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 & Monaheng Seleteng & Reneé van Eyden, 2014. "Inflation and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Southern African Development Countries," Working Papers 405, Economic Research Southern Africa.
• Alan Collins & Jen D. 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 & John W. M. Mwamba & Lorraine Greyling, 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 & Monaheng Seleteng & Reneé van Eyden, 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 & 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.
• Mario du Preez & Michael C. 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 & 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 & Edwin Muchapondwa & Steven F. Koch, 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 & 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, Policy Studies 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.
• Niek J. Schoeman & Yolandé van Heerden, 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 & Pierre Le Roux, 2014. "Analyzing the Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Public Debt Dynamics in Zimbabwe," Working Papers 409, Economic Research Southern Africa.