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National cash transfer responses to Covid-19 : operational lessons learned for social protection system-strengthening and future shocks
Lowe, Christy; McCord, Anna; Beazley, Rodolfo - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013192788
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Togo - Coffee and Cocoa Liberalization
World Bank - 2012
The reform, a key component of a larger economic recovery and adjustment operation, and of the agricultural sector strategy, focused on the liberalization of coffee and cocoa prices, their primary marketing and export, all previously regulated by a marketing board. The main objectives of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554994
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Togo : Assessment Letter for the World Bank
International Monetary Fund - 2009
This note provides the IMF staff assessment of recent macroeconomic developments in Togo and progress under the Fund …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410080
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Integrated Climate Change and Air Pollution Mitigation Assessment for Togo
Malley, Christopher S.; Agbossou, Akpe; Fontodji, … - 2022
Highlights• Togo in west Africa experiences air pollution levels damaging to human health• Mitigation assessment … evaluates emission reductions from Togo’s climate plans• Ten priority mitigation measures could reduce Togo’s greenhouse gas … biomass cooking key to achieving Togo’s climate and clean air goals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014085044
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The Colonial and Geographic Origins of Comparative Development
Auer, Raphael - 2009
While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I develop an empirical strategy that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430076
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Did History Breed Inequality? Colonial Factor Endowments and Modern Income Distribution
Baker, Matthew J.; Brunnschweiler, Christa N.; Bulte, … - 2008
We explore the relation between historical population density in former colonies and modern income distribution. A theoretical model highlights the potentially opposing effects of native population density on incentives for colonists to conquer or settle in new territories. While an abundant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753150
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Geography, institutions, and the making of comparative development
Auer, Raphael A. - 2012
While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I re-examine the theories put forward by La...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283609
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Questioning ethnic fragmentation's exogeneity: Drivers of changing ethnic boundaries
Kolo, Philipp - 2011
Ethnic fragmentation is a variable increasingly used in the economic literature to explain differences in economic development level, growth or the incidence of conflicts. Nearly all articles have in common that they treat ethnic fragmentation as a static, exogenous fact. Only recently some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286648
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Corruption as a form of extreme individualism: An economic explanation based on geography and climate conditions
Arghyrou, Michael G. - 2010
We present a simple model explaining corruption on geography and climate conditions. We test the model's validity in a cross-section of 115 countries. Controlling for all other corruption's determinants we find evidence supporting the model's predictions. Corruption increases with temperature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288851
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Income, democracy, and critical junctures
Cervellati, Matteo; Jung, Florian; Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, … - 2012
Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008) document that the cross-country correlation between income per capita and democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on democracy might differ systematically across countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291403