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In this paper we evaluate the impact of colonialism on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the world context … negative effect on development in Africa. To develop this claim we distinguish between three sorts of colonies: (1) those which …
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-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial …
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celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey …In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a … contrasts the predominant "transformational" approach (West saves Africa) to occasional swings to a "marginal" approach (West …
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broad analytical overview of major exogenous shocks and shifts in macroeconomic policy and institutions in Israel since the … driving forces behind the need for across-the-broad-coalition for a successful stabilization policy; (4) the effects of …
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The paper stresses the evolutionary and adaptive experience of Latin American growth between 1950 and 1980, and provides a synthetic view by considering the sources of growth within a simple production framework. Regressions use quinquennial panel data for 18 Latin American countries.They...
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Although institutions are believed to be key determinants of economic performance, there is limited evidence on how they can be successfully reformed. Evaluating the effects of specific reforms is complicated by the lack of exogenous variation in the presence of institutions; the difficulty of...
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We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of institutions trumps' everything else. Once institutions are...
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Whereas traditional explanations of differences in long-run paths of development across the Americas generally point to the significance of differences in national heritage or religion, we highlight the relevance of stark contrasts in the degree of inequality in wealth, human capital, and...
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Africa and Sweden to illustrate that inequality dynamics cannot be understood without embedding economic factors in the …
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Africa or those farther away from the equator do not have lower incomes …
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