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Reinventing the Wheel : The Economic Benefits of Wheeled Transportation in Early British Colonial West Africa
Chaves, Isaias N. - 2013
One of the great puzzles of Sub-Saharan African economic history is that wheeled transportation was barely used prior to the colonial period. Instead, head porterage was the main method of transportation. The consensus among historians is that this was a rational adaption to the underlying...
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The Surprisingly Dire Situation of Children's Education in Rural West Africa : Results from the Creo Study in Guinea-Bissau (Comprehensive Review of Education Outcomes)
Boone, Peter - 2018
We conducted a survey covering 20% of villages with 200-1000 population in rural Guinea-Bissau. We interviewed household heads, care-givers of children, and their teachers and schools. We analysed results from 9,947 children, aged 7-17, tested for literacy and numeracy competency. Only 27% of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938500
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Dust and Death : Evidence from the West African Harmattan
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2019
Using two decades of data from twelve low-income countries in West Africa, we show that dust carried by harmattan trade winds increases infant and child mortality. Health investments respond to dust exposure, consistent with compensating behaviors. Despite these efforts, surviving children still...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868210
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Dust and Death : Evidence from the West African Harmattan
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2019
Using two decades of data from twelve low-income countries in West Africa, we show that dust carried by harmattan trade winds increases infant and child mortality. Health investments respond to dust exposure, consistent with compensating behaviors. Despite these efforts, surviving children still...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868361
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Globalization and International Commodity Trade with Specific Reference to the West African Cocoa Producers
Gilbert, Christopher L.; Varangis, Panos - 2021
Liberalization of tropical agricultural markets has brought globalization, in the sense that all producers now face world rather than domestic prices. Producer prices have tended to rise as a share of fob prices as intermediation costs and tax has declined. However, in conjunction with inelastic...
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Collective Pegging to a Single Currency : the West African Monetary Union
Braga de Macedo, Jorge - 2021
The paper presents a model of a monetary union designed to illuminate monetary and exchange rate policy in the West African Monetary Union (UMOA). Emphasis is placed on the interaction of the members of UMOA with each other, through the common central bank, and on their interaction with France...
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Innovation and Foreign Ownership
Guadalupe, Maria - 2010
product and process innovation (simultaneously adopting new machines and organizational practices) and adopt foreign … technologies, leading to higher productivity. We propose a model of endogenous selection and innovation in heterogeneous firms that … jointly explains the observed selection process and the innovation decisions. Further, we show in the data that innovation on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135408
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Innovation by Entrants and Incumbents
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
We extend the basic Schumpeterian endogenous growth model by allowing incumbents to undertake innovations to improve their products, while entrants engage in more "radical" innovations to replace incumbents. Our model provides a tractable framework for the analysis of growth driven by both entry...
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Innovation and Welfare : Results from Joint Estimation of Production and Demand Functions
Jaumandreu, Jordi - 2010
that the total current period (static) welfare gains of introducing a process or a product innovation are, on average …
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On the Timing and Efficiency of Creative Destruction
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2010
process innovation. There are strong reasons why an efficient economy ought to concentrate both job creation and destruction …
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