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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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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 …
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Economic globalisation and Africa's quest for greener and more inclusive growth : the missing link
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Freytag, Andreas; Asongu, Simplice - 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 …
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Spatial diffusion of economic shocks in networks
Amarasinghe, Ashani; Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A.; … - 2018
local economic shocks across Africa. We further show how counterfactual exercises based on these estimates and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011825329
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Polygyny, inequality, and social unrest
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura - 2020
This paper proposes three theoretical mechanisms through which polygyny may be related to social unrest. The mechanisms are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012206058
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Polygyny, inequality, and social unrest
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura - 2021
This paper proposes three theoretical mechanisms through which polygyny may be related to social unrest. The mechanisms are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013326493
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Growth and inequality : evidence from transitional economies
Ivaschenko, Oleksiy - 2002
The transitional economies of Eastern Europe (EE) and the former Soviet Union (FSU) experienced a dramatic increase in income inequality in the 1990s. In this paper I investigate the causes of unprecedented changes in income distribution using a unique panel of inequality estimates for 24...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410420
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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...
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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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Maize and precolonial Africa
Cherniwchan, Jevan; Moreno Cruz, Juan - 2018
. We study an overlooked part of this Columbian Exchange: the effects of New World crops in Africa. Specifically, we test … Africa. We find robust empirical support for these predictions. We also find little evidence to suggest maize increased …
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