This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on public sector fiscal behaviour in Côte d’Ivoire. A special interest is the relationship between aid, debt servicing and debt, given that Côte d’Ivoire is a highly indebted country. The theoretical model employed differs from those of...

Economists typically evaluate policies based on how such policies affect individuals' utilities. We follow this approach by taking a welfarist view of the USA's espoused policy of promoting liberty in other parts of the world. However, we take a nuanced view by investigating the type of welfare...

This paper examines the FDI response to political shocks. We first investigate whether political or institutional quality is an important determinant of FDI inflows using a panel VAR model in a dataset of 146 countries over the period of 1989-2015. Then, we exploit the Arab Spring incidence to...

This paper investigates the relationship between the recent global financial crisis and child labour in Tanzania. Using the difference-in-difference methodological framework, we identify households' access to credit as a possible transmission channel of the financial crisis to child labour....

This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on public sector fiscal behaviour in Cocirc;te d`Ivoire. A special interest is the relationship between aid, debt servicing and debt, given that Cocirc;te d`Ivoire is a highly indebted country. The theoretical model employed differs from those of...

This paper examines the impact of trade openness on economic growth using a new measure of trade openness proposed by Squalli1 and Wilson (2011). In contrast to the vast majority of the existing literature, the new measure of trade openness accounts for not only the country trade share of its...