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Untangling the Quality of Governance from the Level of Income: Are Sub-Saharan African Countries Governed Well?

Gundlach, Erich; Hartmann, Susanne - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2005

We consider whether Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are mainly poor because they are governed worse than other countries, as suggested by recent studies on the supremacy of institutions. Our empirical results show that the supremacy of institutions does not hold. SSA countries appear to face...

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The Impact of Agricultural Market Liberalisation from a Gender Perspective: Evidence from Uganda

Lay, Jann; Golan, Jennifer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

Focusing on intra-household allocation, we investigate the effects of coffee market liberalisation in Uganda. As coffee …, gender-related inefficiency in household production might undermine the positive impact of improved incentives. Using data … from three household surveys conducted between 1992 and 2006, we estimate Engel curves, coffee yield and labour input …

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Revenue and expenditure nexus: A case study of ECOWAS

Magazzino, Cosimo - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

This paper aims to assess the relationship among fiscal variables (net lending, government expenditure and revenue) and economic growth in Sub-Saharan African countries. Using yearly data for the period between 1980 and 2011 in 15 ECOWAS countries, a weak long-run relationship between government...

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Why should sub-Saharan Africa care about the Doha development round?

Draper, Peter; Freytag, Andreas; Al Doyaili, Sarah - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

In recent years sub-Saharan Africa, notwithstanding the global financial crisis, has increased its share in global trade and investment flows. This has led to an appreciable improvement in development levels, albeit off a small base. However, these patterns are still dominated by commodity flows...

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The Heterogeneity of FDI in Sub-Saharan Africa – How Do the Horizontal Productivity Effects of Emerging Investors Differ from Those of Traditional Players?

Pfeiffer, Birte; Görg, Holger; Villar, Lucia Perez - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

This paper analyzes the horizontal productivity effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) from industrialized and developing countries in 10 sub-Saharan African countries. We establish a unique data set by combining data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys that allow us to distinguish...

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Boda Bodas Rule: Non-agricultural Activities and Their Inequality Implications in Western Kenya

Lay, Jann; M'Mukaria, George Michuki; Mahmoud, Toman Omar - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

Engagement in non-agricultural activities in rural areas can be classified into survival-led or opportunity-led. Survival-led diversification would decrease inequality by increasing the incomes of poorer households and thus reduce poverty. By contrast, opportunity-led diversification would...

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Shocks, income diversification and welfare in developing and transition countries

Omar Mahmoud, Toman - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

trafficking. Based on a household survey on human trafficking from Belarus, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine, the analysis …

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Income Diversification and Poverty in a Growing Agricultural Economy: The Case of Ghana

Lay, Jann; Schüler, Dana - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

specialising in those activities the household is relatively good at. They also tend to benefit more from agricultural growth. …

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Price Incentives, Non-Price Factors, and Agricultural Production in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cointegration Analysis

Thiele, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2002

This paper deals with the question of how responsive farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are to changes in incentives. Employing Johansen's multivariate cointegration approach, it investigates for ten selected SSA countries the long-run effect of pricing policies, macroeconomic distortions, and...

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More Coffee, More Cigarettes? Coffee Market Liberalisation, Gender, and Bargaining in Uganda

Golan, Jennifer; Lay, Jann - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

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