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The Out of Africa Hypothesis of Comparative Economic Development : Common Misconceptions

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2019

The importance of the prehistoric migration of anatomically modern humans from Africa for comparative economic …

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Urbanization and Economic Development: A Tale of Two Barriers

Bond, Eric; Riezman, Raymond G.; Wang, Ping - 2016

In this paper we determine the main driving forces underlying the structural transformation and urbanization process in rapidly industrializing countries. We use a dynamic, small open economy model with an abundant supply of surplus labor in rural areas, two types of traded goods manufactured in...

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Priority Roads : The Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads

Bonfatti, Roberto - 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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China and the World Bank : How Contrasting Development Approaches Affect the Stability of African States

Gehring, Kai; Kaplan, Lennart; Wong, Melvin H.L - 2019

analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in Africa. Aid by both the World Bank and China does not increase …

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China and the World Bank - How Contrasting Development Approaches Affect the Stability of African States

Gehring, Kai - 2019

analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in Africa. Aid by both the WB and China does not increase outright …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861418

An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Greenwood, Jeremy - 2018

Twelve percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom is used a third of the time. To analyze the Malawian epidemic, a choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed. In the developed framework, people select...

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Economic Analysis and Forecasting in the Global Economy and in Emerging and Developing Regions Including Africa: How Informative is the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)?

Garnitz, Johanna; Leibfritz, Willi - 2016

-to-date information about the cyclical stage of the global economy and of major emerging and developing regions including Africa …

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Factor substitution, income distribution, and growth in a generalized neoclassical model

Irmen, Andreas; Klump, Rainer - 2007

We analyze a generalized neoclassical growth model that combines a normalized CES production function and possible asymmetries of savings out of factor incomes. This generalized model helps to shed new light on a recent debate concerning the impact of factor substitution and income distribution...

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Population, pensions, and endogenous economic growth

Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas - 2008

We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...

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Cross-country income differences and technology diffusion in a competitive world

Irmen, Andreas - 2008

This paper develops a new open-economy endogenous growth model where technology diffusion allows for a stable and non-degenerate world income distribution. In accordance with the empirical literature, I find that country characteristics such as the social infrastructure, the degree of openness,...

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