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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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Fifty Years of Regional Inequality in ChinaPart of Book Spatial Disparities in Human Development
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The effects of taxation on income inequality in sub-Saharan AfricaARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | This study investigates the effects of taxation on income inequality in an unbalanced panel of 45 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1980–2018. We use two-stage least squares and the instrumental variables...
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Rethinking African debt and exploitation of natural resourcesIn Africa, there is a distressing correlation between debt and the need to export raw materials. A new paradigm is needed in which African countries...
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Macro-financial implications of public debt in South AfricaThis paper examines the role of financial frictions in the public debt–growth nexus, documenting that a public debt shock has different macro-financial implications dependent on the state of financial markets in South Africa. A non-linear vector...
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The effects of taxation on income inequality in sub-Saharan AfricaThis paper investigates the effects of taxation on income inequality in an unbalanced panel of 45 countries in sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1980–2018. We use instrumental-variable two-stage least squares and instrumental-variable quantile...
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The evolution of vulnerable employment in Egypt, Jordan, and TunisiaPart of Book The Job Ladder
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Determinants of gender gaps in youth employment in urban MozambiqueIn this study, we explore the correlates of the employment gender gap among urban youth in Mozambique. Young people are confronted with simultaneous decisions about education, work and family life influenced by social norms around gender roles. Using...
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Migration out of povertyInternal migration plays an important role in the economic development of individuals, their families, and their country. This study describes Mozambique’s most common migration patterns from 1992 until 2017 using data from three population censuses...
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Unravelling Africa’s raw material footprints and their driversThis paper applies an environmentally extended input–output analysis, leveraging the Eora database, to estimate the global raw material footprints of 51 African nations from 1995 to 2015. It employs least absolute shrinkage and selection operator and...
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Explaining the Poverty Difference between Inland and Coastal ChinaThis paper proposes a decomposition framework for quantifying contributions of the determinants of poverty to spatial differences or temporal changes in poverty. This framework is then applied to address the issue why poverty incidence is higher in...
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Gender differences in formal wage employment in urban TanzaniaThis paper uses the latest Tanzania labour force survey—the Integrated Labour Force Survey—and a censored bivariate probit model to analyse gender differences in labour force participation and gender bias in formal wage employment in urban Tanzania...
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Digital technology and productivity of informal enterprisesThe lingering policy dilemma facing many governments in sub-Saharan Africa in recent years is what can be done in the short to medium term to boost the output and incomes of individuals and enterprises in the informal sector, given the size and...
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Regional Income Inequality in Rural China, 1985-2002This paper depicts the trend of regional inequality in rural China for the period 1985-2002. The total inequality is decomposed into the so-called within- and between-components when China is divided into three regional belts (east, central and west)...
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Informal–formal workers' transition in NigeriaThis study evaluates the effects of the informal sector on Nigerian workers’ livelihoods and analyses workers’ transitions within the informal sector and between informal and formal employment. A binary logit model is applied to General Household...
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Vulnerable employment of Egyptian, Jordanian, and Tunisian youthYouths in the Middle East and North Africa face the highest unemployment rates in the world. Those who are employed are pushed to accept informal sector jobs that are insecure, unsafe, and lack non-wage benefits. Precarious employment is pervasive...
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Do bigger health budgets cushion pandemics?How has government healthcare spending prepared countries for tackling the COVID-19 pandemic? Arguably, spending is the primary policy tool of governments in providing effective health. We argue that the effectiveness of spending in reducing COVID...
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