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“Stay with Us”? The Impact of Emigration on Wages in Honduras

Gagnon, Jason - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2010

While the econometric literature on the impact of immigration on labour markets is well developed, there is a striking gap in the migration literature concerning the impact of emigration on sending countries. This paper attempts to narrow that gap by investigating whether the large and intense...

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FDI, Regulations and Growth

Busse, Matthias; Cardosa, Groizard; Luis, José - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2006

The paper explores the linkage between income growth rates and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. So far the evidence is rather mixed, as no robust relationship between FDI and income growth has been established. We argue that countries need a sound business environment in the form of good...

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Financial Liberalisation, Bureaucratic Corruption and Economic

Blackburn, Keith; Forgues-Puccio, Gonzalo F. - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2006

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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Micro-credit, risk coping and the incidence of rural-to-urban migration

Ahsan, Quamrul - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2005

The focus of this paper is on the rural poor of south Asia and their struggle to cope with the seasonal risk of unemployment and the ensuing income risks. In the absence of formal credit or insurance markets the rural poor typically resort to, among other options, the following informal...

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The Political Economy of Corruption and and the Role of Financial Institutions

Hainz, Christa; Boerner, Kira - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2005

In transition and developing countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption even they have democratic political systems. This is surprising from a political economy perspective, as a majority of the people generally suffers from high corruption levels. Our model based on the fact that...

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Distribution and Development in a Model of Misgovernance

Blackburn, Keith; Forgues-Puccio, Gonzalo F. - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2005

This paper presents an analysis of bureaucratic corruption, income inequality and economic development. The analysis is … development. …

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Economic Globalisation, Democracy and Income in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Panel Cointegration Analysis

Sakyi, Daniel - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2011

Sub-Saharan Africa has been characterised by low-income levels for decades. This paper analyses the impact of economic globalisation and democracy on income in sub-Saharan Africa using panel cointegration techniques. The paper considers a composite indicator for economic globalisation and...

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Regional Financial Integration in Sub-Saharan Africa - An Empirical Examination of its Effects on Financial Market Development

Frey, Leo; Volz, Ulrich - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2011

development and access to and cost of finance in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our results suggest that RFI positively affects financial … development - measured very broadly as the size of the financial sector, including the liabilities of the central banks - when … has negative effects on financial development. However, we can find no significant effects of RFI on the size of the …

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Spillover and Competition Effects: Evidence from the Sub-Saharan African Banking Sector

Pohl, Birte - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2011

This paper examines the efficiency effects of foreign bank entry on domestic banks in sub-Saharan Africa during the period 1999-2006. Using a recently compiled dataset on foreign bank presence, the competition and spillover effects of North-South, regional and nonregional South-South banks are...

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Productivity growth, human capital and distance to frontier in Sub-Saharan Africa

Danquah, Michael; Ouattara, Osman; Speight, Alan - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2010

-Saharan Africa and hence efforts in scaling- up investments in human capital by governments, development partners etc should not be …

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