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Misallocation, Property Rights, and Access to Finance: Evidence from Within and Across Africa
Misallocation Firms Investor Rights Financing Obstacles MPK
2015/9/21
We study capital misallocation within and across 10 African countries using the World Bank
Enterprise Surveys. First, we compare the extent of misallocation among rms within countries. We document h...
AIDS, \Reversal" of the Demographic Transition and Economic Development: Evidence from Africa
HIV/AIDS Fertility Growth
2015/9/21
Between estimates that exploit cross-sectional variation suggest a
positive signi cant e ect of HIV/AIDS on fertility, whereas within estimates that are
identi ed of o time-series variation show bo...
Assessing the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals in Southern Africa
Millennium Development Goals Southern Africa
2015/7/28
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were put forward in early 2000 and the targets are to be reached in 2015. They are an inclusive set of well- defined goals that primarily seek to put developmen...
National Institutions and Subnational Development in Africa
Ethnicity Characteristics Development Economics Local Range Government and Politics Africa
2015/5/13
We investigate the role of national institutions on subnational African development in a novel framework that accounts both for local geography and cultural-genetic traits. We exploit the fact that th...
The Competitive Advantage of South Africa
Competitive Advantage Microeconomics South Africa
2015/5/8
Competitiveness presentation delivered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Competitiveness presentation delivered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa
Ethnicity Characteristics Development Economics Geography Government and Politics Africa
2015/4/24
We investigate jointly the importance of contemporary country-level institutional structures and local ethnic-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. ...
The fertility transition in South Africa: A retrospective panel data analysis
South Africa fertility education marriage social norms
2014/12/26
Since 1960 South Africa has seen a steep fall in fertility levels and currently the total fertility rate is the lowest on the African continent. Given the high prevailing levels of fertility in Africa...
Promoting Industrial Development in Africa: Serendipity or Good Policy?
Promoting Industrial Development Africa Serendipity Good Policy
2014/12/26
Following the success of East Asian countries with export-led industrialization strategy, many African countries have made concerted efforts to spur industrial development through structural and insti...
Earnings Inequality and the Intersectionality of Gender and Ethnicity In Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Tanzanian Manufacturing
Gender Ethnicity Intersectionality Wage inequality Tanzania
2014/12/26
This paper explores the effect of gender and ethnic intersectionality on earnings and returns to schooling in the Tanzanian manufacturing sector. We estimate quantile earnings functions with data from...
Africa Diaspora Linkage With The Motherland - Focus on AFEA and AfDB
African Diaspora Linkage Motherlan Focus on AREA AfDB
2014/12/26
Permit me first to bring you felicitations from theAfrican Development Bank, particularly from our Chief Economist & Vice President, Prof. Mthuli Ncube, who I am representing.
Spoiling the Peace? Peace Process Exclusivity and Political Violence in North-Central Africa
Spoiling the Peace Peace Process Exclusivity
2015/6/5
Why are some peace processes accompanied by bloody political violence
while others are not? Recent scholarship suggests that when factions fear that
they will not benefit or will be excluded f...
A frican economies export primary commodities, and most export little else. Policymakers as well as economists and historians of African economic development have seen these exports as both a hope and...
Health and Wealth among the Poor: India and South Africa Compared
Health Wealth the Poor India South Africa Compared
2014/3/14
Health and wealth are the two most important components of well-being. Rankings of wellbeing based on income will differ from more comprehensive rankings, depending on the way that income and health a...
Reinventing the Wheel: The Economic Benefits of Wheeled Transportation in Early British Colonial West Africa
Reinventing the Wheel Economic Benefits Wheeled Transportation Early British Colonial West Africa
2013/11/27
One of the great puzzles of Sub-Saharan African economic history is that wheeled transportation was barely used prior to the colonial period. Instead, head porterage was the main method of transportat...