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The Trade and FDI Effects of EMU Enlargement
Brouwer, J.; Paap, Richard; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2021
This paper considers the nature and the distribution of trade and FDI effects of a potential enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) to the ten countries that obtained EU membership in 2004. One-way and two-way error component gravity models are estimated using a dataset of unbalanced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316812
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FDI and the Relevance of Spatial Linkages : Do Third Country Effects Matter for Dutch FDI?
Garretsen, Harry - 2013
The aim of this paper is to test for the relevance of spatial linkages for Dutch (outbound) FDI. To do so, and based on recent FDI theories, we estimate a spatial lag model to assess the importance of spatial linkages for Dutch FDI to 18 host countries. As a determinant of FDI, space or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753723
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A convex hull approach to counterfactual analysis of trade openness and growth
Funke, Michael; Gronwald, Marc - 2009
with the literature arguing that greater trade openness would unequivocally lead to higher growth in Africa. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265984
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Economic Globalisation and Africa's Quest for Greener and More Inclusive Growth : The Missing Link
Ofori, Isaac K; Freytag, Andreas; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2023
inclusive green growth (IGG) relationship in Africa. Based on macro data for 22 African countries and the Driscoll …-Kraay standard errors with fixed effects instrumental variable regression, the following findings are established. First, Africa … threshold analysis suggests that by improving Africa’s mostly unfree economic architecture to 60% (moderately free) or 80% (free …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347989
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Droughts and Malnutrition in Africa
Fingado, Nora; Poelhekke, Steven - 2023
How costly are droughts to individuals’ nutrition in Africa? We measure severe droughts using a detailed satellite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014357628
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China and the World Bank - How Contrasting Development Approaches Affect the Stability of African States
Gehring, Kai - 2019
analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in Africa. Aid by both the WB and China does not increase outright …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861418
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Weather Shocks and Migration Intentions in Western Africa : Insights from a Multilevel Analysis
Bertoli, Simone - 2020
We use a multilevel approach to characterize the relationship between weather shocks and (internal and international) migration intentions. We combine individual survey data on migration intentions with measures of localized weather shocks for Western African countries over 2008-2016. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842387
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892107
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892135
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Measuring Ethnic Stratification and its Effect on Trust in Africa
Hodler, Roland - 2019
institutions at the local level in Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892176