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Windfall Management for Poverty Reduction : Improving Public Finance Management, The Case of Chad

Toto Same, Achille - 2012

This paper aims at providing a guide to ensure efficiency in the management of Chad's windfall to support the …. The paper also discusses the petroleum management arrangements in place in Chad for poverty reduction. The author argues … that the successful management of Chad's windfall for poverty reduction will depend on the effectiveness of oil revenue …

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Dutch Disease and Spending Strategies in a Resource-Rich Low-income Country : The Case of Niger

Go, Delfin S.; Robinson, Sherman; Thierfelder, Karen - 2014

implications to Niger relative to its expanding mineral sector. The key to the benefits of significant mineral revenue lies with …

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Bypassing Health Providers : The Quest for Better Price and Quality of Health Care in Chad

Gauthier, Bernard; Wane, Waly - 2012

This paper investigates individuals' bypassing behavior in the health sector in Chad and the determinants of … Service Delivery Survey in Chad's health sector carried out in 2004. The survey covers 281 primary health care centers and 1 … bypassing activities in Chad: (1) patients from low-income households bypass high-quality facilities they cannot afford to go to …

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Leakage of Public Resources in the Health Sector : An Empirical Investigation of Chad

Gauthier, Bernard; Wane, Waly - 2012

health sector in Chad, and its effects on the prices of drugs. The analysis uses data collected in Chad as part of a Health …

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Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Lake Chad Region

Lebrand, Mathilde - 2022

development in the Lake Chad Region. Using data on the expansion of the paved road, electricity, and Internet networks over the … Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad …

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Patterns of Export Diversification in Developing Countries : Intensive and Extensive Margins

Amurgo-Pacheco, Alberto; Pierola, Martha Denisse - 2012

This paper uses highly disaggregated trade data to investigate geographic and product diversification patterns across a group of developing nations for the period from 1990 to 2005. The econometric investigation shows that the gravity equation fits the observed differences in diversification...

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Domestic Constraints, Firm Characteristics, and Geographical Diversification of Firm-Level Manufacturing Exports in Africa

Yoshino, Yutaka - 2012

Using firm-level data on manufacturing sectors in Africa, this paper addresses how domestic supply constraints and other firm characteristics explain the geographical orientation of firms' exports and the overall market diversification of African manufacturing exports. The degree of market...

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Multi-Product Exporters : Diversification and Micro-Level Dynamics

Iacovone, Leonardo; Javorcik, Beata S. - 2012

Recent developments in trade theory, especially research on multi-product firms, have not been matched by similar progress on the empirical front. This paper aims to fill this gap by presenting a novel set of stylized facts on firm-product dynamics observed during an export boom. This exercise...

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Watching More Than the Discovery Channel : Export Cycles and Diversification in Development

Brenton, Paul; Newfarmer, Richard - 2012

This paper examines the export performance of 99 countries over 1995-2004 to understand the relative roles of export growth through "discovery" of new products and growth during post-discovery phases of the export product cycle -- acceleration and maturation -- in existing markets and expansion...

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Clothing and Export Diversification : Still a Route to Growth for Low-Income Countries?

Brenton, Paul; Hoppe, Mombert - 2012

Can the clothing sector be a driver of export diversification and growth for today's low-income countries as it was in the past for countries that have graduated into middle income? This paper assesses this issue taking into account key changes to the market for clothing: the emergence of India...

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