Report NEP-AFR-2014-02-02

This is the archive for NEP-AFR, a report on new working papers in the area of Africa. Quentin Wodon issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• James Fenske & Namrata Kala, 2014. "1807: Economic shocks, conflict and the slave trade," CSAE Working Paper Series 2014-02, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
• Mason, Nicole M. & Jayne, T.S. & Mofya-Mukuka, Rhoda, 2013. "A Review of Zambia’s Agricultural Input Subsidy Programs: Targeting, Impacts, and the Way Forward," Food Security Collaborative Working Papers 162438, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics.
• Carolyn Chisadza & Manoel Bittencourt, 2014. "Is Democracy Eluding Sub-Saharan Africa?," Working Papers 201403, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics.
• Manoel Bittencourt, 2014. "Education and Fertility: Panel Time-Series Evidence from Southern Africa," Working Papers 201402, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics.
• Marcel Kohler, 2013. "Differential Electricity Pricing and Energy Efficiency in South Africa," Working Papers 396, Economic Research Southern Africa.
• Manoel Bittencourt, Renee van Eyden and Monaheng Seleteng, 2014. "Inflation and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Southern African Development Countries," Working Papers 405, Economic Research Southern Africa.
• Alan Collins and Jen Snowball, 2013. "Transformation, Job Creation and Subsidies to Creative Industries: The Case of South Africa’s Film and Television Sector," Working Papers 401, Economic Research Southern Africa.
• Grietjie Verhoef, Lorraine Greyling and John Mwamba, 2014. "Savings and economic growth: A historical analysis of the relationship between savings and economic growth in the Cape Colony economy, 1850 - 1909," Working Papers 408, Economic Research Southern Africa.
• Gabrielle Wills, 2014. "The Effects of Teacher Strike Activity on Student Learning in South African Primary Schools," Working Papers 402, Economic Research Southern Africa.
• Manoel Bittencourt, Renee van Eyden and Monaheng Seleteng, 2014. "Inflation and Economic Growth in the SADC: Some Panel Time-Series Evidence," Working Papers 404, Economic Research Southern Africa.
• Justin Visagie, 2013. "Race, Gender and Growth of the Affluent Middle Class in Post-Apartheid South Africa," Working Papers 395, Economic Research Southern Africa.
• de Walque, Damien & Dow, William H. & Gong, Erick, 2014. "Coping with risk : the effects of shocks on reproductive health and transactional sex in rural Tanzania," Policy Research Working Paper Series 6751, The World Bank.
• Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor & Peter A.G. van Bergeijk, 2014. "Measuring multi-membership in economic integration and its trade-impact. A comparative study of ECOWAS and SADC," Economics Working Papers 2014-06, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University.
• Leroi Raputsoane and Ruthira Naraidoo, 2014. "Debt sustainability and financial crises in South Africa," Working Papers 403, Economic Research Southern Africa.
• Edgar F.A. Cooke & Sarah Hague & John Cockburn & Abdel-Rahmen El Lahga & Luca Tiberti, 2014. "Estimating the impact on poverty of Ghana’s fuel subsidy reform and a mitigating response," Working Papers MPIA 2014-02, PEP-MPIA.
• Saule Baurzhan & Glenn P. Jenkins, 2014. "Solar versus Combined Cycle Electricity Generation in Capital Constrained African Economies: Which is Greener?," Development Discussion Papers 2014-02, JDI Executive Programs.
• Nonso Obikili, 2014. "The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Local Political Fragmentation in Africa," Working Papers 406, Economic Research Southern Africa.
• Strange, Austin M. & Parks , Bradley & Tierney, Michael J. & Fuchs, Andreas & Dreher , Axel, 2014. "Tracking Under-Reported Financial Flows: China’s Development Finance and the Aid-Conflict Nexus Revisited," Working Papers 0553, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics.
