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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 …

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Capital Fundamentalism and Structural Transformation

Tohari, Achmad; Parsons, Christopher Robert; Rammohan, Anu - 2021

We revisit the role of Capital Fundamentalism, in the context of the Government of Indonesia's Inpres Desa Tertinggal (IDT or Left Behind Village) Program, which injected capital into poor village economies. We evaluate the impact of the program on village welfare and structural transformation...

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Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction : Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda

Christiaensen, Luc - 2017

This review is framed around the exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public investment towards secondary towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance. Of course the hypothesis raises many questions. What exactly is the dichotomy of secondary towns versus big...

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Migration and Urbanisation in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Bakker, Jan - 2016

restrictions. Exploting this exogenous variation, we study the effect of migration on urbanisation and the distribution of … migration shocks can foster urbanisation in the medium run …

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Access to Finance Among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Job Creation in Africa

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2020

-Saharan Africa. It first presents a model where firm creation requires entrepreneurial search and paying the start-up costs, while …

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Growth, History, or Institutions? What Explains State Fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2010

We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic …

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Are the East African Community's Countries Ready for a Common Currency?

Kigabo, Thomas; Heshmati, Almas - 2022

This paper investigates the East African Community (EAC) partner states' readiness for a common currency. It uses recent data to assess the impact of policy coordination in the region during the last seven years of East African Monetary Union's protocol implementation. Despite some similarities...

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Employment Protection, Firm Selection, and Growth

Poschke, Markus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth. For thispurpose, a model of endogenous growth through selection and imitation is developed. It isconsistent with recent evidence on firm dynamics and on the importance of reallocation forproductivity growth...

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Product Market Regulation, Firm Selection andUnemployment

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Prat, Julien - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper analyzes the effect of Product Market Regulation (PMR) on unemployment in asearch model with heterogeneous multiple-worker firms. In our setup, PMR modifies thedistribution of firm productivities, thereby affecting the equilibrium rate of unemployment...

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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemployment and Informality in Developing Economies

Charlot, Olivier - 2011

This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general framework where formal and informal firms are subject to the same externalities, differing only with respect to some parameter values. Both formal and informal firms have monopoly...

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