Unit 4 Macro: Prospects for the African Economy

In recent times there have been several new reports focusing on growth and development prospects for the African continent. Contained within them is plenty of useful background analysis and comment for students and teachers who spend time looking at developments and issues affecting Africa as part of their economics studies. Follow the links below for more details:

IMF Finance and Development Blog

Africa’s New Engine - Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology and Globalization Project at Harvard Kennedy School

McKinsey Global Institute

Lions on the move: The progress and potential of African economies

African Development Bank

What Will Africa Be Like in 2060?

October 2011: IMF Regional Economic Outlook: Sub-Saharan Africa

World Bank Resources on Africa and individual countries - click here

Unit 4 Macro: African Human Development Report 2012 [15 May 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: African Aid - Helpful or Harmful? [22 Apr 2012]
Beyond the Bike - Gold Digging in Sudan [28 Mar 2012]
Beyond the Bike - Monetary Policy in Africa [28 Mar 2012]
Beyond the Bike - The Importance of Remittances [15 Jan 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Development Issues: The Baby Boom in Zambia [29 Dec 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Mobile Phones and African Economic Growth [18 Dec 2011]
Millennium Development Goals - Uneven Progress [18 Dec 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: India - the Road Ahead [7 Dec 2011]
Africa’s Hopeful Economies [4 Dec 2011]
The World Economy: how did we get here and where are we going? [2 Nov 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: World Food Day [16 Oct 2011]
Can the “invisible hand” solve Africa’s poverty? [13 Oct 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: When China Met Africa [1 Oct 2011]
Using Timetric in the Classroom [27 Sep 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: IMF Flags up Risks of Double Dip [20 Sep 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: Inequality and Development [12 Sep 2011]
Eurozone macroeconomics for 9 year olds - brick by brick [7 Sep 2011]
Development Economics - Emerging Africa [28 Jun 2011]
Global Aging - New IMF Video [10 Jun 2011]
What is the IMF? [12 Apr 2011]
Tracking the Global Economy - IMF on You Tube [11 Apr 2011]
China and Africa - Resources on their relationship [14 Feb 2011]
Migrants’ Transfers and the Balance of Payments [11 Feb 2011]
Tuesday Talks! African development [8 Feb 2011]
The Chinese are coming! [5 Feb 2011]
Is Microfinance is an Effective Tool to Help Eradicate Poverty? [30 Dec 2010]
IMF signs off on UK’s fiscal plans [27 Sep 2010]
Data Mining on Global Poverty [14 Sep 2010]
Little sign yet of a Yuan appreciation [29 Jul 2010]
A selection of revision notes on economic growth and development [4 Jun 2010]
Roubini at the LSE - governments run out of policy bullets [20 May 2010]
World Economic Forum on Africa 2010 [9 May 2010]
World Bank throws open it’s development data! [21 Apr 2010]
The (sovereign) default option is costly [7 Apr 2010]
RES Competition: A New World Currency? [31 Mar 2010]
Rethinking the mantra of price stability [14 Feb 2010]
Assorted Links (11 Jan) - Focus on Business Economics [11 Jan 2010]
Africa Can - a new development blog [31 Dec 2009]
Impact of global recession on developing countries [18 Dec 2009]
Capital flight [17 Dec 2009]
IMF health check on the UK economy [7 Aug 2008]
IMF and HSBC Economists on Global Shock Absorbers [19 May 2008]
World Bank Development Indicators 2008 [4 May 2008]
Policy conflict for the UK economy? [9 Apr 2008]
Engine rooms for the world economy [3 Feb 2008]

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