02003cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF011191 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781462313310 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Mlachila, Montfort. The Quest for Higher Growth in the WAEMU Region : The Role of Accelerations and Decelerations / Montfort Mlachila, Tidiane Kinda. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011. 1 online resource (15 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 With the exception of Burkina Faso and Mali, the growth experience for WAEMU countries has been disappointing, even when compared to other sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. The main objective of the paper is to investigate why the quest for a growth takeoff has been more elusive in the WAEMU countries compared to other SSA countries. To do this, the paper focuses on the determinants of growth accelerations and decelerations in SSA and the WAEMU. It finds that the variables most closely associated with growth accelerations and decelerations in SSA are changes in terms of trade, private investment, civil tension, real exchange rates, and inflation. Second, as found elsewhere in the literature, there is a certain asymmetry between accelerations and decelerations, in both frequency and determinants, and that the WAEMU region is quite different from the rest of SSA. Mode of access: Internet Kinda, Tidiane. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2011/174 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2011/174/001.2011.issue-174-en.xml IMF e-Library