Research

Recent or forthcoming publications

"Monetary Policy Rules for Managing Aid Surges in Africa" (Christopher Adam, Stephen O’Connell, Edward Buffie, and Catherine Pattillo), Review of Development Economics special issue, forthcoming. PDF version.

Benno J. Ndulu, Stephen A. O’Connell, Robert H. Bates, Paul Collier and Charles C. Soludo, eds, 2007, The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa, 1960-2000 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press).

Chapter 1: "Policy Plus: African Economic Growth Performance, 1960-2000" (with Benno J. Ndulu). PDF version.

Chapter 2: "Opportunities and Choices" (with Paul Collier). PDF version.

Benno J. Ndulu, Stephen A. O’Connell, Jean-Paul Azam, Robert H. Bates, Augustin K. Fosu, Jan W. Gunning, and Dominique Njinkeu, eds, 2007, The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa, 1960-2000: Country Case Studies (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press).

Chapter 1: "Overview". PDF version.

"Managing External Volatility: Central Bank Options in Low-Income Countries" (Stephen O’Connell, Christopher Adam, Edward Buffie, and Catherine Pattillo), chapter 1 in Nicoletta Battini, ed, 2007, Monetary Policy in Emerging Market and Other Developing Countries (New York: Nova Science Publishers): 1-30

"Explaining African Economic Growth: The Role of Anti-Growth Syndromes" (with Augustin Kwasi Fosu), in Francois Bourguignon and Boris Plescovic, eds, Growth and Integration: Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2006. Washington, D.C., The World Bank: 31-66.

"Exchange Rate Policy and the Management of Official and Private Capital Flows in Africa" (Edward Buffie, Christopher Adam, Stephen O’Connell, and Catherine Pattillo), IMF Staff Papers 51(Special Issue), 2004: 126-160

"Aid versus Trade Revisited: Donor and Recipient Policies in the Presence of Learning-by-Doing" (with Christopher S. Adam), Economic Journal, 114(492), January 2004: 150-173. [This is a substantially revised version of our CSAE Working Paper, Series No. 2000-19, 2000. (About viewing this document.)]

"Attachment to a National Currency: Evidence from Countries at Different Levels of Development" (with Philip N. Jefferson), Review of Development Economics 8(2), May 2004: 179-197.

"Aid Intensity in Africa" (with Charles C. Soludo), World Development 29(9), September 2001: 1527-1552.  [This is a substantially revised version of our CSAE Working Paper, Series No. 99-3, 1999. (About viewing this document.)]

"Aid, Taxation, and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa" (with Christopher S. Adam), Economics and Politics 11(3), November 1999: 225-54. [A more extensive working paper version is available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1885, February 1998.]

"Governance and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa" (with Benno J. Ndulu), Journal of Economic Perspectives 13(3), Summer 1999: 41-66. [Corrections to Tables 1 and 2 in this paper appeared in JEP 14(3), Summer 2000: 241-242. Click here for a PDF version of the corrections. (About viewing this document.)]

Working papers

"Aid and Fiscal Instability" (Stephen O’Connell, Christopher Adam, and Edward Buffie), July 8, 2008. PDF version.

"Monetary Policy Rules for Managing Aid Surges in Africa" (Christopher Adam, Stephen O’Connell, Edward Buffie, and Catherine Pattillo), IMF Working Paper 07/180, July 1, 2007

"Fiscal Interia, Donor Credibility, and the Monetary Management of Aid Surges" (Edward Buffie, Christopher Adam, Stephen O’Connell and Catherine Pattillo), September 2006. PDF version.

"Riding the Wave: Monetary Responses to Aid Surges in Low-Income Countries" (Edward Buffie, Christopher Adam, Stephen O’Connell and Catherine Pattillo), April 2006. [Revised version of IMF Working Paper No. 04/216, “Exchange Rate Policy and the Management of Official and Private Capital Flows in Africa,” November 1, 2004.] PDF version.

"A Sovereign Debt Model with Trade Credit and Reserves" (with Emanuel Kohlscheen), revised March 2006. Click here for a PDF version.

"Explaining African Economic Growth: Emerging Lessons from the Growth Project," October 2004. [Revised version of paper presented at the AERC Plenary Session, Nairobi, May 29, 2004. Click here for a PDF version (About viewing this document.)]

"Health Maintenance by Workers in Urban and Rural Production Structures" (with Germano M. Mwabu), April 2001. [Available in PDF format as a CSAE Working Paper, Series No. 2001-13, 2001. (About viewing this document.)]

"Africa's Growth Performance: A Focus on Sources of Growth" (with Benno J. Ndulu), April 2000. [Click here for a PDF version of the paper. (About viewing this document.)]

"Aid Dependence Reconsidered." (with Jean-Paul Azam and Shantayanan Devarajan), July 1998. [Available in PDF format as a CSAE Working Paper, Series No. 99-5, 1999. (About viewing this document.) This paper is additionally available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2144, July 1999.]

 

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