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Follow the money : does the financial sector intermediate natural resource windfalls?
Beck, Thorsten; Poelhekke, Steven - 2017 - This version: 18 February 2017
The need to absorb windfalls gains and manage them appropriately has been discussed extensively by academics and policy makers alike. We explore the role of the financial sector in intermediating these windfalls. Controlling for the level of financial development, inflation, GDP growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615740
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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966676
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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 …
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