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Understanding Transitory Rainfall Shocks, Economic Growth and Civil Conflict
Miguel, Edward - 2010
Miguel, Satyanath and Sergenti (2004) use rainfall variation as an instrument to show that economic growth is negatively related to civil conflict in sub-Saharan Africa. In the reduced form regression they find that higher rainfall is associated with less conflict. Ciccone (2010) claims that...
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Exporting Raises Productivity in Sub-Saharan African Manufacturing Plants
Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - 2021
status on productivity for a panel of manufacturing plants in nine African countries. The results indicate that exporters in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227223
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Kinship and Conflict : Evidence from Segmentary Lineage Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa
Moscona, Jacob - 2018
We test the long-standing hypothesis that ethnic groups that are organized around ‘segmentary lineages' are more prone to conflict. Ethnographic accounts suggest that in segmentary lineage societies, which are characterized by strong allegiances to distant relatives, individuals are obligated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930336
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Real Business Cycles in Emerging Countries?
Garcia Cicco, Javier - 2010
We use more than one century of Argentine and Mexican data to estimate the structural parameters of a small-open-economy real-business-cycle model driven by nonstationary productivity shocks. We find that the RBC model does a poor job at explaining business cycles in emerging countries. We then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760602
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Growth Economics and Reality
Brock, William A.; Durlauf, Steven N. - 2021
This paper questions current empirical practice in the study of growth. We argue that much of the modern empirical growth literature is based on assumptions concerning regressors, residuals, and parameters which are implausible both from the perspective of economic theory as well as from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222634
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Why Not Africa?
Freeman, Richard B.; Lindauer, David L. - 2021
Various arguments have been used to explain Sub-Saharan Africa's economic decline. We find that a stress on investments in education as a prerequisite for more rapid growth is misplaced; that greater openness is far from sufficient to insure economic progress; that income inequality and urban bias...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222904
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The Economic Tragedy of the Xxth Century : Growth in Africa
Vila-Artadi, Elsa; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2021
The dismal growth performance of Africa is the worst economic tragedy of the XXth century. We document the evolution of per capita GDP for the continent as a whole and for subset of countries south of the Sahara desert. We document the worsening of various income inequality indexes and we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223305
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Trade Policy and Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa
Rodrik, Dani - 2021
This study focuses on the role of trade and trade policy in achieving sustained long-term growth in Africa. One major conclusion is that trade policy in Sub-Saharan Africa works much the same way that it does elsewhere. High levels of trade restrictions have been an important obstacle to exports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224680
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Generalized Moments Estimation for Panel Data
Druska, Viliam; Horrace, William C. - 2021
This paper considers estimation of a panel data model with disturbances that are autocorrelated across cross … estimate spatial dependence parameters. For the case where the time dimension is small (the usual panel data case), we develop … Kelejian and Prucha. We apply this approach in a stochastic frontier framework to a panel of Indonesian rice farms where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232767
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Stock Markets, Banks, and Growth : Panel Evidence
Beck, Thorsten; Levine, Ross - 2021
This paper investigates the impact of stock markets and banks on economic growth using a panel data set for the period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231409