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Unrestricted Market Access for Sub-Saharan Africa: How Much is it Worth and Who Pays?

Ianchovichina, Elena; Mattoo, Aaditya; Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Initiatives to improve market access for the poorest countries have recently been announced by the European Union, Japan and the United States. This Paper assesses the impact on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) of these initiatives and others that might be taken. We find that fully unrestricted access...

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Would Multilateral Trade Reform Benefit Sub-Saharan Africans?

Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will; van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper examines whether, in the presence of trade preferences, Sub-Saharan African economies, and especially its poorest households, could gain from multilateral trade reform. The World Bank’s LINKAGE model of the global economy is employed to examine the impact first of current trade...

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The Marginal Cost of Public Funds in Developing Countries: An Application to 38 African Countries

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Warlters, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

In this paper we propose estimates of the marginal cost of public funds (MCF) in 38 African countries. We develop a simple general equilibrium mode inspired by the “1-2-3” model of Devarajan et al. (1994) that can handle taxes on the five major tax classes, takes account of the informal...

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GM Food Crop Technology: Implications For Sub-Saharan Africa

Anderson, Kym; Jackson, Lee Ann - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

The first generation of genetically modified (GM) crop varieties sought to increase farmer profitability through cost reductions or higher yields. The next generation of GM food research is focusing also on breeding for attributes of interest to consumers, beginning with ‘golden rice’, which...

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Pro-poor trade policy in Sub-Saharan Africa

Nicita, Alessandro; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Porto, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The objective of this paper is to estimate the potential pro-poor bias in the existing structure of protection in six countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) (i.e., whether it redistributes income from rich to poor households). We also explore the extent to which the barriers faced by SSA...

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Human Development in Africa: A Long-run Perspective

Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Long-run trends in Africa’s well-being are provided on the basis of a new index of human development, alternative to the UNDP’s HDI. A sustained improvement in African human development is found that falls, nonetheless, short of those experienced in other developing regions. Within Africa,...

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Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Can international migration promote better institutions at home by raising the demand for political accountability? In order to examine this question, we designed a behavioral measure of the population’s desire for better governance. A postcard was distributed to households with the pledge...

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Smugglers' Blues at the Central Bank: Lessons from Sudan

Braga de Macedo, Jorge; Branson, William H - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

be held constant in the face of a domestic inflation. In this circumstance, import duties and export subsidies would have … in line with domestic inflation. Unless such a passive policy is accompanied by the elimination of trade barriers …

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Did Inflation Really Soar After the Euro Cash Changeover? Indirect Evidence from ATM Withdrawals

Angelini, Paolo; Lippi, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

much sharper rise in inflation than measured by the official price indices, whose quality was called into question. In this … determinants. Since these data do not rely on official inflation statistics, they provide an independent check for the latter. We … not recorded by official inflation statistics. We do not find evidence in support of this hypothesis. …

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Pricing Behaviour and the Introduction of the Euro: Evidence from a Panel of Restaurants

Gaiotti, Eugenio; Lippi, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper assembles an original panel of data from 2,500 restaurants in Italy over the 1998-2004 period. The main objective is to study whether the euro cash changeover had an impact on individual pricing behaviour, as it seems to be perceived by consumers. Although the sample is not...

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