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Civil wars beyond their borders: the human capital and health consequences of hosting refugees
Baez, Javier E. - 2008
Between 1993 and 1994, extremist militia groups carried out the extermination of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the genocides of Burundi and Rwanda. Nearly one million people were killed and thousands were forcibly uprooted from their homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a...
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Brainy Africans to fortress Europe: for money or colonial vestiges?
Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N. - 2009
by sub-regions, the magnitude of the colonial vestige in Africa is a significant determinant of emigration flows. Overall …
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The dynamics of women's labour supply in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia; Umaña-Aponte, Marcela - 2010
but positive in Africa. We suggest that amongst reasons why African women behave differently are that the conventional … non-employment. In Africa, there is a decline in paid employment which overwhelms the rise in self-employment and this is …
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A labor market approach to the crisis of health care professionals in Africa
Andalón, Mabel; Fields, Gary - 2011
Africa. Five challenges resulting from this crisis are identified: a production challenge, an underutilization challenge, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274635
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Changing fertility preferences one migrant at a time: the impact of remittances on the fertility rate
Naufal, George S.; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2009
In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later transmit to the household the ideas, values and...
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How large is the private sector in Africa? Evidence from national accounts and labor markets
Stampini, Marco; Leung, Ron; Diarra, Setou M.; Pla, … - 2011
In recent years, the private sector has been recognized as a key engine of Africa's economic development. Yet, the most … sector countries are concentrated in Western Africa (Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Niger, Senegal and Togo), Central Africa … (Cameroun, Republic of Congo) and Eastern Africa (Kenya, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania), with the addition of Mauritius. Countries …
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Heterogeneity in subjective wellbeing: An application to occupational allocation in Africa
Falco, Paolo; Maloney, William F.; Rijkers, Bob; … - 2012
By exploiting recent advances in mixed (stochastic parameter) ordered probit estimators and a unique longitudinal dataset from Ghana, this paper examines the distribution of subjective wellbeing across sectors of employment and offers insights into the functioning of developing country labor...
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The effects of "girl-friendly" schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT school construction program in Burkina Faso
Kazianga, Harounan; Levy, Dan; Linden, Leigh L.; Sloan, Matt - 2012
We evaluate the causal effects of a program that constructed high quality girl-friendly primary schools in Burkina Faso, using a regression discontinuity design 2.5 years after the program started. We find that the program increased enrollment of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 by 20...
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The impact of aid on growth revisited: do donor motives matter?
Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - 2009
The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269176
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Reputations, relationships and the enforcement of incomplete contracts
MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2006
This paper discusses the literature on the enforcement of incomplete contracts. It compares legal enforcement to enforcement via relationships and reputations. A number of mechanisms, such as the repeat purchase mechanism (Klein and Leffler (1981)) and efficiency wages (Shapiro and Stiglitz...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267674