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The Changing Structure of Africa's Economies
Diao, Xinshen - 2017
who have a primary education; it has been accompanied by a systematic increase in the productivity of the labor force, as … it has moved from low productivity agriculture to higher productivity services and manufacturing. We also show that …
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The Recent Growth Boom in Developing Economies : A Structural Change Perspective
Diao, Xinshen - 2017
reallocation of labor from low- to high-productivity sectors. Patterns of structural change differ greatly in the recent growth … rapid within-sector labor productivity growth (Latin America) or growth-increasing structural change (Africa), but rarely … have come typically at the expense of declining labor productivity growth in the more modern sectors of the economy. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455549
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What is driving the 'African Growth Miracle'?
McMillan, Margaret S. - 2014
of the labor force engaged in agriculture. This decline has been accompanied by a systematic increase in the productivity … of the labor force, as it has moved from low productivity agriculture to higher productivity manufacturing and services …
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Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa
McMillan, Margaret Stokes; Zeufack, Albert G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
(iii) robust labor productivity growth in Africa's large firms. Limited employment growth in Africa's large manufacturing … linkages and increasing labor productivity in small firms …
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Climate and Civil War : Is the Relationship Robust?
Burke, Marshall - 2010
A recent paper by Burke et al. (henceforth "we") finds a strong historical relationship between warmer- than-average temperatures and the incidence of civil war in Africa (Burke et al. 2009). These findings have recently been challenged by Buhaug (2010) who finds fault with how we controlled for...
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African Poverty is Falling...Much Faster than You Think!
Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2010
The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462876
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Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2009
GDP growth is often measured poorly for countries and rarely measured at all for cities or subnational regions. We propose a readily available proxy: satellite data on lights at night. We develop a statistical framework that uses lights growth to augment existing income growth measures, under...
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Trade Growth under the African Growth and Opportunity Act
Frazer, Garth - 2007
This paper explores whether one of the most important U.S. policies towards Africa of the past few decades achieved its desired result. In 2000, the United States dropped trade restrictions on a broad list of products through the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). Since the Act was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465432
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Lost Decades : Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa
Bates, Robert H. - 2006
Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities. In each case independence was followed by political...
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AIDS, "Reversal" of the Demographic Transition and Economic Development : Evidence from Africa
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - 2006
Using country- and region-level data, I investigate the effect of HIV/AIDS on fertility in Africa during 1985-2000. Results differ depending on the variation used and the estimation method. Between estimates that exploit cross-sectional variation suggest a positive significant effect of HIV/AIDS...
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