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China's Growing Economic Activity in Africa
Besada, Hany - 2008
Trade between the whole of Africa and China (imports and exports summed) grew from $10.6 billion to $73.3 billion … between 2000 and 2007, and between Sub-Saharan Africa and China from $7 billion to $59 billion over the same period. China is … million in 1990 to $2.6 billion in 2006. On the basis of these data, one frequently hears the claim that China is now a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771826
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Housing Prices, Inter-Generational Co-Residence, and “Excess” Savings by the Young : Evidence Using Chinese Data
Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2019
their individual savings rates by age. Using unique data from China that enable the re-construction of whole families and … young in China would be 21% lower if housing prices were at the same ratio to disposable incomes as that observed in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863690
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The Unofficial Economy in Africa
La Porta, Rafael - 2011
We examine the productivity of informal firms (those that are not registered with the government) in 24 African countries using field work and World Bank firm level data. We find that productivity jumps sharply if we compare small formal firms to informal firms, and rises rapidly with the size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129131
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Agoa Rules : The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Special Fabric Provisions
Edwards, Lawrence - 2011
locally. When the MFA was removed, constrained countries such as China moved strongly into precisely the markets in which AGOA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132068
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Climate and Civil War : Is the Relationship Robust?
Burke, Marshall - 2010
A recent paper by Burke et al. (henceforth "we") finds a strong historical relationship between warmer- than-average temperatures and the incidence of civil war in Africa (Burke et al. 2009). These findings have recently been challenged by Buhaug (2010) who finds fault with how we controlled for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137308
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The Impact of the Aids Pandemic on Health Services in Africa : Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys
Case, Anne - 2012
We document the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS related health services in fourteen sub-Saharan African countries. Using multiple waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for each country, we examine antenatal care, birth deliveries, and rates of immunization for children born between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117036
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The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2011
We examine the long-run consequences of ethnic partitioning, a neglected aspect of the Scramble for Africa, and uncover the following regularities. First, apart from the land mass and presence of water bodies, historical homelands of split and non-split groups are similar across many observable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118126
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The Contribution of Chinese FDI to Africa's Pre Crisis Growth Surge
Weisbrod, Aaron - 2011
In the 3 years before the 2008 Financial Crisis, GDP growth in sub Saharan Africa (averaged over individual economies) was around 6%, or 2 percentage points above mean growth rates for the preceding 10 years. This period also coincided with significant Chinese FDI flows into these countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119043
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Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2011
We investigate jointly the importance of contemporary country-level institutional structures and local ethnic-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial distribution of African ethnicities before colonization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122873
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The Political Economy of Government Revenues in Post-Conflict Resource-Rich Africa : Liberia and Sierra Leone
Davies, Victor A. B. - 2012
This paper examines the post-war strategies of Liberia and Sierra Leone to generate revenues from their natural resources. We document the challenges faced by the government of the two countries, contrasting measures taken to address these challenges as well as the outcomes. We complement the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097782