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Investment in infrastructure is considered as a crucial prerequisite for economic development. Given the scarce … needed. This paper focuses on transport infrastructure in Africa. The effects of better and longer roads are investigated in …
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We study the effect of international financial integration on economic development when the quality of governance may … follows: (1) corruption is always bad for economic development, but its effect is worse if the economy is open than if it is … closed; (2) the incidence of corruption may, itself, be affected by both the development and openness of the economy; (3 …
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This paper presents an analysis of bureaucratic corruption, income inequality and economic development. The analysis is … development. …
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In their survey of the literature on ethnic fractionalization and economic performance, Alesina and La Ferrara (JEL 2005) identify two main directions for future research. One is to improve the measurement of diversity and the other to treat diversity as an endogenous variable. This paper tries...
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Differences in key features of the development process across rich and poor countries can provide clues to the sources … of economic development, nding that developed countries all followed the same process. In this paper, I compare …
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elasticities of import demand for the nine African countries importing from the EU and Sub-Saharan Africa respectively. Second, we …
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productivity effects of outward FDI and the level of human capital, the level of financial development, or the degree of trade …
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This paper makes two main contributions. First, we examine the long-run effect of foreign aid on domestic output for 59 developing countries using heterogeneous panel cointegration techniques to control for omitted variable and endogeneity bias and to detect possible cross-country differences in...
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This paper analyses the impact of health foreign assistance on physicians' brain drain. We use the database from Bhargava and Docquier (2008) to explain physicians' brain drain and health foreign assistance from 1995 to 2003 using a bilateral gravity equation model. In the first time, we propose...
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with above- and below-average aid-to-GDP ratios, for countries with different levels of human development, with different …
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