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Abagna, Matthew Amalitinga; Hornok, Cecília; … - 2024

This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact of a prominent place-based policy - Special Economic Zones (SEZs) - on the economic well-being of African households. We compile a novel dataset on repeated cross-sections of households living in various distance bands around SEZs in 10...

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The motives for Chinese and Western countries' sovereign lending to Africa

Bode, Eckhardt - 2024

This paper is one of the first to show systematically that the motives for sovereign lending to African countries differed considerably between China and Western countries during the last two decades. While Chinese lending mainly served its own economic or geopolitical objectives, which is...

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Country, culture or competition : what drives attitudes towards immigrants in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Becker, Malte; Krüger, Finja; Heidland, Tobias - 2022

Sub-Saharan Africa is becoming an increasingly important destination for international migration. The region hosts … social security systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, host populations might fear increasing competition for resources and labor … immigrants, whose increasing presence in Africa is seen by many as the most important contemporary geopolitical shift involving …

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Heterogeneous immigrants and foreign direct investment : the role of language skills

Lücke, Matthias; Heidland, Tobias - 2015

We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD reporting countries. Applying a Poisson panel estimator to 2004-2011 data, we find a robust positive effect of bilateral immigrants on bilateral FDI - provided that residents of...

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Migration and FDI : reconciling the standard trade theory with empirical evidence

Jayet, Hubert; Marchal, Léa - 2016

This article focuses on an apparent conflict between the standard trade theory and available empirical evidence on factor flows. Theoretically, labor and capital flows must be substitutes. However, empirical papers find migration and FDI to be either substitutes or complements, depending upon...

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Oil revenues for public investment in Africa : targeting urban or rural areas?

Böhme, Marcus; Breisinger, Clemens; Schweickert, Rainer; … - 2010

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Needs-based targeting or favoritism? : the regional allocation of multilateral aid within recipient countries

Öhler, Hannes; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2013

The regional allocation of aid within recipient countries has been largely ignored in the aid allocation literature. We use geocoded data on the location of aid projects financed by the World Bank and the African Development Bank within a sample of 27 recipient countries to assess the claim of...

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