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Borderline disorder: (de facto) historical ethnic borders and contemporary conflict in Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020
We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294782
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Does official development assistance affect donor's export? : case of Korea
Noh, Bobae; Heshmati, Almas - 2017
This paper aims to estimate the impact of bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by Korea on its bilateral export to recipient countries. The empirical analysis is based on data from 1996 to 2014 with 121 recipient countries. Although the two models of determinants of ODA and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612988
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Detailed geographic information, conflict exposure, and health impacts
Akresh, Richard; Caruso, Germán; Thirumurthy, Harsha - 2016
We estimate the impact of exposure to conflict on health outcomes using geographic information on households' distance … from conflict sites - a more accurate measure of shock exposure – and compare the impact on children exposed in utero … versus after birth. The identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in the conflict's geographic extent and timing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580590
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An injury to one is an injury to all : terrorism's spillover effects on bilateral trade
Pham, Cong S.; Doucouliagos, Chris - 2017
In this paper we investigate whether the effects of terrorism in one country spillover to affect trade in neighboring nations. Using a sample of more than 160 countries from 1976 to 2014, we report robust evidence that terrorist attacks in a nation's contiguous neighbors significantly reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694823
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(De facto) historical ethnic borders and land tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023
We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249737
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Youth employment in Africa : new evidence and policies from Swaziland
Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry - 2013
Drawing on the 2007 and 2010 Swaziland Labor Force Surveys, this paper provides first systematic evidence on recent youth employment challenges in Swaziland, a small, land-locked, middle-income country with one of the highest youth unemployment rates in Africa. The paper first documents the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763235
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Skills and youth entrepreneurship in Africa : analysis with evidence from Swaziland
Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli; Bicaba, Zorobabel - 2014
The shortages of entrepreneurial skills have lowered search effectiveness of potential young entrepreneurs and the rate of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a model of costly firm creation and skill differences between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358262
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Selection and absolute advantage in farming and entrepreneurship
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; Amodio, Francesco; … - 2019
Output per worker is lower in poor countries than in rich countries, and relatively more so in the agricultural sector. Sorting of heterogeneous workers can contribute to explain this fact if comparative and absolute advantage are aligned in agriculture, implying that average productivity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153418
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Auf dem Weg zu einer neuen Asien-Strategie : Mitteilung der Kommission an den Rat
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