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How can foreign aid to agriculture support economic growth in Africa? This paper constructs a geographically …
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In this paper, Arbache, Go, and Page examine the recent acceleration of growth in Africa. Unlike the past, the …
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Recorded remittances to Africa have grown dramatically over the past decade. Yet data limitations still mean relatively …
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remittances on income, poverty, inequality, and human capital (or, in general,welfare) as well as difficulties confronting … remittances implies a need to carefully spell out the rationale for interventions. It also notices the lack of good migration data …
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Workers' remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries. However, little is still known … about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances … are robust to the use of different instruments that attempt to correct for the potential endogeneity of remittances …
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Using firm-level data on manufacturing sectors in Africa, this paper addresses how domestic supply constraints and … firm-level export intensity. Some qualitative differences exist between Africa's regional exports and exports to the global …, implying the relevance of addressing behind-the-border constraints in fostering regional integration in Africa. Customs …
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countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, and derives a formal specification of investment functions in the primary, industry, and …
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Suppose that all people in the world are allocated only two characteristics: country where they live and social class within that country. Assume further that there is no migration. We show that 90 percent of variability in people's global income position (percentile in world income...
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This paper presents evidence suggesting that the relationship between income and economic structure is shifting over time, with countries across the income distribution uniformly increasing the share of labor in service sectors and an increasingly less stark relationship between manufacturing...
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This paper uses a set of national household surveys to study the regional Sub-Saharan Africa distribution of … among persons in Africa into context with the disparities that exist within and between African countries. Regional …
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