Africa at a turning point? : growth, aid, and external shocks / / edited by Delfin S. Go, John Page.

• Superior document: Africa development essays
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Go, Delfin S.; Page, John M., 1949-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Africa development essays.
• Physical Description: xxiv, 573 p. :; col. ill.
• Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents

Is Africa's economy at a turning point? / Jorge Arbache, Delfin S. Go, and John Page -- Patterns of long-term growth in Sub-Saharan Africa / Jorge Saba Arbache and John Page -- Assessing the macroeconomic framework for scaling up foreign aid / Delfin S. Go ... [et al.] -- More and better aid : how are donors doing? / Punam Chuhan-Pole and Brendan Fitzpatrick -- The macroeconomic dynamics of scaling up foreign aid / Shantayanan Devarajan ... [et al.] -- Foreign aid, taxes, and government productivity : alternative scenarios for Ethiopia's millennium development goal strategy / Hans Lofgren and Carolina Diaz-Bonilla -- Beyond aid : new sources and innovative mechanisms for financing development in Sub-Saharan Africa / Dilip Ratha, Sanket Mohapatra, and Sonia Plaza -- Have external shocks become more important for output fluctuations in African countries? / Claudio Raddatz -- Harnessing oil windfalls for growth in the Africa region / Julia Devlin, Michael Lewin, and Thilakaratna Ranaweera -- Managing oil revenue volatility in Nigeria : the role of fiscal policy / Nina Budina and Sweder van Wijnbergen -- Evaluation of the welfare impact of higher energy prices in Madagascar / Noro Andriamihaja and Giovanni Vecchi -- Economywide and distributional impact of an oil price shock on the South African economy / B. Essama-Nssah... [et al.].