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China's Impact on Africa - the Role of Trade, FDI and Aid
Busse, Matthias; Erdogan, Ceren; Mühlen, Henning - 2014
We investigate the impact of Chinese activities in sub-Saharan African countries with respect to the growth performance of economies in that region. Using a Solow-type growth model and panel data for the period 1991 to 2011, we find that African economies that export natural resources have...
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Agricultural imports, agriculture productivity and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Mwangi, Esther N.; Chen, Fuzhong; Njoroge, Daniel M. - In: Journal of African Trade 7 (2020) 1/2, pp. 15-28
This study investigates the causal links among agricultural imports, agriculture productivity, and economic growth in 40 sub-Saharan African countries over the period 1990-2015. Granger causality tests are applied to infer direction of causality, and the generalized two-stage least squares...
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Ireland – politics, institutions and post-war economic growth
Barry, Frank - In: CESifo Forum 09 (2008) 1, pp. 23-34
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Institutions and Economic Performance - Getting Institutions Right
Rodrik, Dani - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 2, pp. 10-15
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Institutions and Economic Performance - Fast-moving and Slow-moving Institutions
Roland, Gérard - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 2, pp. 16-21
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Export diversification effects of aid for trade in sub-Saharan Africa
Masunda, Stein - In: Journal of African Trade 7 (2020) 1/2, pp. 29-36
This paper uses panel data of 42 sub-Saharan Africa countries from 2005 to 2015 to examine the effect of aid for trade (AfT) on export diversification. The average Hirschman-Herfindahl index measure of 0.77 indicates that the export basket of sub-Saharan African countries is very narrow. This is...
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Development assistance and development finance: Evidence and global policy agendas
Addison, Tony; Mavrotas, George; McGillivray, Mark - 2005
Understanding the development effects of official aid is crucial to building a better bridge between research and policy. This paper reviews the current evidence regarding the impact of aid on growth and poverty reduction, and develops a new narrative. In the light of this narrative, the paper...
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Aid and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Accounting for transmission mechanisms
Gomanee, Karuna; Girma, Sourafel; Morrissey, Oliver - 2005
This paper is a contribution to the literature on aid and growth. Despite an extensive empirical literature in this area, existing studies have not addressed directly the mechanisms via which aid should affect growth. We identify investment as the most significant transmission mechanism, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284876
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Cursing the blessings? Natural resource abundance, institutions, and economic growth
Brunnschweiler, Christa N. - 2006
Since Sachs and Warner's (1995a) contribution, there has been a lively debate on the so-called natural resource curse. This paper re-examines the effects of natural resource abundance on economic growth using new measures of resource endowment and considering the role of institutional quality....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753116
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Risk sharing, finance and institutions in international portfolios
Fratzscher, Marcel; Imbs, Jean - 2007
We show that international consumption risk sharing is significantly improved by capital flows, especially portfolio … investment. Concomitantly, we show that poor institutions hamper risk sharing, but to an extent that decreases with openness. In … particular, risk sharing is prevalent even among economies with poor institutions, provided they are open to international …
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