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The Global Cost of Violence
CNN interviewed Anke Hoeffler on the global cost of violence. The news feature was based on a new report by James Fearon and Anke Hoeffler that estimates the annual costs of violence at around $9.5 trillion, which is about 11 … Continue reading
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Agricultural Technology and Structural Change
Developing countries employ a relatively large share of their workers in agriculture, and the labor productivity of those agricultural workers is only a fraction of that found in the developed world. Together, these two facts account for a significant portion … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Aid, Development, Growth, Labour, productivity, technology
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How to increase your GDP without anyone noticing
African GDP statistics have been in the news recently. Both Ghana and Nigeria in West Africa have seen revisions to their GDP which, in the case of Ghana, has made it a middle income country with per capita GDP, in … Continue reading
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Tagged Development, Employment, Growth, Inequality, Jobs, Labour, Nigeria
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The Potential for Mobile Technology to Improve Agricultural Efficiency
The spread of mobile technology has been transformative in many developing countries. Mobile phones have lowered price dispersion, enabled mobile banking and transfers, and connected an increasing number of people to the internet. Agricultural production in developing countries has been … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Development, Household decision-making, mobile phone, Risk and insurance, Rural, technology
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Conflict Minerals, Consumers and Industry Lobbying
For years a number of academics and advocacy groups have highlighted the role of minerals in civil wars. Minerals like tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold often provide rebel groups with a valuable source of finance. For example a number of … Continue reading
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Tagged Coltan, Conflict, Development, Exports, Minerals, Natural Resources
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State Capacity in Developing Countries
A state that is able to protect its citizens, enforce property rights and provide public goods acts as the backbone of a functional economy. Researchers call this ability of the state to carry out its objectives ‘state capacity’, and there … Continue reading
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Tagged Aid, CSAE2014, Development, Institutions, Public Goods, Taxation
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What Schooling Did: The effect of education on the educated, their families and their communities
In the most optimistic view of the world, education is meant to be transformative, changing the fortunes of individuals and their families, and spreading by example to the peers of the educated. While this view accords with the policy rhetoric … Continue reading
Mobile technologies in Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest levels of infrastructure quality in the world. However, 80% of adults in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal have a mobile phone, despite the fact that a large proportion of them live in poverty with no … Continue reading
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Tagged Credit and savings, CSAE2014, Development, Risk and insurance, Social Networks
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Short-term Migration and India’s Employment Guarantee
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is one of the world’s biggest anti-poverty public workfare programmes, provisioning for 100 days of guaranteed employment in a year to every rural household in India. The idea behind this programme has been … Continue reading
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The 2012 CSAE Conference
The 2012 CSAE Conference begins tomorrow at St. Catherine’s College, here in Oxford. The conference is probably the largest annual gathering of economists working on Africa. There will be an impressive array of speakers at the conference, including Stefan Dercon, … Continue reading
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