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Price Distortions and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Anderson, Kym; Brückner, Markus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa’s slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that have discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy distortions to relative prices...
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322973
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Land deals in Africa: pioneers and speculators
Collier, Paul; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Much African land currently has low productivity and has attracted investors purchasing (or leasing) land as a speculative option on higher future prices or productivity. If land deals are to be beneficial they need to induce productivity enhancing investments. Some of these will be publicly...
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Dynamic Ethnic Fractionalization and Economic Growth in the Transition Economies from 1989 to 2007
Campos, Nauro F; Kuzeyev, Vitaliy; Saleh, Ahmad - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
In their survey of the literature on ethnic fractionalization and economic performance, Alesina and La Ferrara (JEL 2005) identify two main directions for future research. One is to improve the measurement of diversity and the other to treat diversity as an endogenous variable. This paper tries...
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Trade Policy and Regional Integration: Implications for the Relations between Europe and Africa
Collier, Paul; Toye, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
For Africa, a regional customs union is unlikely to realise net welfare gains (in the sense of trade creation dominating trade diversion) which cannot be attained through unilateral trade liberalization. Unilateral reform has often failed in Africa, however. A regional customs union tied to...
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On the Dynamics of Ethnic Fractionalization
Campos, Nauro F; Kuzeyev, Vitaliy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Does fractionalization change over (short periods of) time? If so, are there any substantial implications for economic performance? To answer such questions, we construct a new panel data set with measures of fractionalization for 26 former communist countries covering the period from 1989 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792174
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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
land and unskilled labor, and real net farm incomes would all rise in the region, thereby alleviating poverty. A Doha …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792269
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School Proximity and Child Labor: Evidence from Rural Tanzania
Kondylis, Florence; Manacorda, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Is improved school accessibility an effective policy tool for reducing child labor in developing countries? We address … school. Consistent with a simple model of child labor supply, but contrary to what appears to be a widespread perception, our … analysis shows that school proximity leads to a rise in school attendance but no fall in child labor. …
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Lost Decades: Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa
Bates, Robert H; Coatsworth, John H; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities. In each case independence was followed by political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136542
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Effects of Transitory Shocks to Aggregate Output on Consumption in Poor Countries
Brückner, Markus; Gradstein, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper provides instrumental variables estimates of the response of aggregate private consumption to transitory output shocks in poor countries. To identify exogenous, unanticipated, idiosyncratic and transitory variations in national output we use year-to-year variations in rainfall as an...
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