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Epidemic Exposure, Fintech Adoption, and the Digital Divide
Saka, Orkun; Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2021
who participates in this shift. We exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for some 250 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219076
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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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Rural Transformation, Inequality, and the Origins of Microfinance
Suesse, Marvin - 2019
What determines the development of rural financial markets? Starting from a simple theoretical framework, we derive the factors shaping the market entry of rural microfinance institutions across time and space. We provide empirical evidence for these determinants using the expansion of credit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857765
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What Stayers Do? Capital Endowments and On-Farm Transitions in Rural China
Wang, Hao - 2019
agriculture, little is known about the changes within the rural agricultural sector. Yet, the agricultural sector continues to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892049
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Style Consistency and Mutual Fund Returns : The Case of Russia
Bayarmaa, Adiya - 2019
This paper carries out style analysis for Russian mutual funds using monthly data from the National Managers’ Association over the period January 2008-December 2017; specifically, it applies the RSBA method developed by Sharpe (1992) for evaluating the impact of style on returns, and uses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871757
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Body Mass, Nutrition, and Disease : Current Net Nutrition During Us Economic Development
Carson, Scott A. - 2020
When other measures for material welfare are scarce or unreliable, the use of average stature and body mass index (BMI) values is common. BMI reflects the current difference between calories consumed, calories required for work, and to withstand the physical environment. This study evaluates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826046
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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
China's development model challenges the approaches of traditional Western donors like the World Bank. We argue that … 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