Explaining Episodes of Growth Accelerations, Decelerations, and Collapses in Western Africa / / Gonzalo Salinas, Patrick Imam

• Autore: Salinas Gonzalo
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (46 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 338.542
• Soggetto topico: Business cycles - Africa, West - Econometric models; Economic development - Africa, West - Econometric models; Financial crises - Africa, West - Econometric models; Exports and Imports; Macroeconomics; Criminology; Empirical Studies of Trade; Aggregate Factor Income Distribution; Remittances; Foreign Aid; Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption; International economics; Corporate crime; white-collar crime; Terms of trade; Income; Foreign aid; Economic policy; nternational cooperation; International finance; International relief
• Soggetto geografico: Africa, West Economic conditions Econometric models; Equatorial Guinea, Republic of
• Altri autori: ImamPatrick
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- CONTENTS -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. West African Economic Performance in Perspective -- III. Growth Turnarounds and Their Determinants -- A. Identifying Growth Turnarounds -- B. Stylized Facts of Turnarounds -- C. Growth Determinants -- Terms of Trade -- Remittances -- Foreign Aid -- Governance -- Rainfall -- Ethnic Fractionalization -- Distance/Landlockedness -- Climate and Malaria -- IV. Methodology -- V. Econometric Analysis -- VI. Conclusion And Policy Implications.
• Sommario/riassunto: The growth literature has had problems explaining the "sub-Saharan African growth dummy" in cross-country regressions. Instead of taking the usual approach of focusing on long-run growth and assuming that sub-Saharan countries have homogenous parameters in growth regressions, we concentrate our analysis on episodes of growth turnarounds (identifying growth accelerations, decelerations, and collapses) and use only West African countries in our sample. The driving force of growth turnarounds are estimated by analyzing external shocks, political and institutional changes, economic reforms, and indicators particularly relevant to the region. Using probits for a group of 22 Western African economies for the period 1960-2006, we find that growth accelerations are most clearly associated with external shocks, economic liberalization, political stability, and closeness to the coast; decelerations occurred during short-lived regimes and when corruption indices weakened; and collapses are linked to external shocks, falling domestic credit, and proximity to the coast. We then identify policy implications.
• Titolo autorizzato: Explaining Episodes of Growth Accelerations, Decelerations, and Collapses in Western Africa
• ISBN: 1-4623-1441-4; 1-4519-9837-6; 1-4518-7145-7; 9786612842221; 1-282-84222-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812130603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; ; No. 2008/287