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Drought and civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa

Couttenier, Mathieu; Soubeyran, Raphael - 2010

In this paper, we show that drought has a positive effect on the incidence of civil war over the 1945-2005 period in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use the Palmer Drought Severity Index which is a richer measurement of drought than the measures used in the literature (rainfall and temperature) as it...

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An anatomy of external shocks in the Andean region

Carrillo-Maldonado, Paul; Díaz Cassou, Javier - 2019

especially to global demand fluctuations associated with declines in commodity prices. However, despite the similarities that …

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Firms and economic performance : a view from trade

Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Gancia, Gino … - 2018 - This draft: November 2018

We use transaction-level US import data to compare firms from virtually all countries in the world competing in a single destination market. Guided by a simple theoretical framework, we decompose countries' market shares into the contribution of the number of firm-products, their average...

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Development diagnostics for the Southern cone

Borensztein, Eduardo; Miller, Sebastián; Sánchez, Gabriel - 2014

This is an update and revision of our 2009 study. Using a broad dataset and an original methodology, this paper reports composite development gaps across economic, social and institutional sectors. We define development gap as the distance between the observed and the expected development level...

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In search of larger per capita incomes : how to prioritize across productivity determinants?

Izquierdo, Alejandro; Llopis, Jimena; Muratori, Umberto; … - 2016

This study is a first contribution to prioritization across productivity determinant capabilities that attempts to obtain the equivalent of a "shadow price" for each of these capabilities by estimating their impact on the success a country may have in reaching higher income per capita groups....

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Energy-based economic development : mapping the developing country context

Carley, Sanya; Desai, Sameeksha; Bazilian, Morgan - 2012

Energy-based economic development (EBED) can provide economic, social and environmental benefits related to national economic development and sustainable growth activities. As both policy and research interests in responsible mechanisms for economic development grow, EBED benefits are becoming...

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An exploration of the link between development, economic growth, and natural risk

Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2013 - Revised version: April 7, 2013

This paper investigates the link between development, economic growth, and the economic losses from natural disasters in a normative analytical framework, with an illustration on hurricane flood risks in New Orleans. It concludes that, where capital accumulates through increased density of...

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Konjunkturanalyse for Bornholm, 1987-1996. Kapitel 2: priser og realindkomst

Lund, Lars - 1999

prices are constructed for housing expenditure and for services. Weights for these parts of household budgets and the … residual are found from panel surveys of household consumption. Relative prices of the consumption bundle for each year in the …, employees and workers are constructed. Combining data on incomes and on relative prices gives estimates of real incomes. The …

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Money as minimal complexity

Dubey, Pradeep; Sahi, Siddhartha; Shubik, Martin - 2015

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Value, price and exploitation : the logic of the transformation problem

Mohun, Simon; Veneziani, Roberto - 2017

This paper tries to clarify the logical structure of the relationship between labour values and prices from an …

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