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The impact of democracy on economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa, 1982 - 2012
Masaki, Takaaki; Van de Walle, Nicolas - 2014
Does democracy promote economic growth? There is still an ongoing debate over the economic implications of democracy, and this question has gained critical importance particularly in the African context, where a wave of democratization in the early 1990s coincided with the start of a new era of...
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Assessing the inclusiveness of growth in Africa : evidence from Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania
Vivien Houngbonon, Georges; Bauer, Arthur; N'Diaye, … - 2014
In this study, we assess the inclusiveness of growth by tracking the yearly percentage change in the household consumption of individuals over different growth spells in Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania. With cross-sectional data, we track the consumption of groups of individuals that share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410852
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Historical origins of persistent inequality in Nigeria
Archibong, Belinda - 2016
Horizontal inequality by ethnic group has remained remarkably persistent for wealth, education, and access to certain services in Nigeria. While significant gains in the reduction of inequality and improvement in access have been made for more locally administered services, outcomes are stickier...
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How does joint evolution of social trust and land administration shape economic outcomes? : evidence from Viet Nam
Dang Duc Anh; Kim Khoi Dang; Thi Lan Vu - 2018
This paper examines how the interaction of social trust and institutions, such as land administration, affects … mitigated in communes with higher level of trust. These results support the view that trust complements formal institutions. …
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Trust a few: natural disasters and the formation of trust in Africa
Mackay, Robert; Mavisakalyan, Astghik; Tarverdi, Yashar - 2023
-term attitudes and behaviours essential to functioning in a society, such as trust. In this paper we ask how exposure to natural … disasters within the impressionable years may affect the formation of trust by matching data from over 1,000 disaster … impressionable years, we show that disaster exposure has a negative and significant association with generalized trust. Additionally …
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The corruption-growth relationship : do political institutions matter?
Saha, Shrabani; Sen, Kunal - 2019
Corruption is widely believed to negatively affect economic growth. However, many East and Southeast Asia countries either achieved or currently are achieving impressively rapid economic growth despite widespread corruption - the 'East Asian Paradox'. Is this negative relationship equally likely...
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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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The economic context of realizing socioeconomic rights in South Africa
Burger, Philippe - 2023
The South African constitution is considered progressive and transformative in intention due to its inclusion of socioeconomic rights, such as the right to education, land, food, and healthcare. However, some of these rights are qualified by the availability of resources to the state, which...
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Does lack of innovation and absorptive capacity retard economic growth in Africa?
Onyeiwu, Steve - 2011
This paper reviews the innovative capabilities and absorptive capacities of African countries, and investigates whether they have played significant roles in the region's slow and episodic economic growth. Results from cross-country regressions covering 31 Sub-Saharan African countries suggest...
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Terms of trade and growth of resource economies : a tale of two countries
Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - 2011
The current paper demonstrates a dichotomy of the growth response to changes in the barter terms of trade, employing as case studies the two African countries, Botswana and Nigeria.Using distributed-lag analysis, the paper finds that the effect of terms of trade on output is positive and...
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