Report NEP-AFR-2012-06-25

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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• Estian Calitz & Hassan Essop, 2012. "Fiscal centralisation in a federal state: the South African case," Working Papers 10/2012, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.
• Perakis, Sonja Melissa, 2012. "“Changing Spatial Maize Price Relationships in West Africa”," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124910, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Coxhead, Ian A. & Foltz, Jeremy D. & Mogues, Tewodaj, 2012. "Does freer trade really lead to productivity growth? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124958, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• ALLEN, Franklin & CARLETTI, Elena & CULL, Robert & QIAN, Jun & SENBET, Lemma & VALENZUELA, Patricio, 2012. "Resolving the African Financial Development Gap: Cross-country comparisons and a within-country study of Kenya," Economics Working Papers ECO2012/15, European University Institute.
• Demirguc-Kunt, Asli & Klapper, Leora, 2012. "Financial inclusion in Africa : an overview," Policy Research Working Paper Series 6088, The World Bank.
• Badibanga, Thaddee Mutumba & Ulimwengu, John M., 2012. "The Sophistication and Diversification of the African Agricultural Sector: A Product Space Approach," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124498, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Michael Rogan, 2012. "Poverty and headship in post-apartheid South Africa, 1997-2008," Working Papers 288, Economic Research Southern Africa.
• Kuikeu, Oscar, 2012. "Structure des exportations des économies africaines au sud du sahara et mésalignement du taux de change réel : cas de la zone franc [Manufactured exports and real exchange rate misalignment : cfa f," MPRA Paper 39346, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Lawrence Edwards & Neil Rankin, 2012. "Is Africa Integrating? Evidence from Product Markets," Working Papers 292, Economic Research Southern Africa.
• Nakano, Yuko & Kajisa, Kei, 2012. "How does the Adoption of Modern Variety increase Productivity and Income? : A Case of the Rice Sector in Tanzania," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124924, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Paul Collier & Anthony Venables, 2012. "Greening Africa? Technologies, endowments and the latecomer effect," OxCarre Working Papers 089, Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies, University of Oxford.
• Zanello, Giacomo & Shankar, Bhavani & Srinivasan, Chittur S., 2012. "Receiving incorrect information is costly: Diffusion and accuracy of market information among farmers in northern Ghana," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 123967, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Bellemare, Marc F. & Moser, Christine M., 2012. "State and Power in Rural Africa: Evidence from Madagascar," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124986, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Paul Collier & Anthony Venables, 2011. "Land Deals in Africa: pioneers and speculators," OxCarre Working Papers 069, Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies, University of Oxford.
• Marenya, Paswel Phiri & Smith, Vincent H. & Nkonya, Ephraim M., 2012. "Subsistence farmer preferences for alternative incentive policies to encourage the adoption of conservation agriculture in Malawi: A choice elicitation approach," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124010, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Jason Gagnon & David Khoudour-Castéras, 2012. "South-South Migration in West Africa: Addressing the Challenge of Immigrant Integration," OECD Development Centre Working Papers 312, OECD Publishing.
• Johan Fourie & Jan Luiten van Zanden, 2012. "GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: The national accounts of a slave-based society," Working Papers 0030, Utrecht University, Centre for Global Economic History.
• Albert Mafusire & Zuzana Brixiova, 2012. "Macroeconomic Shock Synchronization in the East African Community," William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series wp1031, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan.
• Rulof Burger & Servaas van der Berg & Dieter von Fintel, 2012. "The unintended consequences of education policies on South African participation and unemployment," Working Papers 11/2012, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.
• Anderson, Kym & Bruckner, Markus, 2012. "Distortions to Agriculture and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124908, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Jakiela, Pamela & Ozier, Owen, 2012. "Does Africa need a rotten Kin Theorem ? experimental evidence from village economies," Policy Research Working Paper Series 6085, The World Bank.
