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Economic geography and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bosker, E. Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - 2008
The physical or absolute geography of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is often blamed for its poor economic performance. A country's location however not only determines its absolute geography, it also pins down its relative position on the globe vis-à-vis other countries. This paper assesses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271851
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Uncertainty and Hyperinflation: European Inflation Dynamics after World War I
Lopez, Jose A.; Mitchener, Kris James - 2018
Fiscal deficits, elevated debt-to-GDP ratios, and high inflation rates suggest hyperinflation could have potentially emerged in many European countries after World War I. We demonstrate that economic policy uncertainty was instrumental in pushing a subset of European countries into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872123
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Are trade preferences a panacea? The African growth and opportunity act and African exports
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Maemir, Hibret; Mattoo, Aaditya; … - 2019
whether preferential access boosts exports of eligible products in general and apparel specifically. The end of the Multi … data at the country-product-year level (1992-2017). The analysis finds that AGOA boosted African apparel exports and the … GSP expansion increased African exports of other eligible products. While the marginal impacts on African apparel exports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052778
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Are Trade Preferences a Panacea? The African Growth and Opportunity Act and African Exports
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2019
whether preferential access boosts exports of eligible products in general and apparel specifically. The end of the Multi … data at the country-product-year level (1992-2017). The analysis finds that AGOA boosted African apparel exports and the … GSP expansion increased African exports of other eligible products. While the marginal impacts on African apparel exports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866374
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Spatial Diffusion of Economic Shocks in Networks
Amarasinghe, Ashani; Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A.; … - 2018
mineral mines and exogenous time variation in world mineral prices. Our results show that road and ethnic connectivity are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872058
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Economic Challenges in the Anthropocene
Musu, Ignazio - 2013
The evolution during the Anthropocene is analyzed through the interaction between economic and technological development, characterized by the role of fossil fuels and by the progressive dominance of those with a higher energy and density power. The challenge is how to make the rising demand for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328858
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Minorities, Human Capital and Long-Run Development: Persistence of Armenian and Greek Influence in Turkey
Arbatli, Cemal Eren; Gokmen, Gunes - 2016
We study the long-term economic legacy of highly-skilled minorities a century after their wholesale expulsion. Using mass expulsions of Armenian and Greek communities of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century as a unique natural experiment of history, we show that districts with greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584967
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The Farmer, the Blue-collar, and the Monk: Understanding Economic Development through Saturations of Demands and Non-Homothetic Productivity Gains
Gray, Elie; Grimaud, André; Le Bris, David - 2018
the relative evolutions of prices across sectors. Reasonable calibration generates results quantitatively close to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872027
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Was Freedom Road a Dead End? Political and Socio-Economic Effects of Reconstruction in the American South
Frieden, Jeffry; Grossman, Richard S.; Lowery, Daniel - 2024
We investigate how Reconstruction affected Black political participation and socio-economic advancement after the American Civil War. We use the location of federal troops and Freedmen's Bureau offices to indicate more intensive federal enforcement of civil rights. We find greater political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534278
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Ethnic Inequality and Economic Growth: Evidence from Harmonized Satellite Data
Gründler, Klaus; Link, Andreas - 2024
Inequality between ethnic groups has been shown to be negatively related to GDP, but research on its effect on contemporary economic growth is limited by the availability of comparable data. We compile a novel and comprehensive dataset of harmonized Gini indices on ethnic inequality for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534333