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Boosting Manufacturing Firms' Exports? The role of trade facilitation in Africa

Hoekstra, Ruth - 2013

Facilitating trade is essential for Africa's economic development and further integration into the world economy, as business in Africa still suffers from behind-the-border barriers to trade. Using firm level data from the World Bank's Enterprise surveys covering more than 6,500 manufacturing...

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Do Large Employers Pay More in Developing Countries? The Case of Five African Countries

Strobl, Eric; Thornton, Robert - 2003

Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...

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Multiple Imputation von fehlenden Werten mit Daten über Unterernährung und Kindersterblichkeit

Gartner, Hermann; Scheid, Sandro - 2003

Kindersterblichkeit in Afrika und Südasien. In dem Makro-Datensatz, welcher 101 Entwicklungsländer umfasst, fällt etwa ein Drittel der 273 …

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The political economy of China's aid policy in Africa

Pehnelt, Gernot - 2007

In recent years, China has become a major power on the African continent, not only with respect to trade and investment, but also as a donor of development aid. Although there is no accurate measure of the exact size of China's aid program, since China rather underestimates the volume in...

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Corruption and innovation: a grease or sand relationship?

Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - 2008

This paper provides a firm-level empirical analysis on the ways in which corruption affects innovative activity. Particularly with respect to the African continent that is striving to reconcile with instability and poverty, this issue seems to be of utmost importance. Using a newly available...

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A human development index by income groups

Grimm, Michael; Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2006

One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that is does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. We suggest a relatively easy and intuitive approach which allows to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution....

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Mehr ist nicht genug: wirksame Entwicklungshilfe für Afrika?

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2005

Nationen fordern deshalb, die Entwicklungshilfe massiv aufzustocken, und der Afrika-Aktionsplan der G8 verspricht eine … Konzentration der Hilfe auf Afrika. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt sich zum einen die Frage, in welchem Maß die lokalen … ist die Versicherung der Geber zu hinterfragen, dass sich die Verteilung der Hilfe für Afrika an Effizienzkriterien …

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Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration out of Africa

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2001

Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending and receiving regions and demographic booms in the low-wage sending regions (directly augmenting the supply of potential movers as well as indirectly making already-measured...

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Evaluating Rural Electrification Projects - Methodological Approaches

Peters, Jörg - 2009

In recent years, the international community has expanded efforts in programme evaluation to improve the accountability of development projects. This paper presents approaches to implementing state-of-the-art evaluations in rural electrification projects, taking into account specific challenges...

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A convex hull approach to counterfactual analysis of trade openness and growth

Funke, Michael; Gronwald, Marc - 2009

In this paper, we apply a convex hull approach to counterfactual analysis of trade openness and growth. The experiments we choose evaluate the importance of trade openness for growth across African countries. Specifically, we ask the question what would happen if African countries were more...

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