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The effect of China’s One Child Policy on sex selection, family size, and the school enrolment of daughtersI first document that the introduction of the One Child Policy dramatically increased sex selection in certain regions, and that the Chinese government responded to this by allowing parents who had a daughter as their first child to try for a second ...
Development Education Family planningLecture
Public Economics Winter School 2017The University of Pretoria will hold from 3-7 July 2017 the second Winter School – one of the key events in the public economics capacity building initiative managed by GTAC on behalf of the National Treasury.
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Mining’s contribution to low- and middle-income economiesIn several low- and middle-income countries with important extractive sectors, gross national income has developed favourably. Africa has benefitted most, particularly West Africa...
Mining Development Tax revenueBlog
Tax, development and the SDGs: How we are supporting the data revolution
At the core of efforts to meet the Sustainable Development Goals lies a commitment to enhance domestic revenue mobilization. Strengthening capacity to collect tax and other revenue is key for developing countries as they move forward...
Tax Development dataWorking Paper
Health consequences of sterilizationsOne-third of married women are sterilized in India. This is largely due to family planning programs that put a strong emphasis on ‘permanent’ contraceptive methods rather than temporary ones...
Development Fertility, Human GenderWorking Paper
Intra-household bargaining in poor countriesThis paper is intended to bridge the theoretical literature describing efficient intra-household behaviour and the development literature that collects empirical regularities pointing toward the existence of strategic decision-making among spouses...
Households Efficiency DevelopmentWorking Paper
Dependence on extractive industries in lower-income countries: The statistical tendenciesThis paper synthesizes statistical information evidencing the proposition that extractive industries are of great significance in many low- and middle-income developing economies...
Development Oil GasBook
The Practice of Industrial Policy: Government–Business Coordination in Africa and East AsiaThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations...
Industrialization Industrial policy Structural transformationBook
The Political Economy of Clean Energy TransitionsThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations...
Energy Development Climate changeBook
Building State Capability: Evidence, Analysis, ActionThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations...
Development Problem Driven Iterative AdaptionWorking Paper
The curse of the one-size-fits-all fix: Re-evaluating what we know about extractives and economic developmentIn the context of falls in extractive commodities prices since 2011, this paper examines the history of thinking about the interplay between extractives and economic development...
Development Oil GasWorking Paper
Tax revenue implications of trade liberalization in low-income countriesLiberalizing trade has proven highly challenging for some low-income countries, as a large share of their tax extraction derives from trade taxation...
Trade liberalization Political regimes TaxationWorking Paper
Historical origins of persistent inequality in NigeriaHorizontal inequality by ethnic group has remained remarkably persistent for wealth, education, and access to certain services in Nigeria...
Development Ethnicity Geopolitical zoneWorking Paper
Tax structures and economic growth: New evidence from the Government Revenue DatasetRecent work on the relationship between tax structure and economic growth has offered little reliable evidence for developing countries...
Economic growth Fiscal policy DevelopmentConference
Growth and development policy – new data, new approaches, and new evidenceEconomies in the southern Africa region face thorny challenges when it comes to the transformation of their economies, job creation, and the need to share the benefits of growth. For the past three years, more than 100 researchers have engaged in a...
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Africa's Lions: Growth Traps and Opportunities for Six African Economies