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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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New Markets for Local Experts in Africa?

Kohnert, Dirk - In: More Responsibilities to South Consultants in …, (pp. 63-74). 1995

In the past decades the involvement of local experts in the planning and evaluation of development programs has steadily increased. Ownership of development planning is propagated as major aim of bilateral and international development co-operation. Yet, the quality and performance of many local...

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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...

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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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Inter-ethnic redistribution and human investments

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2009

of less prosperous ethnic minorities raises fertility among the unskilled minority recipients, lowers fertility among the …

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Aid, debt relief and new sources of finance for meeting the millennium development goals

Addison, Tony; Mavrotas, George; McGillivray, Mark - 2005

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have lofty expectations regarding the impact of official development aid. Are these expectations valid? This paper surveys the literature on aid and growth. It finds that practically all aid studies since the late 1990s conclude that aid increases economic...

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Donor’s double talk undermines African agency: Comparative study of civic agency in Burkina Faso and Togo

Kohnert, Dirk - 2015

Zusammenfassung: Trotz einer lang andauernden Kontroverse über den Nutzen von Entwicklungshilfe im Allgemeinen und den … Revolutionen‘ in Burkina Faso und Togo – Beide seit Jahrzehnten am Tropf der Entwicklungshilfe hängend – dienen als Beleg für diese … versteckten negativen Auswirkungen von Entwicklungshilfe auf pro-aktive demokratische Aktionen an der Basis. Daher ist es …

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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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Foreign aid, fertility and populations growth: Evidence from Africa

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2009

considers population growth rate and a directly related to fertility demographic indicator - total fertility rate. Using a panel … fertility. These findings suggest that the appreciation of the demographic effect of foreign aid can have important implications …

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