• Taha, Fawzi A. & Hahn, William F., 2012. "Modeling South Africa’s Meat Import Demand System," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124582, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Ibrahim, Mohammed & Florkowski, Wojciech J. & Kolavalli, Shashidhara, 2012. "Determinants of Farmer Adoption of Improved Peanut Varieties and their Impact on Farm Income: Evidence from Northern Ghana," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 125000, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Rodrigo, Maria F., 2012. "Do cooperatives help the poor? Evidence from Ethiopia," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124388, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob & Jones, Michael, 2012. "Does Access to Storage Protectant Increase Smallholder Adoption of Improved Maize Seed? Insights from Malawi," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124658, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Muyanga, Milu & Jayne, Thomas S., 2012. "Effects of Population Density on Smallholder Agricultural Production and Commercialization in Rural Kenya," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124993, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Lybbert, Travis J. & Foltz, Jeremy D., 2012. "How much drought is ‘just right’?Spatial Differences in ‘Optimal Drought Severity’ for Drought Tolerant Maize," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124794, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Pangapanga, Phiriinnocent & Thangalimodzi, Lucy Tembo, 2012. "Participation in pro poor agro based enterprises in Malawi: do households’ poverty levels change automatically?," MPRA Paper 39446, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Bizimana, Jean-Claude & Angerer, Jay P. & Bessler, David A., 2012. "Cattle Markets Integration and Price Discovery in Three Developing Countries of Mali, Kenya, and Tanzania," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124550, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Sekabira, Haruna & Bonabana-Wabbi, Jackline & Asingwire, Narathius, 2012. "Determinants for Adoption of ICT-Based Market Information Services by Smallholder Farmers and Traders in Mayuge District, Uganda," 2012 Conference, August 18-24, 2012, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil 125100, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
• Johannes W. Fedderke, 2012. "The Cost of Rigidity: The Case of the South African Labor Market," Working Papers 290, Economic Research Southern Africa.
• Henning, Christian H.C.A. & Seide, Laura, 2012. "Voter behavior, government capture and accountability in Sub-Sahara African States: A comparative analysis based on cross-country estimations of probabilistic voting models," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124949, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Aderinoye-Abdulwahab, S.A. & Adefalu, L.L., 2012. "Pastoral Communities in Nigeria: Another Case of Marginalisation," 2012 Conference (56th), February 7-10, 2012, Fremantle, Australia 124218, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
• Sebaggala, Richard & Okello, Patrick, 2010. "An Econometric Analysis Of The Link Between Access To Agricultural Extension Services, Adoption Of Agricultural Technology And Poverty: Evidence For Uganda," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124622, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Jen D. Snowball, 2012. "Are arts events a good way of augmenting the economic impact of sports? The case of the 2010 Soccer World Cup and the National Arts Festival in South Africa," Working Papers 294, Economic Research Southern Africa.
• Carlberg, Eric & Kostandini, Genti & Dankyi, Awere, 2012. "The Effects of Integrated Pest Management Techniques (IPM) Farmer Field Schools on Groundnut Productivity: Evidence from Ghana," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124876, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Foltz, Jeremy D. & Aldana, Ursula & Laris, Paul, 2012. "The Sahel’s Silent Maize Revolution: Analyzing Maize Productivity in Mali at the Farm-level," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124633, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Josephson, Anna Leigh & Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob & Florax, Raymond J.G.M. & Chamberlain, Jordan & Heady, Derek, 2012. "How does Population Density affect Agricultural Productivity? Evidence from Ethiopia," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124996, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Emilie Caldeira & Martial Foucault & Grégoire Rota-Graziosi, 2012. "Decentralisation in Africa and the Nature of Local Governments' Competition: Evidence from Benin," NBER Working Papers 18126, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Abatania, Luke N. & Hailu, Atakelty & Mugera, Amin W., 2012. "Analysis of farm household technical efficiency in Northern Ghana using bootstrap DEA," 2012 Conference (56th), February 7-10, 2012, Fremantle, Australia 124211, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
• Aye, Goodness C., 2012. "The Long and Short Run Impacts of Food and Energy Price Shocks: Evidence from Nigeria," 2012 Conference (56th), February 7-10, 2012, Fremantle, Australia 125048, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
• Smith, Vincent H. & Marenya, Paswel Phiri & Nkonya, Ephraim M. & Droppelmann, Klaus, 2012. "The Role of Dynamic Learning Games in Improving Survey Information from Subsistence Farmers: Evidence from Malawi," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124635, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Dieter von Fintel & Rulof P. Burger & Servaas van der Berg, 2012. "The unintended consequences of education policies on South African participation and unemployment," Working Papers 289, Economic Research Southern Africa.
