 ICT Equipment Investment and Growth in Low-and Lower-Middle-Income Countries | Haacker, Markus |
| 10/58 The Real Exchange Rate and Growth Revisited: The Washington Consensus Strikes Back? | Berg, Andrew, and Yanliang Miao |
| 10/49 Firm Productivity, Innovation, and Financial Development | Dabla-Norris, Era, Eramus Kersting, and Genévieve Verdier |
| 09/274 Cyclical Patterns of Government Expenditures in Sub-Saharan Africa: Facts and Factors | Lledo, Victor, Irene Yackovlev, and Lucie Gadenne |
| 09/269 A Framework to Assess the Effectiveness of IMF Technical Assistance in National Accounts | Pastor, Gonzalo C. |
| 09/260 Improving Surveillance across the CEMAC Region | Iossifov, Plamen, Noriaki Kinoshita, Misa Takebe, Robert C. York, and Zaijin Zhan |
| 09/244 A Rule Based Medium-Term Fiscal Policy Framework for Tanzania | Kim, Daehaeng, and Mika Saito |
| 09/227 Analyzing Fiscal Space Using the MAMS Model: An Application to Burkina Faso | Gottschalk, Jan, Vu Manh Le, Hans Lofgren, and Kofi Nouve |
| 09/216 Determinants and Macroeconomic Impact of Remittances in Sub-Saharan Africa | Singh, Raju Jan, Markus Haacker, and Kyung-woo Lee |
| 09/215 São Tomé and Príncipe: Domestic Tax System and Tax Revenue Potential | Farhan, Nisreen |
| 09/192 The Gambia: Demand for Broad Money and Implications for Monetary Policy Conduct | Sriram, Subramanian S. |
| 09/182 Understanding the Growth of African Markets | Yartey, Charles Amo, and Mihasonirina Andrianaivo |
| 09/180 Credit Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa—Sources, Risks, and Policy Responses | Iossifov, Plamen, and May Y. Khamis |
| 09/155 Spillovers from the Rest of the World into Sub-Saharan African Countries | Drummond, Paulo, Flavio Nacif, and Gustavo Ramirez |
| 09/148 In Search of Successful Inflation Targeting: Evidence from an Inflation Targeting Index | Miao, Yanliang |
| 09/146 Introducing the Euro as Legal Tender—Benefits and Costs of Eurorization for Cape Verde | Imam, Patrick A. |
| 09/115 The Macroeconomics of Scaling Up Aid: The Gleneagles Initiative for Benin | Mongardini, Joannes, and Issouf Samaké |
| 09/114 Sub-Saharan Africa’s Integration in the Global Financial Markets | Deléchat, Corinne, Gustavo Ramirez, Smita Wagh, and John Wakeman-Linn |
| 09/113 Financial Deepening in the CFA Franc Zone: The Role of Institutions | Singh, Raju, Kangni Kpodar, and Dhaneshwar Ghura |
| 09/107 Madagascar: A Competitiveness and Exchange Rate Assessment | Eyraud, Luc |
| 09/98 Understanding Inflation Inertia in Angola | Klein, Nir, and Alexander Kyei |
| 09/75 Grants, Remittances, and the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate in Sub-Saharan African Countries | Mongardini, Joannes, and Brett Rayner |
| 09/37 Dedollarization in Liberia—Lessons from Cross-Country Experience | Erasmus, Lodewyk, Jules Leichter, and Jeta Menkulasi |
| 09/36 The Macroeconomic Impact of Scaled-Up Aid: The Case of Niger | Farah, Abdikarim, Emilio Sacerdoti, and Gonzalo Salinas |
| 09/27 The Value of Institutions for Financial Markets: Evidence from Emerging Markets | Akitoby, Bernardin, and Thomas Stratmann |
| 09/25 Why Isn’t South Africa Growing Faster? A Comparative Approach | Eyraud, Luc |
| 09/15 The Determinants of Commercial Bank Profitability in Sub-Saharan Africa | Flamini, Valentina, Calvin A. McDonald, and Liliane Schumacher |
| 09/14 Bank Efficiency in Sub-Saharan African Middle-Income Countries | Chen, Chuling |
| 09/11 How Can Burundi Raise Its Growth Rate? The Impact of Civil Conflicts and State Intervention on Burundi’s Growth Performance | Basdevant, Olivier |