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Colonial legacy and poverty reduction in sub- Saharan Africa

Khan, Rumman; Morrissey, Oliver; Mosley, Paul - 2016

Although growth has improved substantially in most African countries in recent years, poverty across the continent has fallen very little in the aggregate. There have been strong poverty reduction performances in some countries, but others exhibit higher poverty rates now than in 1990 despite...

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Worker flows and the impact of labour transitions on earnings in Uganda

Kavuma, Susan Namirembe; Morrissey, Oliver; Upward, Richard - 2015

in Uganda. Using the Markov chain process, we estimate transition probability matrices and find bi …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010490260

Income diversification and household welfare in Uganda 1992-2012

Khan, Rumman; Morrissey, Oliver - 2019

We use six waves of national household surveys in Uganda, from 1992/3 to 2012/13, to study income diversification by …

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Macroeconomic management on becoming an African oil exporter

Morrissey, Oliver; Spreng, Lars - 2020

case of Ghana and applying to Uganda as a prospective exporter. The paper proceeds in two steps. First, we construct a … and Uganda and simulate the impulse response to shocks to the oil price and oil production. Second, using parameters from …). When Ghana and Uganda are importers, oil price shocks generate appreciation, mild inflation and interest rate reductions …

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African trade policy in the 1990s : political economy or technocratic reforms?

Jones, Chris (contributor); Morrissey, Oliver (contributor); … - 2008

The majority of African countries implemented import liberalisation in the 1990s. This paper explores factors that may explain the pattern of protection and of tariff reform. We consider political economy explanations, motivated specifically by the Grossman and Helpman (1994) model of protection...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728341

Aggregate and sector import price elasticities for a sample of African countries

Jones, Chris (contributor) - 2008

This paper applies panel data methods to a simple imperfect substitutes model to estimate import demand elasticities for ten African countries. The elasticities are estimated at three levels of aggregation. Firstly, we generate aggregate elasticities for each country. Secondly, we use...

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Do capital inflows hinder competitiveness? : the real exchange rate in Ethiopia

Martins, Pedro M. G. - 2010

This paper investigates the determinants of the real exchange rate (RER) in Ethiopia. In particular, it assesses whether large capital inflows (e.g. foreign aid and remittances) have an impact on the RER. This empirical exercise tries to improve the current literature in a number of ways: (i)...

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Aid absorption and spending in Africa : a panel cointegration approach

Martins, Pedro M. G. - 2010

This paper focuses on the macroeconomic management of large inflows of foreign aid. It investigates the extent to which African countries have coordinated fiscal and macroeconomic responses to aid surges. In practice, we construct a panel dataset to investigate the level of aid 'absorption' and...

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Fiscal dynamics in Ethiopia : the cointegrated VAR model with quarterly data

Martins, Pedro M. G. - 2010

This paper uses the cointegrated vector autoregressive (CVAR) model to assess the dynamic relationship between foreign aid inflows, public expenditure, revenue and domestic borrowing in Ethiopia. It departs from the existing literature by using a unique quarterly fiscal dataset (1993-2008) and...

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Food price changes and consumer welfare in Tanzania 1991 - 2007

Leyaro, Vincent; Morrissey, Oliver; Owens, Trudy - 2010

This paper analyses the effect of food price changes on household consumption (welfare) in Tanzania during the 1990s and 2000s, and simulates the welfare effect attributable to tax (tariffs and VAT) reforms, distinguishing both static (first order) and dynamic (full price) effects of price...

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