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Can digital information and communication technology (ICT) foster mass political mobilization? We use a novel geo-referenced dataset for the entire African continent between 1998 and 2012 on the coverage of mobile phone signal together with georeferenced data from multiple sources on the...
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with the literature arguing that greater trade openness would unequivocally lead to higher growth in Africa. -- openness …
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cointegration relationship when country groups are considered. -- Africa ; energy consumption ; economic growth ; panel …
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spatial resolution of 0.5o x 0.5o for all Africa over 1997-2010. Exploiting exogenous variations in world prices, we find a …-cycle) explains 15-25 percent of average country-level violence in Africa. We then document how the appropriation of a mining area by …
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African countries over the period 1988-2010. Our results show that growth and energy use are strongly linked in Africa … may work for all countries in Africa. …
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We combine a novel measure of export-related financial needs at the product level with a unique database of firm-product export data (including names of the exporting firms) from five developing countries. Using the tools of survival analysis and taking into account firms' and products'...
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-to-date information about the cyclical stage of the global economy and of major emerging and developing regions including Africa …
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China's increased trade with and investment in Africa have boosted the continent's economic growth but have also … generated considerable controversy. In this paper we investigate China's outward direct investment ODI in Africa using macro and … registered Chinese firms investing in Africa between 1998 and 2012. We use key words in project descriptions to code the …
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suitable for application to Africa. The model allows for variation in both the level of contract enforcement (depending on the …
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Several African countries have to increase their tax revenues to finance human and economic development. General consumption taxes, such as VATs, are the preferred instrument for doing so, because they are less detrimental to growth than income taxes. To enable their use, VAT design has to be...
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