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Can the West Save Africa?
Easterly, William - 2021
In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a … celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey … contrasts the predominant "transformational" approach (West saves Africa) to occasional swings to a "marginal" approach (West …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210668
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Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations
Spolaore, Enrico - 2012
We document an empirical relationship between the cross-country adoption of technologies and the degree of long-term historical relatedness between human populations. Historical relatedness is measured using genetic distance, a measure of the time since two populations' last common ancestors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114316
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Nationalism and Economic Exchange : Evidence from Shocks to Sino-Japanese Relations
Fisman, Raymond J. - 2014
We study the impact of nationalism and interstate frictions on international economic relations by analyzing market reaction to adverse shocks to Sino-Japanese relations in 2005 and 2010. Japanese companies with high China exposure suffer relative declines during each event window; a symmetric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054515
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Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War
Berger, Daniel - 2010
We exploit the recent declassification of CIA documents and examine whether there is evidence of US power being used to influence countries' decisions regarding international trade. We measure US influence using a newly constructed annual panel of CIA interventions aimed at installing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143469
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Cape Verde and Mozambique as Development Successes in West and Southern Africa
Braga de Macedo, Jorge - 2010
Southern Africa. We then assess to what extent these combinations apply to both countries using an empirical analysis. We find … that trade openness drives convergence and export diversification in Western Africa (which is becoming more diversified …) while convergence is instead driven by economic and political freedoms in Southern Africa (which is becoming more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135763
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Policy Uncertainty, Persistence and Growth
Aizenman, Joshua - 2010
This paper explores links between policy uncertainty and growth. It provides evidence on the correlation between policy uncertainty and per capita real GDP for 46 developing countries over the 1970-85 period. Cross-section regressions on growth suggest that after accounting for standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141088
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Trade, Foreign Investment, and Industrial Policy for Developing Countries
Harrison, Ann E. - 2010
In this paper we explore the popular but controversial idea that developing countries benefit from abandoning policy neutrality vis-a-vis trade, FDI and resource allocation across industries. Are developing countries justified in imposing tariffs, subsidies, and tax breaks that imply distortions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151144
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Forty Years of Latin America'S Economic Development : From the Alliance for Progress to the Washington Consensus
Edwards, Sebastian - 2010
In this paper I analyze the evolution of economic and social conditions in Latin America from the 1950s through the 1980s, when deep external crises erupted in country after country. The point of departure of our story is the political awakening of the region in the late 1950s and early 1960s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151815
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Experimentation at Scale
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2017
This paper makes the case for greater use of randomized experiments “at scale.” We review various critiques of experimental program evaluation in developing countries, and discuss how experimenting at scale along three specific dimensions – the size of the sampling frame, the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945148
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Is the Washington Consensus Dead? Growth, Openness, and the Great Liberalization, 1970s-2000s
Estevadeordal, Antoni - 2010
According to the Washington Consensus, developing countries? growth would benefit from a reduction in tariffs and other barriers to trade. But a backlash against this view now suggests that trade policies have little or no impact on growth. If quot;getting policies rightquot; is wrong or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758491