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Terms of Trade and Growth of Resource Economies: A Tale of Two Countries

Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2011

The current paper demonstrates a dichotomy of the growth response to changes in the barter terms of trade (TOT), employing as case studies the following two African countries: Botswana and Nigeria. Using distributed-lag analysis, the paper finds that the effect of TOT on output is positive and...

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Votes and Violence: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria

Collier, Paul; Vicente, Pedro C - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2008

election held in Africa and one seriously marred by violence. We designed and conducted a nationwide field experiment based on …

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A pooled mean group analysis on aid and growth

Tan, Kang - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2006

This paper uses the pooled mean group estimator and an extended annual dataset to examine the e¤ectiveness of aid on growth. The results indicate a signi.cant long-run impact of aid on growth, but conditioning aid on .good.policy reduces the long-run growth rate.

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Firm Survival and Change in Ghana, 2003-2013

Davies, Elwyn; Kerr, Andrew - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2015

How did Ghanaian manufacturing firms change in the period between 2003 and 2013? This paper presents results from a survey of 1000 firms in Ghana, conducted in 2013, which were randomly selected from the 2003 Ghanaian National Industrial Census. This survey allows us to track survival and exit...

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From Rebellion to Electoral Violence: Evidence from Burundi

Colombo, Andrea; D'Aoust, Olivia; Sterck, Olivier - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2014

We aim at understanding the triggers of electoral violence, which spoiled 80% of elections in Africa during the last …

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The Geography of Output Volatility

Malik, Adeel; Temple, Jonathan R W - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2005

of geography and institutions. We investigate the volatility effects of market access, climate variability, the …

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Aid versus trade revisited

Adam, Christopher S.; O'Connell, Stephen A. - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2000

This paper examines the (non) equivalance between aid flows and trade preferences as alternative forms of donor assistance in the presence of learning-by-doing externalities in recipient country export production. Using a two-period model based on vanWijnbergen (1985), in which the productivity...

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Greening Africa? Technologies, endowments and the latecomer effect

Collier, Paul; Venables, Anthony J. - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2012

Africa is well endowed with potential for hydro and solar power, but its other endowments – shortages of capital …-carbons makes fossil fuels relatively cheap. Current power shortages make expansion of power capacity a priority. Africa … Africa closer to those in the rest of the world. The international community can support by increasing Africa’s supply of the …

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Triggers and Characteristics of the 2007 Kenyan Electoral Violence

Dercon, Stefan; Gutiérrez-Romero, Roxana - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2010

adding to the history of troubled elections in Africa. This paper offers quantitative and qualitative evidence on the …

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Risk and Reciprocity Over the Mobile Phone Network: Evidence from Rwanda

Blumenstock, Joshua; Eagle, Nathan; Fafchamps, Marcel - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2011

A large literature describes how local risk sharing networks can help individuals smooth consumption in the face of idiosyncratic economic shocks. However, when an entire community faces a large covariate shock, and when the transaction costs of transfers are high, these risk sharing networks...

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