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Impact of Colonial Institutions on Economic Growth and Development in India : Evidence from Night Lights Data
Ranjan, Priya; Talathi, Karan - 2021
We study the implications of two historical institutions, direct British rule, and the heterogeneous land tenure institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using nightlights per capita as a proxy for district level per...
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Are Trade Preferences a Panacea? The African Growth and Opportunity Act and African Exports
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2019
countries. The illusion of sustained African apparel exports is created by late-bloomers in East Africa offsetting boom …-bust patterns in Southern Africa and insignificant responses in Central and West Africa. Firm-level customs data reveal that even in … East Africa the recent export growth was driven by new entrants rather than incumbent firms whose competitiveness might …
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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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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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China and the World Bank : How Contrasting Development Approaches Affect the Stability of African States
Gehring, Kai; Kaplan, Lennart C.; Wong, Melvin H.L - 2019
analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in Africa. Aid by both the World Bank and China does not increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014033178
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Geography, institutions, and the making of comparative development
Auer, Raphael A. - 2012
While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I re-examine the theories put forward by La...
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Trade Disruption, Industrialisation, and the Setting Sun of British Colonial Rule in India
Bonfatti, Roberto - 2020
Colonial trade encouraged the colonies to specialise in primary products. Did this prevent in-dustrialisation in the colonies? And did lack of industrialisation, in turn, help to keep the colonies under control? To answer these questions, we examine the impact of the temporary collapse in trade...
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Jesus Speaks Korean : Christianity and Literacy in Colonial Korea
Becker, Sascha O.; Won, Cheongyeon - 2021
In the mid 19th century, pre-colonial Korea under the Joseon dynasty was increasingly isolated and lagging behind in its economic development. Joseon Korea was forced to sign unequal treaties with foreign powers as a result of which Christian missionaries entered the country and contributed to...
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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 …
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