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On Gender and Spatial Gaps in Africa’s Informal Sector : Evidence from Urban Ghana

Avenyo, Elvis; Francois, John Nana; P. Zinyemba, Tatenda - 2023

We employ unique survey data collected in 2016 in two urban areas in Ghana – Accra and Tema – to examine gender and spatial gaps in sales and innovation. Multivariate decomposition analyses of the data uncover the following results: First, there is an unexplained spatial gap in sales between...

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Eat widely, vote wisely : lessons from a campaign against vote buying in Uganda

Blattman, Christopher; Larreguy, Horacio; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2024

We study a large-scale intervention designed by civil society organizations to reduce vote buying in Uganda’s 2016 elections. We study this intervention in light of a model where incumbents benefit from a first-mover and valence advantage, vote buying and campaigning are complementary, and...

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Trade Imbalances and the Political Economy of a Transitional Fund in the EAC

Shams, Rasul - 2003

The EAC is on the verge of establishing a customs union. But this is accompanied by fears that the Customs Union would lead to trade imbalances among the Partner States, which would create serious problems for the proper functioning of the Customs Union itself. To mitigate these problems the...

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Trade Imbalances and the Political Economy of a Transitional Fund in the EAC

Shams, Rasul - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003

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Eat Widely, Vote Wisely: Lessons from a Campaign against Vote Buying in Uganda

Blattman, Christopher; Larreguy, Horacio; Marx, Benjamin; … - 2024

We study a large-scale intervention designed by civil society organizations to reduce vote buying in Uganda's 2016 elections. We study this intervention in light of a model where incumbents benefit from a first-mover and valence advantage, vote buying and campaigning are complementary, and voter...

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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 …

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