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Economic Geography and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bosker, Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - CESifo - 2008
The physical or absolute geography of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is often blamed for its poor economic performance. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181360
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La charité islamique : un levier innovant pour le financement du développement ?
El Sharkawy, Nourhan - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX)
returns on these flows to make them productive? Based on experiences in some countries of the Arab World, Africa and Southeast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273988
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Racial Differences in Body-Mass Indices for Men Imprisoned in 19th Century US Prisons: A Multinomial Approach
Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2010
Little research has been done on the body mass index values of 19th century US African-Americans and whites. This paper uses 19th century US prison records to demonstrate that although modern BMIs have increased in the 20th century, 19th century black and white BMIs were distributed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583681
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Santé, inégalités et ruptures sociales à Antananarivo. Premiers résultats de l’enquête SIRS 2003
Parizot, Isabelle; Rakotomanana, Faly; Razafindrakoto, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2005
The Health, Inequalities and Social Breakdown (SIRS) survey carried out in Antananarivo in April 2003 on a representative sample of 2,807 people, is part of an international research programme designed to compare the relationships between health, inequalities and social breakdowns in different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071900
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Credit Constraints, Quality, and Export Prices: Theory and Evidence from China
Fan, Haichao; Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Li, Yao Amber - CESifo - 2013
This paper examines the relationship between the credit constraints faced by a firm and the unit value prices of its exports. The paper modifies Arkolakis’s (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and credit constraints. The model predicts that tighter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690383
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The Application of the Capability Approach to High-Income OECD Countries: A Preliminary Survey
Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2011
The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-income OECD countries. The survey aims at a basis of mutual exchange on relevant CA issues among researchers analyzing well-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853849
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Economic Growth in Africa: Comparing Recent Improvements with the "lost 1980s and early 1990s" and Estimating New Growth Trends
Leibfritz, Willi; Flaig, Gebhard - CESifo - 2013
In the first part of the paper we look at economic growth in Africa over the past three decades. We divide the past …. During the first period, Africa did not catch up but lost ground, Africa’s average per capita income declined. Since the mid … growth rates for Africa and several individual countries. We use the Hodrick-Prescott filter with different values for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641423
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Report on Impact Evaluation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mendiratta, Vibhuti - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011
Impact evaluation has recently gained significant momentum with good reason, as they help to quantify the social impacts of interventions. With increased importance being attached to evaluation, one spillover effect could be capacity development in African countries with increased participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707056
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The informal sector and poverty in Africa – measurement instruments, analyses, and economic policies
Balepa, Martin; Roubaud, François - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010708776
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Partenaires émergents : quels enjeux pour la soutenabilité de la dette africaine ?
Dahoun, Dieudonné Bleossi; Raffinot, Marc - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
After debt cancellations, in particular MDRI (Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative) debt ratios in Low Income Country dropped to historic lows. They are now getting into debt again, because of Bretton Woods Institutions (BWI) new loans, of emerging countries’ (namely China) loans, and sometimes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010708906