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Lai, Hongyi Harry - EconWPA - 1997

Factor-endowment based trade with the leading economy helps to explain the differing development performances of the Americas and East Asia in the past two centuries. Between 1830 and 1945, labor-abundant Britain, the most advanced country, traded heavily with land-abundant countries in the...

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Slavery, Institutional Development, and Long-Run Growth in Africa, 1400--2000

Nunn, Nathan - EconWPA - 2004

Can Africa's current state of under-development be partially attributed to the large trade in slaves that occurred … Africa between 1400 and 1913. I find the number of slaves exported from a country to be an important determinant of economic …

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Trade liberalisation under the Doha Development Agenda Options and consequences for Africa

Achterbosch, Tom; Hammouda, Hakim Ben; Osakwe, Patrick; … - EconWPA - 2004

the WTO for Africa using a framework that explicitly incorporates issues of concern to the region, such as preference … on economic welfare and specialisation in Africa. In the static version of the GTAP model, the study finds that full … African region. Sub-Saharan Africa and, to a lesser extent, Southern Africa, are vulnerable to partial trade reforms as they …

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Regional Trade Integration in East Africa: Trade and Revenue Impacts of the Planned East African Community Customs Union

Castro, Lucio - EconWPA - 2005

The paper provides empirical estimates for import and revenue implications that would follow implementation of the planned customs union between the East African Community member states Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. We use 2002 trade and trade policy data for the three countries to simulate the...

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The Anatomy of Emerging African Capitalist States

Stambuli, Kalonga - EconWPA - 2002

The author argues that the doctrine of state supremacy in Africa suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the …

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THE WORLD ECONOMIES AND DEVELOPMENT GOALS

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2004

DEVELOPMENT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CHALLENGE FACING THE HUMAN RACE BUT THE PROCESSES DRIVING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ARE BY NO MEANS FULLY UNDERSTOOD. HOWEVER, THE CORE CHALLENGE FOR DEVELOPMENT IS TO ENSURE PRODUCTIVE WORK AND A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD. THIS CHALLENGE...

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A comment on “The End of Poverty”

Glinavos, Ioannis - EconWPA - 2005

Review of 'The End of Poverty' by Jeffrey Sachs

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The Long Walk to School: International education goals in historical perspective

Clemens, Michael A. - EconWPA - 2004

Raising school enrollment, like economic development in general, takes a long time. This is partly because, as a mountain of empirical evidence now shows, economic conditions and slowly-changing parental education levels determine children's school enrollment to a greater degree than education...

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THE GROWING THREAT OF GLOBAL POVERTY: The Case of Africa

Böbel, Ingo - EconWPA - 2005

-Saharan) Africa and its (past and present) problems. Sub-Saharan Africa is the region which has the greatest percentage of its …

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Books, Buildings and Learning Outcomes: an impact evaluation of World Bank assistance to basic education in Ghana

White, Howard; Masset, Edoardo - EconWPA - 2005

This paper demonstrates that the delivery of hardware inputs to Ghana’s basic education system – building classrooms and supplying textbooks – has had a substantial impact on higher enrollments and better learning outcomes. The Bank’s support for school building has been a major factor...

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