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Browsing Research Articles (Economics) by Author "Fosu, Augustin Kwasi"
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Fosu, Augustin Kwasi; Abass, Abdul Fatawu
(Routledge, 2019)
As open economies, African countries need to diversify their exports for economic transformation, sustained growth, and development. Meanwhile, there has been increasing importance of development financing. Following the ...
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Fosu, Augustin Kwasi
(Oxford University Press, 2018-01)
Is Africa experiencing a growth ‘miracle’? Rodrik (2018) seems sceptical, and provides evidence based on modern growth theory to support the scepticism: the recent relatively impressive growth does not seem sustainable. ...
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Fosu, Augustin Kwasi
(Routledge, 2015-01)
The present study employs recent World Bank data to shed light, in a global context, on
the transformation of changes in income and inequality into poverty reduction for a large number of
countries in sub-Saharan Africa ...
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Fosu, Augustin Kwasi
(Elsevier, 2017-06)
The study presents comparative global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing countries, with emphasis on the role of income inequality. The focus is on the period since the ...
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Fosu, Augustin Kwasi; Getachew, Yoseph; Ziesemer, Thomas H.W.
(Cambridge University Press, 2016-12)
This paper develops a model positing a nonlinear relationship between public investment
and growth. The model is then applied to a panel of African countries, using nonlinear
estimating procedures. The growth-maximizing ...
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Fosu, Augustin Kwasi
(Oxford University Press, 2023-04-17)
Employing World Bank data, this paper, first, historically examines Africa’s record on poverty incidence,
spread and severity, as compared with other regions of the world, at the US$1.90 and US$3.20 per day
(2011 PPP) ...
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Fosu, Augustin Kwasi
(Oxford University Press, 2018-01)
While economic growth in Africa has resurged substantially since the mid-to-late 1990s, the amount of poverty reduction seems much less spectacular. Building on other studies, the paper explores the translation of the ...