Africa Industrialization Day: Moving from rhetoric to reality (John Page, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2016/11/21/africa-industrialization-day-moving-from-rhetoric-to-reality/

Are certain countries doomed to remain emerging? (John Page, Brookings)

Incomes in developed and developing countries have been converging, especially since the turn of the century, but the unevenness of that trajectory merits further examination. Beginning in the early the 2000s, the average per capita income of developing countries (adjusted for purchasing power parity) has increased substantially relative to the average per capita income of developed countries (Figure 1). Output per person in developing countries almost doubled between 2000 and 2010. The average annual rate of growth for all developing countries over the decade was 7.6 percent—4.5 percentage points higher than the growth rate in rich countries.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/are-certain-countries-doomed-to-remain-emerging/

Getting a High Five: Advancing Africa’s transformative agenda (John Page, Brookings)

At his swearing in, the new African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina set out an agenda for the economic transformation of the continent. Among the five pillars of that agenda—popularly known as the “high fives”—is one that may have surprised many, especially in the donor community: Industrialize Africa.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2016/05/12-sub-saharan-africa-transformational-agenda-page

Commodities, industry, and the African Growth Miracle (John Page, Brookings)

The 2016 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank occur during uncertain times for the “African Growth Miracle.” After more than two decades of sustained economic expansion, growth in sub-Saharan Africa slowed to 3.4 percent in 2015, the weakest performance since 2009.

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(Istituto fondamentale - Global) Helping solve Africa’s poverty puzzle (John Page, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2015/07/29-africa-poverty-jobs-page

(Istituto fondamentale - Global) What President Obama didn’t see on his trip to Africa (John Page, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/africa-in-focus/posts/2015/07/28-obama-africa-page