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The impact of China's "stadium diplomacy" on local economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Lindlacher, Valentin; Pirich, Gustav - 2024
This study investigates the economic impact of China's "stadium diplomacy" in Sub-Saharan Africa. Exploiting the … effects of Chinese-built and financed stadiums on local economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa, contrasting with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014456170
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Digital infrastructure and local economic development : early internet in Sub-Saharan Africa
Goldbeck, Moritz; Lindlacher, Valentin - 2024
of developing countries by analyzing nighttime light emissions across towns in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using a difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015052555
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Spatial concentration of military dictatorships in Sub-Saharan Africa (1977 - 2007)
Caruso, Raul; Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2014
-Saharan Africa from 1977 through 2007. We apply a Bayesian SAR probit regression, extended to a pooled model. We find a robust and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354777
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The democratic window of opportunity : evidence from riots in sub-Saharan Africa
Aidt, Toke; Leon, Gabriel - 2014
We show that drought-induced changes in the intensity of riots lead to moves towards democracy in sub-Saharan Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375173
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Teacher subject knowledge, didactic skills, and student learning in francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
Bietenbecker, Jan; Irmert, Natalie; Sepahvand, Mohammad H. - 2022
in francophone Sub-Saharan Africa. We use data from an international large-scale assessment in 14 countries that include …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255642
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Cultural distance and ethnic civil conflict
Guarnieri, Eleonora - 2023
Ethnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict while others do not? I show that civil conflict is explained by ethnic groups' cultural distance to the central government: an increase in cultural distance, proxied by linguistic distance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014332085
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Economic geography and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bosker, Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - 2008
The physical or absolute geography of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is often blamed for its poor economic performance. A … future economic development. -- Sub Saharan Africa ; economic development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003803503
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Nighttime lights as a proxy for human development at the local level
Brüderle, Mirjam Anna; Hodler, Roland - 2017
Nighttime lights are increasingly used by social scientists as a proxy for economic activity and economic development in subnational spatial units. However, so far, our understanding of what nighttime lights capture is limited. We construct local indicators of household wealth, education and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672453
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China and the World Bank : how contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states
Gehring, Kai; Kaplan, Lennart; Wong, Melvin H. L. - 2019
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/10012104086
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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