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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 …

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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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When is a state predatory?

Robinson, James A. - 1999

I argue that whether or not a state is predatory hinges on the relationship between development and the distribution of political power in society. Development is typically inconsistent with the preservation of the political status quo and this gives those who initially hold political power an...

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Are trade preferences a panacea? : the African growth and opportunity act and African exports

Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Maemir, Hibret; Mattoo, Aaditya; … - 2019

countries. The illusion of sustained African apparel exports is created by late-bloomers in East Africa offsetting boom …-bust patterns in Southern Africa and insignificant responses in Central and West Africa. Firm-level customs data reveal that even in … East Africa the recent export growth was driven by new entrants rather than incumbent firms whose competitiveness might …

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Aid on demand : African leaders and the geography of China's foreign assistance

Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2015

development finance projects across 3,097 physical locations committed to Africa over the 2000-2012 period. Our econometric …

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Aid, growth and devolution

Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2009

This paper examines whether the federal structure of aid-receiving countries matters in explaining aid effectiveness. Following the decentralization theorem, the devolution of powers should increase aid effectiveness, since local decision-makers are better informed about local needs. At the same...

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Does female empowerment promote economic development?

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - 2014

Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to fathers) increases expenditures on children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non-cooperative model of household decision making to...

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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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The out of Africa hypothesis of comparative economic development : common misconceptions

Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2019

The importance of the prehistoric migration of anatomically modern humans from Africa for comparative economic …

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