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Impact of grain trade policies on prices and welfare : evidence from Malawi
Fuje, Habtamu; Pullabhotla, Hemant - 2020
harvests and seasonality - two critical dimensions of smallholder agriculture in Africa - mediate the effects of export bans on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390459
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What Drives Local Food Prices? Evidence from the Tanzanian Maize Market
Baffes, John - 2015
This study quantifies the relationship between Tanzanian and external maize markets while also accounting for domestic influences. It concludes that external influences on domestic prices originate from regional, rather than global, markets. It also shows that, compared to external factors,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246005
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Lifting Economic Sanctions on Iran : Global Effects and Strategic Responses
Ianchovichina, Elena - 2016
This paper uses a global general equilibrium simulation model to quantify the effects of lifting economic sanctions on Iran with and without strategic responses. Iran benefits the most, with average per capita welfare gains ranging from close to 3 percent, in the case when Iran's crude oil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246487
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Sources of manufacturing productivity growth in Africa
Jones, Patricia; Lartey, Emmanuel; Mengistae, Taye; … - 2019
This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Cote D'Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in comparison with the case of Bangladesh. Based on the analysis of establishment census data since the mid-1990s, it finds that reallocation of market share between firms...
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Manufacturing in structural change in Africa
Nguimkeu, Pierre; Zeufack, Albert G. - 2019
This paper investigates the scale, causes, and timing of significant episodes of industrialization and … deindustrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Recent studies have argued that the turning point of manufacturing output and employment shares … heterogeneity across Sub-Saharan Africa subregions, with the Southern region being the only subregion to have witnessed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114107
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The Political Economy of Bank Lending : Evidence from an Emerging Market
Agarwal, Sumit - 2016
This study investigates the existence of political rents in bank lending, using a comprehensive loan-level data set of the universe of commercial loans in Mexico from 2003 to 2012. Identification relies on changes in the state of origin of a senate committee chairman as a source of exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246399
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Explaining Agricultural Distortion Patterns : The Roles of Ideology, Inequality, Lobbying and Public Finance
Dutt, Pushan - 2009
. Some aspects of protection also seem to be consistent with predictions of a lobbying model in that agricultural protection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246937
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Special Interests versus the Public Interest in Policy Determination
Rausser, Gordon C. - 2009
This paper focuses on recent theoretical developments in political economy and what role they might play in explaining and reforming individual country and global distortions in food and agricultural markets. Four groups of forces are isolated: political governance structures emphasizing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246943
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Elite capture of foreign aid : evidence from offshore bank accounts
Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Johannesen, Niels; Rijkers, Bob - 2020
Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-dependent countries coincide with sharp increases in bank deposits in offshore financial centers known for bank secrecy and private wealth management, but not in other financial centers. The estimates are...
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Co-location, socioeconomic status and perceptions of environmental change in the Indian sundarbans
Dasgupta, Susmita; Guha, Bansari; Wheeler, David - 2019
Research on the determinants of collective action in the commons generally focuses on interest-group heterogeneity, implicitly assuming that groups perceive the same problems but have different priorities. This paper changes the focus to the role played by perceptions themselves. Within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058969