Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 647
Cover Image
Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development : In and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011
This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa's peculiar history … influence, in and out of Africa, of the slave trades. The essay ends with critical conclusions and suggestions for further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122110
Cover Image
The Legacies of Slavery in and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this …" countries in Africa, with attention to their economic, institutional, demographic, and social implications. Next I evaluate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016389
Cover Image
Growth and Poverty in Africa : Shifting Fortunes and New Perspectives
Shimeles, Abebe - 2015
Growth has been high and widespread in the last decade in Africa. Whether this shift in Africa's fortune has impacted … Africa and addresses whether or not previously held belief that Africa is too poor to grow is relevant today. The findings … employment, particularly to increase in employment in the industrial sector, than to increase in mean income. In Africa the co …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030863
Cover Image
Rapid Economic Growth But Rising Poverty Segregation : Will Vietnam Meet the Sdgs for Equitable Development?
Dang, Hai-Anh; Dhongde, Shatakshee; Do, Minh; Nguyen, … - 2023
Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few decades. Yet, recent evidence indicates that the country's economic growth has not been uniform. Compiling and analyzing new extensive province-level data from the Vietnam...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255737
Cover Image
Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F. - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051452
Cover Image
Can Intra-Regional Trade Act as a Global Shock Absorber in Africa?
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2015
The global financial crisis and the subsequent uneven recovery have underscored the need for Africa's resilience to … African Community (EAC) and the Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU) – suggests that deeper intra-regional, and in particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016290
Cover Image
The Long-Term Determinants of Female HIV Infection in Africa : The Slave Trade, Polygyny, and Sexual Behavior
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
We study the long-term determinants of the high rates of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016394
Cover Image
Re-Orient? MNC Penetration and Contemporary Shifts in the Global Political Economy
Tausch, Arno - 2009
This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the Re-orient approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155598
Cover Image
Migration, Innovation, and Growth : An African Story?
Mbaye, Linguère - 2019
This chapter brings new evidence on innovation in Africa and its relationship with short-term labour mobility. Using … may run counter to common perceptions of Africa as a region where innovation is lacklustre. The most innovative African … countries are mainly located in East Africa, highlighting the dynamism of this area. Innovation there is typically about process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863821
Cover Image
The Rise of China's Global Middle Class in International Perspective
Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn - 2022
Defining the 'global middle class' as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China's expanding middle class in international perspective. China's global middle class has grown rapidly and has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087986