02084cas a2200349 a 4500 AALejournalIMF008670 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451858846 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Aka, Brou. Sources of Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa / Brou Aka, Bernardin Akitoby, Amor Tahari, Dhaneshwar Ghura. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2004. 1 online resource (31 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Analysis of 1960-2002 data shows that average real GDP growth in sub-Saharan Africa was low and decelerated continuously before starting to recover in the second part of the 1990s. Growth was driven primarily by factor accumulation with little role for total factor productivity (TFP) growth. The recent pickup in economic growth was accompanied by an increase in TFP growth, namely in the group of countries whose IMF-supported programs were judged to be on track. Average annual growth in the region, at 3 1\2 percent during 1997-2002, is less than half of the estimated growth needed to halve the fraction of population living below USD 1 per day between 1990 and 2015, one of the Millennium Development Goals. Mode of access: Internet Country imf Growth Accounting imf Real GDP imf Sub-Saharan Africa imf WP imf Equatorial Guinea, Republic of imf Akitoby, Bernardin. Ghura, Dhaneshwar. Tahari, Amor. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2004/176 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2004/176/001.2004.issue-176-en.xml IMF e-Library