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The out of Africa hypothesis of comparative economic development : common misconceptions

Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 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 W.; Riezman, Raymond Glenn; Wang, Ping - 2016

n 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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Is hard Brexit detrimental to EU integration? : theory and evidence

Mikolajun, Irena; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2018

In the struggle between the forces of free trade and the restrictive influence of insularism the latter recently seems to have the upper hand. This is illustrated by the referendum of June 23, 2016 where the United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the Europea+n Union (EU). In this paper we evaluate...

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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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Economic geography and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bosker, Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - 2008

The physical or absolute geography of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is often blamed for its poor economic performance. A … future economic development. -- Sub Saharan Africa ; economic development …

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Economics of greenfield urban planning

Henderson, J. Vernon; Libano-Monteiro, Francisco; … - 2025

Urban planning has shaped cities for millennia, demarcating property rights and mitigating coordination failures, but its rigidities often conflict with market-driven development, which reflects preferences. Although planning is widespread in high-income countries, rapidly growing cities in the...

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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads

Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 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 Heen Lung - 2019

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

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Economic globalisation and Africa's quest for greener and more inclusive growth : the missing link

Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Freytag, Andreas; Asongu, Simplice - 2023

inclusive green growth (IGG) relationship in Africa. Based on macro data for 22 African countries and the Driscoll …-Kraay standard errors with fixed effects instrumental variable regression, the following findings are established. First, Africa … threshold analysis suggests that by improving Africa's mostly unfree economic architecture to 60% (moderately free) or 80% (free …

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The role of the state in economic development

Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2004

This paper discusses the recent literature on the role of the state in economic development. It concludes that government incentives to enact sound policies are key to economic success. It also discusses the evidence on what happens after episodes of economic and political liberalizations,...

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