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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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Does growth attract FDI?
Iamsiraroj, Sasi; Doucouliagos, Hristos - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
FDI is seen widely as a vital source of investment, technology transfer, and growth. The factors that attract FDI have … factor, the success of economic growth in attracting FDI. Meta-regression analysis is applied to 946 estimates from 140 … empirical studies. The authors show that there is a robust positive correlation between growth and FDI. Significantly larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011203162
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Capital account openness, political institutions and FDI in the MENA region: An empirical investigation
Gammoudi, Mouna; Cherif, Mondher - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
This paper examines how capital account liberalization (CAL) affects Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows. The … Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries from 1985 to 2009. Their findings reveal that the positive impact of CAL on FDI …, enforcing property rights, reducing the risk of expropriation and religious tension seem to be some of the most promising …
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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 …
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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 has traditionally been a male domain, higher income from this activity might increase gender disparities. In addition, gender-related inefficiency in household production might...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956038
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886842
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Shocks, income diversification and welfare in developing and transition countries
Omar Mahmoud, Toman - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
-ante and cope with shocks ex-post. The first part looks at risk-coping strategies and analyzes the socio-economic consequences … stabilize their per-capita incomes after the death of a prime-age member. Yet, risk-sharing arrangements appear to spread the … part of the dissertation explores risk-management strategies and investigates the income diversification patterns of farm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010982774
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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
This paper analyses changes in income portfolios of rural households and its determinants for the case of Ghana in the 1990s. Our analysis shows that, contrary to common beliefs, rural Ghana has seen major economic transformation, as households increasingly diversify their livelihoods by both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010982867
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755201