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Can fungibility of development aid lead to more effective achievement of the SDGs?: An analysis of the aggregate welfare effect of aid fungibilityIn this paper, we explore the relationship between foreign aid fungibility and aggregate welfare...
Foreign aid Econometrics Aggregate welfarePolicy Brief
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Manufacturing Transformation: Comparative Studies of Industrial Development in Africa and Emerging 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...
Competition Econometrics GlobalizationWorking Paper
Financial systems in new middle-income African economies: The opportunities and the risksThis paper examines the possible implications for the financial systems of low-income African economies and in particular Tanzania of their stated aspiration to achieve middle-income status...
Econometrics Economic development FinanceBook
Made in Africa: Learning to Compete in IndustryOver the past forty years, industry and business interests have moved increasingly from the developed to the developing world, yet Africa’s share of global manufacturing has fallen from about 3 percent in 1970 to less than 2 percent in 2014...
Competition Econometrics GlobalizationWorking Paper
Estimating the level and distribution of global wealth, 2000–14Davies et al. (2008, 2011) provided the first estimates of the global distribution of wealth, using 2000 as the benchmark year...
Econometrics Income distributionJournal Article
Characterizing wind power resource reliability in southern AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Prospects for Renewable Energy in Africa
Climate change Econometrics Infrastructure (Economics)Journal Article
Is the Clean Development Mechanism effective for emission reductions?The UNFCCC COP 17 Durban conference confirmed the need to reach an all-party-inclusive global climate agreement by 2015 as the successor of the Kyoto Protocol...
Climate change Econometrics EnvironmentWorking Paper
The Effect of Climate Change on Economic Growth: Evidence from Sub-Saharan AfricaThis paper is a contribution to the empirics of climate change and its effect on sustainable economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa...
Econometrics Econometric models (Economic development) Environmental economicsBlog
From the Editor's Desk (December 2013)
10 December 2013 Tony Addison Our November-December Angle comes amid intense activity on our ReCom—Research and Communication on Foreign Aid—programme, which is drawing to a close...
Agriculture Aggregation operators BudgetWorking Paper
Is Kazakhstan Vulnerable to Natural Resource Curse?This study utilizes panel data from 14 provinces of Kazakhstan and investigates the link between the point-source resources (oil and gas) and economic growth via institutional quality...
Agriculture Econometrics Raw materialsWorking Paper
Foreign Aid and Mobilization of Growth Factors in Sub-Saharan AfricaThis study addresses the macroeconomic effect of foreign aid on the factors of growth. Specifically, we examine the effects of foreign aid on capital investment (human capital, physical capital) in sub-Saharan Africa...
Capital Econometrics Economic assistance and foreign aidWorking Paper
Is the Clean Development Mechanism Effective for Emission Reductions?This research studies whether the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol achieves its objective of emission reductions in the host countries...
Climate change Econometrics EnvironmentJournal Article
Measuring the Effect of Spell Recurrence on Poverty Dynamics: Evidence from SpainPart of Journal Special Issue Measuring Poverty Over Time
Econometrics Income distribution Mathematical statisticsJournal Article
Subjective Well-Being and Reference-Dependence: Insights from MexicoPart of Journal Special Issue Measuring Poverty Over Time
Econometrics Economic development Poverty measurementJournal Article
Firm-Level Corruption in VietnamThis article uses panel data from a survey of small- and medium-sized enterprises in Vietnam to uncover which firms pay bribes and which do not...
Informal sector Econometrics Entrepreneurship