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Boom, Bust, or Prosperity? Managing Sub-Saharan Africa’s Natural Resource Wealth »
Source: Boom, Bust, or Prosperity? Managing Sub-Saharan Africa's Natural Resource Wealth
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s): Charlotte Lundgren , Alun Thomas , and Robert York
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 27 August 2013
ISBN: 9781484369326
Keywords: Natural resources, Fiscal policy, Fiscal sustainability, Public investment, Tax revenues, Transparency, Tax administration, Sub-Saharan Africa, natural resource, extractive industries
Sizeable natural resource endowments and potentially large financial inflows from their extraction provide an unparalleled opportunity for economic growth and development in a growing number of sub-Saharan African...
Financial Deepening, Property Rights and Poverty »
Source: Financial Deepening, Property Rights and Poverty : Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa
Volume/Issue: 2011/196
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Yifei Huang , and Raju Singh
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 August 2011
ISBN: 9781462305230
Keywords: financial development, property rights, dependent variable, gini coefficient, descriptive statistics, Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development, Financial Economics: General,
Recent studies on the relationship between financial development and poverty have been inconclusive. Some claim that, by allowing more entrepreneurs to obtain financing, financial development improves the allocatio...
Investing in Public Investment »
Source: Investing in Public Investment : An Index of Public Investment Efficiency
Volume/Issue: 2011/37
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Zac Mills , Annette Kyobe , Jim Brumby , Chris Papageorgiou , and Era Dabla-Norris
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 February 2011
ISBN: 9781455217892
Keywords: public investment management, project appraisal, selection, implementation, and evaluation, growth, investment management, budget institutions, investment projects, investment spending
This paper introduces a new index that captures the institutional environment underpinning public investment management across four different stages: project appraisal, selection, implementation, and evaluation. Co...
2. The Impact of Global Financial Stress on Sub-Saharan African Banking Systems »
Source: Regional Economic Outlook, April 2012, Sub-Saharan Africa : Sustaining Growth amid Global Uncertainty
Series: Regional Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 17 May 2012
ISBN: 9781616352493
Keywords: exchange rate, exporters, exchange rate pegs, banking, inflation
INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY In the last few years, the world has experienced three episodes of global financial stress. The most significant took place after the collaps...
3. Sub-Saharan Africa’s Natural Resource Exporters: Recent Performance and Policy Challenges »
Source: Regional Economic Outlook, April 2012, Sub-Saharan Africa : Sustaining Growth amid Global Uncertainty
Series: Regional Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 17 May 2012
ISBN: 9781616352493
Keywords: exchange rate, exporters, exchange rate pegs, banking, inflation
INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY Exhaustible natural resources account for a large share of output and export earnings in many sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Rising wor...
Chapter 2. Is There a Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa? »
Source: Boom, Bust, or Prosperity? Managing Sub-Saharan Africa's Natural Resource Wealth
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s): Charlotte Lundgren , Alun Thomas , and Robert York
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 27 August 2013
ISBN: 9781484369326
Keywords: Natural resources, Fiscal policy, Fiscal sustainability, Public investment, Tax revenues, Transparency, Tax administration, Sub-Saharan Africa, natural resource, extractive industries
With both a long history of natural resource extraction in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and—until recently—relatively poor economic performance, it is fair to ask if the region has suff...
Statistical Appendix »
Source: Regional Economic Outlook, April 2012, Sub-Saharan Africa : Sustaining Growth amid Global Uncertainty
Series: Regional Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 17 May 2012
ISBN: 9781616352493
Keywords: exchange rate, exporters, exchange rate pegs, banking, inflation
Unless otherwise noted, data and projections presented in this Regional Economic Outlook are IMF staff estimates as of April 20, 2011, consistent with the projections underlying the April 2012 World Economic...
I Overview »
Source: Trade and Trade Policies in Eastern and Southern Africa
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Arvind Subramanian
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 September 2000
ISBN: 9781557759429
Keywords: trade liberalization, monopoly, trade taxes, export taxes, export performance
Since the early 1990s, many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have made significant progress in opening their economies to external competition through trade and exchange liberalization, often in...
1. Sustaining Growth amid Global Uncertainty »
Source: Regional Economic Outlook, April 2012, Sub-Saharan Africa : Sustaining Growth amid Global Uncertainty
Series: Regional Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 17 May 2012
ISBN: 9781616352493
Keywords: exchange rate, exporters, exchange rate pegs, banking, inflation
INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY Sub-Saharan Africa continues to record strong economic growth, despite the weaker global economic environment. Regional output rose by 5 perc...
Chapter 7. Safeguarding the Public Interest »
Source: Boom, Bust, or Prosperity? Managing Sub-Saharan Africa's Natural Resource Wealth
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s): Charlotte Lundgren , Alun Thomas , and Robert York
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 27 August 2013
ISBN: 9781484369326
Keywords: Natural resources, Fiscal policy, Fiscal sustainability, Public investment, Tax revenues, Transparency, Tax administration, Sub-Saharan Africa, natural resource, extractive industries
Good governance is critical to ensuring that the state gets a fair financial return from the exploitation of its natural resources and that resource revenue is effectively and fairly used. Although the effec...