The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this … paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending …" countries in Africa, with attention to their economic, institutional, demographic, and social implications. Next I evaluate the …

estimators and applying a battery of robustness checks. Industrialization in Africa is driven by historical legacies such as … and adoption of digital technologies are found to have an ambiguous relationship with industrialisation in Africa. The … the negative consequences of adverse geography, improve trade facilitation to exploit learning-by-exporting from intra …

data from Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) in England we estimate dynamic fixed effects panel data models for emergency … of emergency treatment. This observation comes from a time of growing admissions and there is no guarantee that the link … between emergency and elective activity will persist if policy is effective in reducing levels of elective treatment, but our …

affect labour markets in the EU, namely i) trade, ii) foreign direct investment, and iii) migration. A main conclusion of the … study is that trade and capital movements are very unlikely to lead to an equalisation of factor prices. Thus, strong …

This paper contributes to the debate on the effects of trade versus technological change on wage differentials. We … product markets have become increasingly integrated. Moreover, it can explain why the volume of trade between developed and …

international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have …

played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …

misalignments. Intra-regional trade - both with North Africa and the rest of the continent - together with greater orientation to … the first time to North Africa, the stock-flow approach to the real equilibrium exchange rate, this paper evaluates the …