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Global Innovation Contests
Dinopoulos, Elias; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2023
globalization on the skill premium and fully-endogenous growth. Higher quality products are endogenously discovered through … outsourcing of investment services. Globalization, captured by a move from autarky to the integrated-world equilibrium, leads to … convergence of wages and growth rates. Globalization and long-run growth are either substitutes or complements depending on a …
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A Poor Means Test? Econometric Targeting in Africa
Brown, Caitlin - 2018
Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version, a regression for log consumption calibrates a proxy-means test score based on chosen covariates, which is then implemented for targeting out-of-sample. In this paper, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935077
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Creative Trade for Human Development
Kabanda, Patrick - 2017
In recent years, international trade in creative goods and services has been expanding. But this upward march is not lifting all boats. Although many developing countries are endowed with vast cultural wealth, they still lag behind. In addition, women are not faring well. Much needs to be done...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968765
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Evidence of Development Impact from Institutional Change : A Review of the Evidence on Open Budgeting
Ling, Cristina - 2017
Despite the growing body of literature examining the effectiveness of transparency and accountability initiatives, there remains limited substantiation for whether and how open budgeting contributes to reductions in poverty and improvements in the lives of the poor. This paper reviews available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972978
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The Impact of Mining on Spatial Inequality Recent Evidence from Africa
Addison, Tony - 2017
This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … socioeconomic development in Africa …
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Priority Roads : The Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads
Bonfatti, Roberto - 2019
Africa’s interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa’s interior …
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The Out of Africa Hypothesis of Comparative Economic Development : Common Misconceptions
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2019
The importance of the prehistoric migration of anatomically modern humans from Africa for comparative economic …
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Structural Transformation in Africa : A Historical View
Enache, Maria - 2017
This paper presents evidence suggesting that the relationship between income and economic structure is shifting over time, with countries across the income distribution uniformly increasing the share of labor in service sectors and an increasingly less stark relationship between manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968717
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Bright Lights, Big Cities : Measuring National and Subnational Economic Growth in Africa from Outer Space, with an Application to Kenya and Rwanda
Bundervoet, Tom - 2017
This paper uses the night lights (satellite imagery from outer space) approach to estimate growth in and levels of subnational 2013 gross domestic product for 47 counties in Kenya and 30 districts in Rwanda. Estimating subnational gross domestic product is consequential for three reasons. First,...
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Housing and Urbanization in Africa : Unleashing a Formal Market Process
Collier, Paul - 2017
the consequent stake in economic stability. This paper examines why such a process has not happened in Africa. The … neither the political weight nor the analytic capacity to play this role effectively. Yet in Africa, housing has never …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973218