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  • The prospects for sustained growth in Africa : benchmarking the constraints
    Johnson, Simon, ekonomist ; Ostry, Jonathan David, 1962- ; Subramanian, Arvind
    A dozen countries had weak institutions in 1960 and yet sustained high rates of growth subsequently. We use data on their characteristics early in the growth process to create benchmarks with which ... to evaluate potential constraints on sustained growth for sub-Saharan Africa. This analysis suggeststhat what are usually regarded as first-order problems-broad institutions, macroeconomic stability, trade openness, education, and inequality-may not now be binding constraints in Africa, although the extent of ill-health, internal conflict, and societal fractionalization do stand out as problems in contemporary Africa. A key question is to what extent Africa can rely on manufactured exports as a mode of Ćescape from underdevelopment,Ć a strategy successfully deployed by almost all the benchmark countries. The benchmarking comparison specifically raises two key concerns as far as a development strategy based on expanding exports of manufactures is concerned: micro-level institutions that affect the costs of exporting, and the level of the real exchange rate-especially the need to avoid overvaluation.
    Vrsta gradiva - knjiga
    Založništvo in izdelava - Washington : International Monetary Fund, 2007
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 17264870

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EF, Centralna ekonomska knjižnica, Ljubljana Skladišče II 12065/07 gl. publikacijo
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