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Does Oil Corrupt? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in West Africa

Vicente, Pedro C. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

corruption. We argue that an anticipated oil boom may increase corruption by boosting the value attributed by an elite to being …-designed household surveys on perceived corruption in the public services/sector. These were carried out in Sao Tome and Principe and in … corruption has occurred in Sao Tome and Principe in recent years, ranging from 21 to 38% of the subjective scale. Consistently …

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Agriculture in African Development: A Review of Theories and Strategies

Dercon, Stefan; Gollin, Douglas - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

Agriculture is the largest sector in most sub-Saharan economies in terms of employment, and it plays an important role in supplying food and export earnings. Rural poverty rates remain high, and labor productivity is strikingly low. This paper asks how these factors shape the role of...

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Envy and Agricultural Innovation: An Experimental Case Study from Ethiopia

Kebede, Bereket; Zizzo, Daniel John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

The underlying motivations for envy or related social preferences and their impact on agricultural innovations are examined by combining data from money burning experimental game and household survey from Ethiopia. In the first stage of the money burning experimental game, income inequality is...

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Votes and Violence: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria

Collier, Paul; Vicente, Pedro C. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

Following the wave of democratization during the 1990s, elections are now common in low-income societies. However, these elections are frequently flawed. We investigate the Nigerian general election of 2007, which is to date the largest election held in Africa and one seriously marred by...

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

Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

The current paper demonstrates a dochotomy 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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Greening Africa? Technologies, endowments and the latecomer effect

Collier, Paul; Venables, Tony - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012

Africa is well endowed with potential for hydro and solar power, but its other endowments - shortages of capital, skills, and governance capacity - make most of the green options relatively expensive, while its abundance of hydro-carbons makes fossil fuels relatively cheap. Current power...

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Private Sector Wages and Poverty in Ghana: 1988-1998

Teal, Francis - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

Real wage rises for the unskilled are one mechanism by which poor people can obtain rises in their incomes and a reduction in their economic vulnerability. In this paper it is shown that over a period in Ghana when measured poverty declined, 1988 to 1992, real wages for the unskilled rose, by...

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Social Interactions in Growing Bananas: Evidence from a Tanzanian Village

Dercon, Stefan; Broeck, Katleen Van den - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

This paper analyses whether agricultural information flows give rise to social learning effects in banana cultivation in Nyakatoke, a small Tanzanian village. Based on a village census, full information is available on socio-economic characteristics and banana production of farmer kinship...

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Consumption, Welfare and Well-Being in Ghana in the 1990s

Teal, Francis - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005

In this paper the links from measures of consumption to welfare and well-being are discussed drawing on a study of changes in consumption in Ghana in the 1990s. It is argued that household consumption can act as an opportunity measure of welfare. The widespread distrust of such a welfare measure...

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Education, incomes, poverty and inequality in Ghana in the 1990s

Teal, Francis - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

Three issues are addressed in this paper. First, we use both household and macro data to establish how fast per capita consumption and incomes grew in Ghana in the 1990s. Second, we ask how much of the rise in incomes was due to rises in the level of human capital and how much reflected...

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