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Nigeria's oil boom has not brought an end to perennial stagnation in the non-oil economy. Is this the unavoidable …
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participation by individuals in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria using primary (micro) data. While grievance appears to be …
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This paper investigates how the devolution of oil windfalls affects the likelihood of political violence. It shows that transferring large shares of oil wealth can prevent conflict, while transferring small shares can trigger it. Among the different transfer schemes, fiscal transfers (to...
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Ghana's economic growth picked up in the early 2000s and has been exceptionally strong over the past few years, with price booms of its main commodity exports, gold and cocoa, and the initiation of commercial oil production in 2011. This paper examines recent econometric evidence on Ghana's...
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Accurately measuring oil production in low-governance contexts is an important task. Many terrorist organizations and insurgencies -- including the Islamic State group, also known as ISIL/ISIS or Daesh -- tap oil as a revenue source. Understanding spatial and temporal variation in production in...
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model and panel data estimators, this paper provide answers using data from Ethiopia, Niger, Nigeria, Malawi, Tanzania, and …
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very poor. This paper presents evidence that a cash transfer project in rural Niger induced investments in assets and …
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widely used targeting methods. The experiment was embedded in the roll-out of a national cash transfer program in Niger …
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This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing … in Mali (by 2.4 percentage points) and Niger (2.5 percentage points). This is a result of primarily two factors: indirect … taxes (value-added taxes and import duties) and direct fiscal transfers. Although the richest people in Mali and Niger pay …
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reduction. In Niger, as in many other African countries, productivity is even lower among female peasants. To build policy … aggregate and detailed levels to identify the factors that explain the productivity gap. The analysis finds that in Niger on … gap tends to be widest among Niger'smost productive farmers. The primary factors that contribute to the gender …
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