Economic Growth

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Power Africa Gets a Boost with MCC’s Ghana Compact
Sarah Rose
August 06, 2014
Yesterday, the Government of Ghana signed its second compact with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). 
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AGOA: Is It About Opportunities or Arm-Twisting?
Kimberly Ann Elliott
August 04, 2014
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) needs to be reauthorized next year and discussions about how to improve it are picking up steam. There is a lot that is unknown—when it will be renewed, for how long, and whether the renewal will be as “seamless” as everyone says they w...
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How Has the Developing World Changed since the Late 1990s? A Dynamic and Multidimensional Taxonomy of Developing Countries - Working Paper 375
Andy Sumner
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Sergio Tezanos Vázquez
August 04, 2014
Many existing classifications of developing countries are dominated by income per capita (such as the World Bank’s low, middle and high income thresholds), thus neglecting the multidimensionality of the concept of ‘development’. Even those deemed to be the main ‘alt...
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An AGOA Deliverable for the US-Africa Leaders Summit
Kimberly Ann Elliott
July 28, 2014
When President Obama hosts some four dozen heads of state from sub-Saharan Africa next week, enhancing US-Africa trade and investment ties will be high on the agenda. At the center of US economic policy towards Africa is the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).