Rising BRICs and Changes in Sub-Saharan Africa's Business Cycle Patterns /

This paper assesses the extent to which Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)'s business cycle is synchronized with that of the rest of the world (RoW). Findings suggest that SSA's business cycle has not only moved in the same direction as that of the RoW, but has also gradually drifted away from the G...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Diallo, Oumar
Other Authors: Tapsoba, Sampawende
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/035
Online Access:Full text available on IMF