The African Growth Miracle

By Alwyn Young. Journal of Political Economy, 2012

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Structural Change With Long‐Run Income and Price Effects (2015, unknown): “Young (2012) employs the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) to infer the elasticity of real consumption of 26 goods and services with respect to income for 29 sub-Saharan and 27 other developing countries. He estimates the elasticity of consumption for the different categories with respect to the e”
Reinventing Foreign Aid for Inclusive and Sustainable Development: Kuznets, Piketty and the Great Policy Reversal (2016, unknown): “Economic prosperity between 1990-2010 has been accompanied with substantial poverty and inequality, although some studies show that African nations have done relatively better in terms of poverty reduction (Young, 2012; Pinkivskiy & Sala-i-Martin, 2014) and inequality (Fosu, 2014).”
The Global Distribution of Income (2014, background): “Young (2012) also found that national accounts provide a poor measure of growth in sub-Saharan Africa and produces independent estimates of consumption growth based on data from Demographic and Health Surveys.”
Foreign Aid and Inclusive Development: Updated Evidence from Africa, 2005-2012 (2017, unknown): “This stream of the literature has been motivated by a strand on ‘Africa rising’ (Leautier, 2012) and/or an ‘African growth miracle’ (Young, 2012) which may be more inclined towards extolling the rewards of capital accumulation and a neoliberal ideology 2 by fundamentally neglecting issues like…”
Who's Getting Globalized? The Size and Implications of Intra-National Trade Costs (2015, unknown): “While the official data collection infrastructure in this region is generally weak (Young, 2012), it is relatively strong for the purposes of collecting the official consumer price index via surveys of the prices of products at retail establishments.”
Africa is on time (2014, unknown): “2 Young (2012) has recently argued that traditional sources of national accounts data understate African growth by several percentage points of GDP per year.”
Dependency redux: why Africa is not rising (2016, background): “‘The Next Asia Is Africa’ (French 2012) as it is ‘The Ultimate Frontier Market’ (Matean 2012) because it is based on an ‘African Growth Miracle’ (Young 2012).”
Rebasing 'Maddison' : new income comparisons and the shape of long-run economic development (2018, background): “17 See e.g. Henderson, Storeygard and Weil (2012), Young (2012) and Jerven (2013).”
Is Poverty in the African DNA (Gene) (2017, background): “These stream of studies which have been motivated by currents of, inter alia: an African growth miracle (Young, 2012), Africa rising (Leautier, 2012), may be more concerned about extolling the appeals of capital accumulation and the neoliberal ideology, hence, neglecting fundamental ethical issues…”
Patterns of structural Change in Developing Countries (2015, background): “Young (2012) argues that many African countries do not have a well-”
Urban-Rural Gaps in the Developing World: Does Internal Migration Offer Opportunities? (2020, methodology): “The idea is to infer household consumption levels using crosssectional correlations between educational attainment and the consumption of each “good” measured in the data (Young 2012, 2013).”
Structural Transformation in Africa: Static Gains, Dynamic Losses (2015, background): “Young (2012) has argued that many African countries do not have a well-established statistical system, not even reporting national accounts data on a consistent basis.”