• Uregia, Nigussie Tefera & Desta, Mulat Demeke & Rashid, Shahidur, 2012. "Welfare Impacts of Rising Food Prices in Rural Ethiopia: a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System Approach," 2012 Conference, August 18-24, 2012, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil 124861, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
• Beyene, Berhe Mekonnen, 2012. "The Effects of International Remittances on Poverty and Inequality in Ethiopia," Memorandum 13/2012, Oslo University, Department of Economics.
• Branca, Giacomo & Lipper, Leslie & Sorrentino, Alessandro, 2012. "Benefit-costs analysis of climate-related agricultural investments in Africa: a case study," 2012 First Congress, June 4-5, 2012, Trento, Italy 124109, Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA).
• Meng, Ting & Florkowski, Wojciech J. & Kolavalli, Shashidhara & Ibrahim, Mohammed, 2012. "Food Expenditures and Income in Rural Households in the Northern Region of Ghana," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124638, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Janzen, Sarah A. & Carter, Michael R. & Ikegami, Munenobu, 2012. "Valuing Asset Insurance in the Presence of Poverty Traps: A Dynamic Approach," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124805, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Sakellariou, Chris, 2012. "Decomposing the increase in TIMSS Scores in Ghana : 2003-2007," Policy Research Working Paper Series 6084, The World Bank.
• Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina & Pozo, Susan, 2012. "Remittances and Portfolio Values: An Inquiry Using Spanish Immigrants from Africa, Europe and the Americas," IZA Discussion Papers 6622, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Flory, Jeffrey A., 2012. "Formal Savings Spillovers on Microenterprise Growth and Production Decisions Among Non-Savers in Villages: Evidence from a Field Experiment," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 125013, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Beyene, Berhe Mekonnen, 2012. "The Link between International Remittances and Private Interhousehold Transfers," Memorandum 14/2012, Oslo University, Department of Economics.
• Boakye, Daniel & Dessus, Sebastien & Foday, Yusuf & Oppong, Felix, 2012. "Investing mineral wealth in development assets : Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone," Policy Research Working Paper Series 6089, The World Bank.
• Pieralli, Simone, 2012. "Sources of measured agricultural yield difference," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124771, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Anderson, C. Leigh & Reynolds, Travis William & Gugerty, Mary Kay, 2012. "Spousal Accord and the Costs of Household Decision-making in Tanzania and Mali," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 125018, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Gilligan, Daniel O. & Kumar, Neha & McNiven, Scott & Meenakshi, J.V. & Quisumbing, Agnes R., 2012. "Bargaining-Power and Biofortification: The Role of Gender in Adoption of Orange Sweet Potato in Uganda," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 125017, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Theriault, Veronique & Sterns, James A., 2012. "John R. Commons and the Evolution of Institutions: The Case of the Malian Cotton Sector," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124460, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Robinson, Elizabeth J.Z. & Albers, Heidi J. & Lokina, Razack & Ngeleza, Guyslain, 2012. "Insiders, Outsiders, and the Role of Local Enforcement in Forest Management: An Example from Tanzania," RFF Working Paper Series dp-12-07-efd, Resources for the Future.
• Veronesi, Marcella & Schlondorn, Tim & Zabel, Astrid & Engel, Stefanie, 2012. "Designing REDD+ Schemes to Address Permanence Concerns: Empirical Evidence from Kenya," 2012 First Congress, June 4-5, 2012, Trento, Italy 124131, Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA).
• Gammadigbé, Vigninou, 2012. "Les cycles économiques des pays de l'UEMOA: synchrones ou déconnectés? [Business cycles in the WAEMU countries: synchronous or disconnected?]," MPRA Paper 39400, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised Jun 2012.
• Essam, Timothy M., 2012. "Using Satellite-Based Remote Sensing Data to Assess Millet Price Regimes and Market Performance in Niger," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124654, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Sassi, Maria & Cardaci, Alberto, 2012. "Impact of climate change on wheat market and food security in Sudan: stochastic approach and CGE model and CGE Model," 2012 First Congress, June 4-5, 2012, Trento, Italy 124110, Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA).