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Counting missing women : a reconciliation of the "flow measure" and the "stock measure"
Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2022
is among children in India and China, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in India and China. We show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471193
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Fertility in Sub-Saharan African countries with consideration to health and poverty
Jeon, Yongil (contributor); Lyu, Sang yeong (contributor);  … - 2008
Fertility has begun to fall in Sub-Saharan Africa but it remains high on average and particularly for a few countries. This paper examines African fertility using a panel data set of 47 Sub-Saharan countries between 1962 and 2003. Fixed and random country effect estimates are made in models...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003722147
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Preferential market access into the Chinese market : how good is it for Africa?
Co, Catherine Yap; Dimova, Ralitza - 2014
In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three … years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010237668
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Industrialization lessons from BRICS : a comparative analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786965
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The linkages between FDI and domestic investment : unravelling the developmental impact of foreign investment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ndikumana, Léonce (contributor);  … - 2008
While the recent increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) to African countries is a welcome development, the question remains as to the impact of these resource inflows on economic development. This study posits that a key channel of the impact of FDI on development is through its effects on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652696
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What drives attitudes toward immigrants in Sub-Saharan Africa? : evidence from Uganda and Senegal
Becker, Malte; Krüger, Finja; Heidland, Tobias - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014462137
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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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The effect on foreign direct investment of membership in the European Union
Bruno, Randolph; Campos, Nauro; Estrin, Saul - 2020
This paper explores the impact of EU membership on foreign direct investment (FDI). It analyses empirically how the effects of such deep integration differ from other forms and investigates what drives these effects. Using a structural gravity framework on annual bilateral FDI data for almost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288695
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Food aid and violent conflict : a review of literature
Koppenberg, Maximilian; Mishra, Ashok K.; Hirsch, Stefan - 2023
We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014423470
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Hit by the silk road : how wage coordination in Europe mitigates the China shock
Barth, Erling; Finseraas, Henning; Kjelsrud, Anders; … - 2020
economy. We test this theory by exploring within-country variation in exposure to competition from China in 13 European … exposure from China experienced a marked fall in employment, while countries with wage-coordination experienced no such …
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