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Diversity debit vs. diversity dividend: Challenging the conventional wisdomIt is widely accepted in recent work in economics and political science that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on the provision of public goods...
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Ethnic Heterogeneity and Public Goods Provision in ZambiaThe hypothesis that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on public goods provision is widely accepted. Notably, most work on this issue fails to distinguish adequately between national versus subnational governance. We find that subnational...
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Supply-Side Constraints, Capital Goods Imports, and the Quality of Sub-Saharan African Countries’ ExportsIn the last decade, a large portion of capital goods imports of Sub-Saharan African countries is telecommunications equipment, and China is now the main source of equipment for 30 Sub-Saharan African countries. A connection between specific types of...
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Fast-Food Consumption and Child Body Mass Index in ChinaThe rapid economic growth experienced within the past two decades in China highly correlates with childhood overweightness. The epidemic has become an issue of grave concern. A principal factor considered to be responsible for the epidemic in the...
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Income generation and malaria in UgandaSeveral large-scale efforts have been made to combat malaria in the last decade under the Millennium Development Goals, and while these have led to a...
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Evaluating multiple spatial dimensions of economic growth in Brazil using spatial panel data modelsThe goal of this paper is to evaluate the results of regional economic growth model estimations at multiple spatial scales using spatial panel data models. The spatial scales examined are minimum comparable areas, microregions, mesoregions and states...
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On the Impact of Foreign Aid in Education on GrowthPart of Journal Special Issue Foreign Aid Heterogeneity
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Fifty Years of Regional Inequality in ChinaPart of Journal Special Issue Spatial Inequality and Development in Asia
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The Pattern and Valuation Effects of Corporate DiversificationWe document that firms in eight East Asian countries and Japan diversify into more segments and engage into more related businesses―as measured by the degree of vertical relatedness and complementarity―than firms in the USA. Using data for the 1990-6...
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High-Growth Entrepreneurial Firms in AfricaThis paper studies the growth performance of a large set of entrepreneurial firms in ten manufacturing sectors of eleven Sub-Saharan African countries. The focus of the paper is on identifying those entrepreneurs’ attributes and firm characteristics...
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Commercialization in agriculture in rural Vietnam, 2006-14The vast majority of households in rural Vietnam undertake agricultural activities and for many this is their main livelihood. Moreover, this agriculture has become increasingly commercialized over time. This paper uses the five wave VARHS balanced...
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Income and malariaWe exploit a spatial discontinuity in the coverage of an agricultural extension program in Uganda to causally identify its effects on malaria. We find that eligibility for the program reduced the incidence of malaria by 8.8 percentage points, with...
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Terms of Trade Shocks and the Current Account in Small Island StatesPart of Journal Special Issue Fragility and Development in Small Island Developing States
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Remittances and Financial Inclusion in DevelopmentPart of Book Development Finance in the Global Economy
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Regional Income Inequality in Rural China 1985-2002Part of Book Understanding Inequality and Poverty in China
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