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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Autor Principal: Diallo, Oumar
Outros autores: Tapsoba, Sampawende
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/035
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF
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