Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 118
Cover Image
Aid as a catalyst for pioneer investment
Collier, Paul - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
I discuss how aid can support growth in small, isolated economies. Small markets frustrate scale economies and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854445
Cover Image
Gendered perspectives on economic growth and development in sub-Saharan Africa
Seguino, Stephanie; Were, Maureen - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
Researchers have linked sub-Saharan Africa.s (SSA) poor growth performance in recent decades to several factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854459
Cover Image
Dimensions of African inequality
Bigsten, Arne - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that det
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854460
Cover Image
Aid, employment, and poverty reduction in Africa
Page, John; Shimeles, Abebe - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed … to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation?the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854479
Cover Image
Foreign capital inflow and economic growth in Cameroon
Fambon, Samuel - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
direct investment) on economic growth in Cameroon. Using the autoregressive distributive lag approach to cointegration and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854494
Cover Image
Industrial development and growth in Nigeria: Lessons and challenges
Chete, L. N.; Adeoti, J. O.; Adeyinka, F. M.; Ogundele, O. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
The structure of the Nigerian economy is typical of an underdeveloped country. The primary sector, in particular, the oil and gas sector, dominates the gross domestic product accounting for over 95 per cent of export earnings and about 85 per cent of gove
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854514
Cover Image
Impact of Foreign Aid on Economic Growth in Sierra Leone: Empirical Analysis
Kargbo, Philip Michael - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on economic growth in Sierra Leone, a country where an empirical … significant contribution in promoting economic growth in the country. This finding is found to be robust across approaches and … specifications. Whilst aid may have been associated with improvement in economic growth in the country, its impact during the period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653086
Cover Image
A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis of Adaptation to Climate Change in Ethiopia
Robinson, Sherman; Willenbockel, Dirk - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
This study links a multi-sectoral regionalized dynamic computable general equilibrium model of Ethiopia with a system of country-specific hydrology, crop, road and hydropower engineering models to simulate the economic impacts of climate change towards 2050. In the absence of externally funded...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653100
Cover Image
Security of Property Rights for Whom?
Lawson-Remer, Terra - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
Recent research regarding property rights and economic development often treats property rights security in a country as homogeneous, although protecting the private entitlements of some can entail preventing others from claiming and controlling those same resources. This one-dimensional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366416
Cover Image
Should Africa Industrialize?
Page, John - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
Africa should industrialize. Without structural change it cannot sustain recent growth. Economies with more diverse and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366423