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The study investigates whether development assistance can be used to crowd-out the negative effect of terrorism on international trade. The empirical evidence is based on a panel of 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008 and Quantile Regressions. The following main findings are...
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We employ interactive quantile regressions to assess conditional linkages between foreign aid, iron ore exports and …, it is primarily in the countries with the highest level of iron ore exports that terrorism affects exports. Second …, bilateral aid has an impact on iron ore exports, while the evidence for such a relationship between multilateral aid and iron …
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potentially negative effect of terrorism on fuel exports in 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008. Bilateral and …. Second, while bilateral aid consistently decreases (increases) fuel exports at the top (bottom) quantiles, multilateral aid … regularly decreases fuel exports in the top quantiles. Third, for negative thresholds in the 50th quartile and 90th decile …
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Linkages between foreign aid, terrorism and natural resource (fuel and iron ore) exports are investigated in this study … specifications corresponding to iron ore exports do not hold. Second, there is evidence of convergence in fuel exports. Third … consistently positive on fuel exports. Fourth, the interaction between terrorism and aid dynamics consistently display negative …
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Reconciling the two dominant development models of the Washington Consensus (WC) and Beijing Model (BM) remains a critical challenge in the literature. The challenge is even more demanding when emerging development paradigms like the Liberal Institutional Pluralism (LIP) and New Structural...
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This study assesses the role of foreign aid in reducing the hypothetically negative impact of terrorism on trade using a panel of 78 developing countries with data for the period 1984-2008. The empirical evidence is based on interactive GMM estimations with forward orthogonal deviations....
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Africa. The literature, however, provides conflicting results about the agricultural export-led growth hypothesis. In this … the poor in Africa. Interestingly, agricultural export is growth for the rich in Africa, although the elasticity of GDP is …-income countries in Africa may focus on non-agricultural export. …
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technology commodity exports in Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised … technology goods exports. Second, the internet also complements the mobile phone to boost technology service exports. Third …, positive marginal effects are apparent in the roles of educational quality and scientific output on technology goods exports …
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been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa. This study extends the implications of Thomas … development increases and Africa may not catch-up with the developed world. As an ideal solution, Piketty has proposed progressive …
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This study complements existing literature on the aid-institutions nexus by focusing on political rights, aid volatilities and the post-Berlin Wall period. The findings show that while foreign aid does not have a significant effect on political rights, foreign aid volatilities do mitigate...
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