Finn Tarp
Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow
Professor Tarp has four decades of experience in academic and applied development economics research and teaching. His field experience covers more than two decades of in-country work in 35 countries across Africa and the developing world more...
Journal Article
Labor-use efficiency in Tunisian manufacturing industries
This paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian manufacturing industries observed over a period of 25 years, from 1971 to 1996...
Commercial policy Labour demand Manufacturing industries
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How should commodities be taxed?: A counter-argument to the recommendation in the Mirrlees Review
The Mirrlees Review recommends that commodity taxation should in general be uniform, but with some goods consumed in conjunction with labour supply (such as child care) left untaxed...
Public goods Taxation
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The Welfare Effects of Health-based Food Tax Policy
This paper examines the effects of health-oriented food tax reforms on the distribution of tax payments, food demand and health outcomes...
Health Taxation
Journal Article
Can Cities or Towns Drive African Development?: Economywide Analysis for Ethiopia and Uganda
Rapid urbanization is an important characteristic of African development and yet the structural transformation debate focuses on agriculture’s relative merits without also considering the benefits from urban agglomeration...
Economic development Gross national product Poverty
Journal Article
Optimum Reserve Size, Fishing Induced Change in Carrying Capacity, and Phenotypic Diversity
Fish stocks around the world are heavily overexploited in spite of fishing policies in several parts of the world designed to limit overfishing...
Aquaculture Natural resources
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Public Provision, Commodity Demand, and Hours of Work: An Empirical Analysis
The theoretical analysis of optimal commodity taxation is advanced, but there is only limited empirical evidence to guide commodity tax policies...
Children Public goods Taxation
Working Paper
The Idea of Economic Development: Views from Africa
Although development generally refers to a broad concept, the quest for development in Sub-Saharan Africa has been biased by ideological considerations which made abstraction of local conditions and people’s aspirations...
Economic development
Working Paper
Regulatory Reform for Closing Africa’s Competitiveness Gap
Over the past decade, Africa has been experiencing an economic resurgence. Yet, the continent is facing several difficult challenges and many economies of the region continue to be among the least competitive in the world...
Competition Industrial policy International economic relations
Working Paper
Social Transfers and Growth: The Missing Evidence from Luminosity Data
The effects of social transfers on growth are still unclear. The limitations of aggregated data at sub-national levels have confined the analysis to the use of simulation models and household surveys...
Economic development Government policy (Poor) Public welfare
Blog
Africa’s Low Hanging Fruits
by Justin Lin, Yan Wang
April 2014
23 April 2014 Justin Yifu Lin and Yan Wang At the onset of its miraculous rise in 1979, China had been trapped in poverty for centuries and was poorer than most sub-Saharan African countries...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development Economic growth
Working Paper
The Economics of Marriage in North Africa
Marriage is the single most important economic transaction and social transition in the lives of young people. Yet little is known about the economics of marriage in much of the developing world...
Families Game theory Economic power
Working Paper
Innovation Capabilities for Sustainable Development in Africa
A sustainable pathway for Africa in the twenty-first century is laid out in the setting of the development of innovation capabilities and the capture of latecomer advantages...
Economic development Industrial policy Industrialization
Working Paper
The Theory and Practice of Agriculture, Growth, and Development in Africa
Africa’s improved growth performance over the last 15 years provides an opportunity for the continent to transit from recovery to structural transformation...
Agriculture Economic development Economic policy