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The impact of foreign aid on economic growth in ECOWAS countries: A simultaneous-equation model

Adamu, Patricia A. - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of foreign aid on economic growth in member countries of the Economic Community of West African States using panel data for 1990-2009 and a three equation simultaneous-equations model. The effect of foreign aid on economic growth among these ECOWAS countries...

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The global partnership for sustainable development

Huang, Yongfu; Quibria, M. G. - 2013

This paper examines whether foreign aid, together with other economic, social and environmental factors, contributes to sustainable development. It starts with a theoretical model where sustainable development is modelled as a different kind of growth that protects the environment. Using factor...

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Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict?

Easterly, William - 2000

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The seasonality of conflict

Guardado, Jenny; Pennings, Steven - 2020

This paper investigates whether poor employment prospects of potential insurgents help to fuel conflict. The paper … benefits are unobserved. In contrast, many other shocks in the conflict literature are persistent and unanticipated, thus also … estimates of the effect of harvest shocks on conflict intensity in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan using subnational variation …

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Conflict and cooperation in managing international water resources

Barrett, Scott - 1994

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Does HIV/AIDS matter for economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa?

Mveyange, Anthony; Skovsgaard, Christian; Lesner, Tine - 2015

Estimating the impact of HIV/AIDS epidemic on economic growth is challenging because of endogeneity concerns. In this paper, we use novel data on male circumcision and distance from the first HIV outbreak as instrumental variables for the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 241 regions across 25 countries in...

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Agricultural commodity price shocks and their effect on growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Addison, Tony; Ghoshray, Atanu - 2013

Commodity price shocks are an important type of external shock and are often cited as a problem for economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper quantifies the impact of agricultural commodity price shocks using a near vector autoregressive model. The novel aspect of this model is that we...

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Tax structures and economic growth: New evidence from the Government Revenue Dataset

McNabb, Kyle - 2016

Recent work on the relationship between tax structure and economic growth has offered little reliable evidence for developing countries. Yet it is in such countries where the greatest changes in tax structure not only have been seen over the past 30 years but will likely continue to be seen in...

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An empirical analysis of state fragility and growth: The impact of state ineffectiveness and political violence

Ferreira, Ines A. - 2018

The role of the state in promoting development is well established in the institutional economics literature. Yet, in recent decades the attention has been turned to the opposite side of the spectrum. Facing high levels of poverty and showing a slower progress in achieving development outcomes,...

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Structural transformation and sources of growth in Turkey

Kaya, Ahmet Ihsan; Çiçekçi, Cumhur - 2023

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the supply and demand side of structural transformation in Turkey. Using the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database, we find that labour productivity improvements explain more than half of economic growth in the period 1980-2021. This is...

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