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An assessment of the impact of HIV/AIDS on economic growth : the case of Kenya

Were, Maureen; Nafula, Nancy N. - 2003

HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa has been closely associated with adverse economic effects, and could thwart the success of … poverty reduction initiatives. HIV/AIDS is fast eroding the health benefits, which Kenya gained in the first two decades of … independence. The paper explores the different channels through which HIV/AIDS affects economic growth in a low-income country like …

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Hurricanes, economic growth and transmission channels : empirical evidence for developed and underdeveloped countries

Berlemann, Michael; Wenzel, Daniela - 2016

While the short-term growth consequences of natural disasters are comparatively well studied, there is little knowledge how disasters affect long-run growth. Based on truly exogenous storm indicators, derived from a meteorological database, we show that the growth effects of tropical storms go...

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Economic development and structural change : the role of services

Debús, Carlos; Delbianco, Fernando - In: Journal of economic development 46 (2021) 3, pp. 65-84

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Enhancing economic growth impact of financial development and human capital through capital flows in sub-Saharan Africa

Oyinlola, Abimbola M.; Adedeji, Abdulfatai Adekunle - In: Journal of economic development 45 (2020) 2, pp. 95-114

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Roots of autocracy

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017

Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of human from Africa tens of...

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Inclusive finance, growth and socio-economic development in Saudi Arabia : a threshold cointegration approach

Hathroubi, Salem - In: Journal of economic development 44 (2019) 2, pp. 77-111

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Is favoritism a threat to Chinese aid effectiveness? : A subnational analysis of Chinese development projects

Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2019

Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...

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Insurance market development and macroeconomic interactions in twenty-six countries

Pradhan, Rudra Prakash; Arvin, B. Mak; Hall, John; … - In: Journal of economic development 42 (2017) 4, pp. 23-57

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Impact of colonial institutions on economic growth and development in India : evidence from night lights data

Jha, Priyaranjan; 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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Machine learning indices, political institutions, and economic development

Gründler, Klaus; Krieger, Tommy - 2018

We present a new aggregation method - called SVM algorithm - and use this technique to produce novel measures of democracy (186 countries, 1960-2014). The method takes its name from a machine learning technique for pattern recognition and has three notable features: it makes functional...

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