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Conflict and the composition of economic activity in Afghanistan
Galdo, Virgilio; López Acevedo, Gladys; Rama, Martín - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-23
Despite informality being the norm in conflict-affected countries, most estimates of the impact of conflict on economic … activity rely on formal sector data. Using high-frequency data from Afghanistan, this paper assesses how surges in conflict … and the period of reference is 2012-2016. The results show that an increase in conflict-related casualties has a strong …
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A replication of "The long-run impact of foreign aid in 36 African countries: insights from multivariate time series analysis" (Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014)
Roger, Lionel - 2019
Macroeconomic data have been shown to vary substantially between sources, especially so for low-income countries. While the impact of data revisions on inference is well documented for cross-country studies, there is no systematic analysis of the robustness of results obtained from time series...
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Comparative Advantage Following (CAF) development strategy, Aid for Trade flows and structural change in production
Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 9 (2020) 1, pp. 1-29
This article investigates empirically the interaction between countries' Comparative Advantage Following (CAF) development strategy and Aid for Trade (AfT ) interventions in influencing the extent of structural change in production. Based on the Generalized Methods of Moments and an unbalanced...
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Taxation, foreign aid and political governance in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: European journal of comparative economics 18 (2021) 2, pp. 217-249
This study examines the hypothesis that foreign aid dilutes the positive role of taxation on political governance. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalised Method of Moments and 53 African countries for the period 1996-2010. For more policy options, the dataset is disaggregated into...
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Conflicts with momentum
Boudreau, James W.; Mathews, Timothy; Sanders, shane; … - In: Games 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-12
advantage in the final stage. We examine such momentum in conflict scenarios and investigate how valuable it must be to avoid a …, rent dissipation in the two-stage conflict is equal across party whether or not an individual obtains first-stage momentum … as useful conflict benchmarks, they dissipate additional expected contest rents. This additional rent-dissipative toll …
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Does aid induce brain drain? : a panel data analysis
Ontiveros, Darwin Ugarte; Veradi, Vincenzo - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-19
Recent evidence suggests that aid induces migration. This result is nevertheless not very informative from a policy perspective since what counts in terms of welfare consequences is the composition of migration. In this paper we focus on education and study which of skilled or unskilled...
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International positive production externalities under a transfer payment scheme : the case for cooperation
Savvidis, Charalampos - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 61 (2011) 1/2, pp. 80-117
In the present work we try to find out whether the existence of positive international externalities generates an incentive for cooperation between governments and if the adoption of a transfer payments scheme moderates that intensive. We adopt a simple economic model incorporating the...
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What happens when women deal with foreign aid : the case of Sub-Saharan countries
Chiariello, Valentina - In: PSL quarterly review 75 (2022) 300, pp. 25-46
This paper seeks to evaluate whether there is any impact on aid effectiveness when there is a different gender composition of parliaments in recipient countries. The sample observed refers to 40 Sub-Saharan African countries over the period 2007-2019. The findings gained demonstrate that a...
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Foreign aid, fiscal optimality and economic growth in Nigeria
Saibu, Olufemi Muibi; Obioesio, Felix - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 67 (2017) 4, pp. 85-99
The main thrust of this study has been to provide empirical illuminations to the debate on the effectiveness of foreign aid in driving sustainable growth and development. Using an extended Barro style model of aid-augmented government expenditure and economic growth, an analytical model is...
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Foreign aid, poverty and economic growth in developing countries : a dynamic panel data causality analysis
Mahembe, Edmore; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: Cogent economics & finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-17
This article examines the causal relationship between foreign aid, poverty, and economic growth in 82 developing countries for the period 1981–2013. Taking advantage of the recently developed dynamic panel data estimation techniques, the paper tests for both panel unit roots and cointegration...
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