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Does information break the political resource curse? : experimental evidence from Mozambique
Armand, Alex; Coutts, Alexander; Vicente, Pedro C.; … - 2019
The political resource curse is the idea that natural resources can lead to the deterioration of public policies through corruption and rent-seeking by those closest to political power. One prominent consequence is the emergence of conflict. This paper takes this theory to the data for the case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958005
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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966676
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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960429
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Did Africa's first choices matter? : growth legacies of leaders at independence
Jørgensen, Christina Mangaard; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2015
We explore the potential effects of the first leaders of Sub-Saharan Africa. We first outline a set of theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346680
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Southeast Asia in the New Global Economy : Emerging Challenges from Africa and Latin America
Cammack, Paul - 2014
(Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) and the World Bank in particular to celebrate dynamic growth in Asia, Africa … ‘South-South' growth. In this context, the paper offers a stylized comparison of Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067322
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The macroeconomic impact of recent political conflicts in Africa : generalized synthetic counterfactual evidence
Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2021
This paper measures the macroeconomic impact of recent political crisis, protest and uprisings in Africa with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650707
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Political Distortions, State Capture, and Economic Development in Africa
Canen, Nathan; Wantchekon, Leonard - 2022
This article studies the role of political distortions in driving economic growth and development in Africa. We first … connections in firm outcomes; it provides a framework that unifies results in Africa and elsewhere, and leaves a wide scope for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013307457
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Vote-Buying and Growth
Gersbach, Hans; Mühe, Felix - 2008
Vote-buying is widely used by parties in developing countries to influence the outcome of elections. We examine the impact of vote-buying on growth. We consider a model with a poverty trap where redistribution can promote growth. We show that vote-buying contributes to the persistence of poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753158
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Vote-buying and growth
Gersbach, Hans; Mühe, Felix - 2008
Vote-buying is widely used by parties in developing countries to influence the outcome of elections. We examine the impact of vote-buying on growth. We consider a model with a poverty trap where redistribution can promote growth. We show that vote-buying contributes to the persistence of poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003762209
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Economic growth in the Potterian economy
Snir, Avichai; Levy, Daniel C. - 2010
We study the economic structure of the life of Harry Potter and his co-actors as an economic model that governs the social organization of their economic activities. Our goal is to study and understand the internal consistency of the Potterian economic model and explore the relationships between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434312