• Winkler, Adalbert & Wagner, Charlotte, 2013. "Growth patterns of microfinance clients - Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa," VfS Annual Conference 2013 (Duesseldorf): Competition Policy and Regulation in a Global Economic Order 79945, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
• M du Preez and MC Sale, 2014. "Municipal assessments versus actual sales price information in hedonic price studies: A South African case study," Working Papers 411, Economic Research Southern Africa.
• Daniel King and Ferdi Botha, 2014. "Modelling Stock Return Volatility Dynamics in Selected African Markets," Working Papers 410, Economic Research Southern Africa.
• James Levinsohn & Neil Rankin & Gareth Roberts & Volker Schöer, 2014. "Wage subsidies and youth employment in South Africa: Evidence from a randomised control trial," Working Papers 02/2014, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.
• Dambala Gelo, Steven F. Koch and Edwin Muchapondwa, 2013. "Do the Poor Benefit from Devolution Policies? Evidences from Quantile Treatment Effect Evaluation of Joint Forest Management," Working Papers 400, Economic Research Southern Africa.
• Eliphas Ndou and Siobhan Redford, 2014. "Relative price variability: Which components of the consumer price index contribute towards its variability?," Working Papers 412, Economic Research Southern Africa.
• Dranev Yury & Fomkina Sofya, 2013. "Colog asset pricing, evidence from emerging markets," HSE Working papers WP BRP 26/FE/2013, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
• Achyuta Adhvaryu & James Fenske & Anant Nyshadham, 2014. "Early Life Circumstance and Mental Health in Ghana," CSAE Working Paper Series 2014-03, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
• Girum Abebe & Florian Schaefer, 2014. "High Hopes and Limited Successes: Experimenting with Industrial Polices in the Leather Industry in Ethiopia," Working Papers 011, Ethiopian Development Research Institute.
• Federico Ciani & Gianna Claudia Giannelli, 2013. "Surviving the Genocide: The Impact of the Rwandan Genocide on Child Mortality," CHILD Working Papers Series 20, Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) - CCA.
• Jean-Yves Duclos & Angela Kiconco & Sebastian Levine & Joseph Enyimu & Alex Warren Rodriguez & Albert Musisi, 2013. "Poverty and Social Impact Analysis:Universal Primary Education in Uganda: Equity in Opportunities and Human Capital Investment," Working Papers PMMA 2013-17, PEP-PMMA.
• Andrew Mitchell, 2013. "Risk and Resilience: From Good Idea to Good Practice," OECD Development Co-operation Working Papers 13, OECD Publishing.
• Raggl, Anna K., 2014. "Economic growth in Ghana : determinants and prospect," Policy Research Working Paper Series 6750, The World Bank.
• Sylvie Lambert & Martin Ravallion & Dominique van de Walle, 2014. "Intergenerational Mobility and Interpersonal Inequality in an African Economy," PSE Working Papers halshs-00933975, HAL.
• Véronique Robichaud & Luca Tiberti & Hélène Maisonnave, 2014. "Impact of increased public education spending on growth and poverty in Uganda. An integrated micro-macro approach," Working Papers MPIA 2014-01, PEP-MPIA.
• Martins, Pedro, 2014. "Structural change in Ethiopia : an employment perspective," Policy Research Working Paper Series 6749, The World Bank.
• Yolandé van Heerden and N.J. Schoeman, 2013. "Measuring the Impact of Marginal Tax Rate Reform on the Revenue Base of South Africa Using a Microsimulation Tax Model," Working Papers 397, Economic Research Southern Africa.
• Remi Jedwab & Edward Kerby & Alexander Moradi, 2014. "History, Path Dependence and Development: Evidence from Colonial Railroads, Settlers and Cities in Kenya," CSAE Working Paper Series 2014-04, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
• Dean Karlan & Leigh L. Linden, 2014. "Loose Knots: Strong versus Weak Commitments to Save for Education in Uganda," NBER Working Papers 19863, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Nebson Mupunga and Pierre Le Roux, 2014. "Analyzing the Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Public Debt Dynamics in Zimbabwe," Working Papers 409, Economic Research Southern Africa.