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Assessing Progress in Welfare Improvements in ZambiaPart of Book Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Role of Issue Linkage in Managing the MekongThe Mekong River is the major water source in Southeast Asia and shared by six countries. There is a rush to acquire sources of alternative energy and other benefits to meet the growing demand for water and energy, while China and Myanmar have...
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Multidimensional Poverty in NigeriaThis study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach developed by Arndt et al. (2012). It examines five dimensions of deprivation: education, water, sanitation, shelter, and energy-using...
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Multidimensional Welfare in Districts of ZambiaIn this paper we make welfare comparisons among districts of Zambia using multidimensional well-being indicators observed at the household level using the first order dominance approach developed by Arndt et al. in 2012. This approach allows welfare...
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Consumption Bundle Aggregation in Poverty MeasurementOfficial poverty figures in Uganda are flawed by the fact that the underlying poverty lines are based on a single national food basket that was constructed in the early 1990s. In this paper, we estimate a new set of poverty lines that accounts for...
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Multi-dimensional Poverty Analysis for TanzaniaAs in much of sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania has attained rapid economic growth accompanied by only marginal reductions in poverty. Is this mismatch between high economic growth and less significant poverty reduction due to how growth and poverty are...
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The International Debt ProblemThe aim of this paper is to raise a few open questions and to bring to light some mismatches between existing theories and the evidence. (1) It is shown that many standard international debt models unwittingly require some agents to behave...
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The Economics of Marriage in North AfricaMarriage is the single most important economic transaction and social transition in the lives of young people. Yet little is known about the economics of marriage in much of the developing world. This paper examines the economics of marriage in North...
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Debt Relief and Civil WarReducing or writing off the debts of the 41 heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs) can potentially reduce social conflict by releasing resources from debt-service to enable governments to make fiscal transfers that lower the grievances of rebels...
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Conflict in Africa: The Cost of Peaceful BehaviourWar provides economic opportunities, such as the capture of valuable natural resources, that are unavailable in peacetime. However, belligerents may prefer low‐intensity conflict to total war when the former has a greater pay‐off. This paper...
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Foreign Aid, Infrastructure Development and WelfarePart of Journal Special Issue Development Aid
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Do Non-Enforceable Contracts Matter?Part of Journal Special Issue Poverty, Development, and Behavioral Economics
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Transaction Cost Politics, Institutions for Commitment and Rent SeekingIn developing countries, particularly in those countries that have experienced declining growth rates, institutional failure (bad policies) is closely related to development failure and growth collapses. This paper addresses the issues of commitment...
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Wage Determination in Rural Labour MarketsThe nature of labour market in traditional rural societies has attracted a lot of attention in the recent years. One issue that has appeared particularly intriguing is the process of wage determination. After a good deal of theorising as well as...
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Collective Values, Behavioural Norms, and RulesPart of Book Perspectives on Growth and Poverty
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Network Externalities and Cooperative NetworksPart of Book Ownership and Governance of Enterprises
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Network Externalities and Cooperative NetworksPart of Book Ownership and Governance of Enterprises
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New Institutional Arrangements for Product Innovation in Silicon ValleyPart of Book Ownership and Governance of Enterprises
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Violence Against Civilians in Civil WarsPart of Journal Special Issue Civil War in Developing Countries
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Information, Incentives, and Option ValuePart of Journal Special Issue WIDER Symposium on Adaptive Efficiency and Evolving Diversity of Enterprise Ownership and Governance
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Conditionality and Endogenous Policy Formation in a Political SettingThe paper examines two issues associated with aid and fiscal policy. First, how best the conditionality behind foreign aid, sometimes non-economic, is complied with in a principal-agent framework. In a multiple task and multiple principal framework...
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Transnational Terrorism as a Spillover of Domestic Disputes in Other CountriesThis paper models transnational terrorism as a three-way strategic interaction involving a government that faces armed opposition at home, which may spill over in the form of acts of terrorism by the state’s opponents against the government’s...
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Conflict in AfricaWar provides economic opportunities, such as the capture of valuable natural resources, that are unavailable in peacetime. However, belligerents may prefer low-intensity conflict to total war when the former has a greater pay-off. The paper therefore...
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Warlord CompetitionWarlords compete for turf that provides them with rents and ‘taxable’ resources but they can also offer a semblance of security within their respective territories. This article first examines two economic models of warlord competition. Because such...
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Debt Relief and Civil WarOf the 41 HIPCs, 11 are classified by the IMF and World Bank as conflict-affected. Can debt relief reduce the level of violent conflict in these countries? By providing additional resources to finance broad-based public spending, debt relief could...
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An Endogenous Group Formation Theory of Co-operative NetworksThis paper develops a theory of endogenous league formation and considers its implications for policy in developing countries. We generalize from features of the two most prominent European co-op leagues, Mondragón and La Lega, to develop the first...
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Foreign Aid, Infrastructure Development, and WelfareThis paper examines the welfare implications of foreign aid within the framework of a two-period, two-country model of international trade. It is up to the donor country to decide what fraction of any given aid package is to be made available for the...
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Foreign Aid as PrizeWe develop a theoretical model of foreign aid to analyse a method of disbursement of aid which induces the recipient government to follow a more pro-poor policy than it otherwise would do. In our two-period model, aid is given in the second period...
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Intra-Household EfficiencyAn experimental design using treatments of a voluntary contribution mechanism is used to test household efficiency. Efficiency is decisively rejected in all treatments contrary to the assumption of most household models. Information on initial...
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