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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 ... [and others] -- More and better aid : how are donors doing? / Punam Chuhan-Pole and Brendan Fitzpatrick -- The macroeconomic dynamics of scaling up foreign aid / Shantayanan Devarajan ... [and others] -- 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... [and others].

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