Kevin Carey

Trade links between sub-Saharan Africa and Asia

2007-10-01T12:03:00.001-07:00

Coauthored with Sanjeev Gupta and Ulrich Jacoby from the IMF, a Special Issues paper on trade links between sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.

The technical details

2007-01-23T13:25:00.000-08:00

The article from Finance and Development linked previously relies on more detailed analytical work. A paper describing this is available in two forms: it was published as a Special Issues paper by the IMF and can be ordered online here, or the IMF Working Paper version may be downloaded for free from here.

Accessible introduction to research on growth in Africa

2007-01-23T13:20:00.000-08:00

Here's a link to a non-technical version of work I've been doing as part of a team of researchers at the International Monetary Fund. We outline and apply the recently developed empirical methodology of growth accelerations to study the apparent upsurge in growth in sub-Saharan Africa. There is also a discussion of the popular but opaque concept of pro-poor growth.

Welcome

2007-01-17T12:55:00.000-08:00

I'm going to use this blog to consolidate work-related content that is scattered across various websites, reflecting various institutional stints, at the moment. It's still a work in progress, though. The first order of business is to get the fedmonitor.com domain pointed here. Please contact me: kjcarey AT gmail.com with any queries.