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Priority Roads: the Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads

Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019

Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …

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What to put on and what to keep off the Table? A Politician's Choice of which Issues to address

Sayag, Rei S.; Swank, Otto H. - 2012

At the start of their term, politicians often announce which issue they intend to address. To shed light on this agenda setting, we develop a model in which a politician has to decide whether or not to address a public issue. Addressing an issue means that the politician investigates the issue...

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Reputation Shocks and Strategic Responses in Electoral Campaigns

Poblete Cazenave, Rubén - 2021

Information affecting a candidate's reputation might have significant electoral consequences. Do candidates respond to the release of information? Using Brazilian elections and audits as an exogenous source of information, I show that both incumbent and challenger increase their campaign...

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What to Put on and What to Keep Off the Table? A Politician's Choice of Which Issues to Address

Sayag, Rei; Swank, Otto H. - 2012

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How does Market Access affect Smallholder Behavior? The Case of Tobacco Marketing in Malawi

Zant, Wouter - 2012

Transaction costs play a key role in the behaviour of smallholders in developing countries. We exploit the quasi experimental design of the introduction of an additional tobacco auction floor in Malawi in order to investigate the impact of a reduction in transaction costs and improved market...

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Is EU Support to Malawi Agriculture Effective?

Zant, Wouter - 2012

We measure the impact of the Farmers Income Diversification Program (FIDP), an EU funded program implemented in Malawi from late 2005 onwards, aiming at increasing agricultural productivity, diversification, value addition, commercialization and trade of subsistence farmers. The geographical...

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The Old-Age Security Motive for Fertility: Evidence from the Extension of Social Pensions in Namibia

Rossi, Pauline; Godard, Mathilde - 2019

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Do Organic Inputs in African Subsistence Agriculture Raise Productivity? Evidence from Plot Data of Malawi Household Surveys

Zant, Wouter - 2014

We exploit plot data from the agricultural module of the third Malawi Integrated Household Survey (IHS-3) to investigate how organic cultivation techniques contribute to productivity of non-subsidized local maize and what to expect from using organic inputs on a larger scale. We approximate...

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How does Market Access for Smallholders affect Export Supply? The Case of Tobacco Marketing in Malawi

Zant, Wouter - 2016

Transaction costs play a key role in the behaviour of smallholders in developing countries. We investigate smallholder tobacco cultivation in Malawi, Malawi’s major export crop, and exploit the introduction of an additional tobacco auction floor to measure the impact of a reduction in...

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The Political Economy of Bank- and Market Dominance

Perotti, Enrico; von Thadden, Ernst Ludwig - 2004

Legislation affects corporate governance and the return to human and financial capital. We allow the preference of a political majority to determine both the governance structure and the extent of labor rents. In a society where median voters have relatively more at stake in the form of human...

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