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Can the West Save Africa?
Easterly, William - 2008
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 …
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Trade Growth under the African Growth and Opportunity Act
Frazer, Garth - 2007
This paper explores whether one of the most important U.S. policies towards Africa of the past few decades achieved its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465432
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AGOA Rules : The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Special Fabric Provisions
Edwards, Lawrence - 2010
But the disappointments can also be attributed to the preferences because they discouraged additional value-addition in assembly and stimulated the use of expensive fabrics that were unlikely to be produced locally. When the MFA was removed, constrained countries such as China moved strongly...
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The Determinants of Food Aid Provisions to Africa and the Developing World
Nunn, Nathan - 2010
We examine the supply-side and demand-side determinants of global bilateral food aid shipments between 1971 and 2008. First, we find that domestic food production in developing countries is negatively correlated with subsequent food aid receipts, suggesting that food aid receipt is partly driven...
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Return on Returns : Building Scientific Capacity in AIDS Endemic Countries
Fry, Caroline; Ganguli, Ina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate spillovers from public funding for health research in the context of the NIH's Fogarty International Center's AIDS International Training and Research Program, which aims to strengthen scientific capacity in AIDS endemic countries by providing African researchers with training...
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Natural Openness and Good Government
Wei, Shang-Jin - 2000
This paper offers a new interpretation of the connection between openness and good governance. Assuming that corruption and bad governance drive out international trade and investment more than domestic trade and investment, a naturally more open economy' as determined by its size and geography...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470985
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Motivating Politicians : The Impacts of Monetary Incentives on Quality and Performance
Ferraz, Claudio - 2009
Recent studies have emphasized the importance of the quality of politicians for good government and consequently economic performance. But if the quality of leadership matters, then understanding what motivates individuals to become politicians and perform competently in office becomes a central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463743
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Sovereign Wealth Funds : Stylized Facts about their Determinants and Governance
Aizenman, Joshua - 2008
This paper presents statistical analysis supporting stylized facts about sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). It discusses the forces leading to the growth of SWFs, including the role of fuel exports and ongoing current account surpluses, and large hoarding of international reserves. It analyzes the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464086
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Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries
Alesina, Alberto - 2008
This paper has three goals. The first (and perhaps the most important one) is to provide a new compilation of data on ethnic, linguistic and religious composition at the sub-national level for a large number of countries. This data set allows us to measure segregation of different ethnic,...
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Second-Best Institutions
Rodrik, Dani - 2008
The focus of policy reform in developing countries has moved from getting prices right to getting institutions right, and accordingly countries are increasingly being advised to move towards "best-practice" institutions. This paper argues that appropriate institutions for developing countries...
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