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    Public health and education spending in Ghana in 1992-98: issues of equity and efficiency

    World Bank, 2001
    This paper analyses the efficiency and equity issues in public expenditures in the health and education sectors in Ghana during the 1990s using primary data from the line Ministries and household survey data from the Ghana Statistical Service.The paper highlights Ghana’s decrease in public expenditures in the education sector in the latter part of the 1990s.
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    Lessons from Uganda on strategies to fight poverty

    World Bank, 2001
    Using household data specifically collected for the purpose of evaluation, this paper evaluates the impact on household income of a rural program in China that focuses on increasing women's economic and social participation in the local community.The paper finds that the program substantially increases women's participation and household income, and also generates positive social benefits.
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    Unrestricted market access for sub-Saharan Africa: how much is it worth and who pays?

    World Bank, 2001
    Initiatives to improve market access for the poorest countries have recently been announced by the European Union, Japan, and the United States.
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    Aid versus trade revisited

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2001
    Examines the (non) equivalence between aid flows and trade preferences as alternative forms of donor assistance in the presence of learning-by-doing externalities in recipient country export production.
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    Credit constraints in manufacturing enterprises in Africa

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2001
    Paper investigates the question of whether firms in the manufacturing sector in Africa are credit constrained. The fact that few firms obtain credit is not sufficient to prove constraints, since certain firms may not have a demand for credit while others may be refused credit as part of profit maximising behaviour by banks.
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    Income risk, coping strategies and safety nets

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2001
    This paper discusses the different strategies households use to cope with their livelihood risk. It focuses on income-based strategies, on assets as self-insurance and on informal insurance arrangements. It states that households are constrained in using these strategies.
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    Human rights, political instability and investment in South Africa: a note

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2001
    This paper extends the model of Fielding (1999), which is designed to explain changes in investment in South Africa during the Apartheid period, by allowing a role for indicators of political instability and political and civil rights, as measured by Fedderke et al. (1999).
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    Why is Africa so poor?: a structural model of economic development and income inequality

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2001
    The paper extends existing work on inequality and economic development by estimating a cross-country structural model that identifies bi-directional relationships between income inequality and other indicators of social and economic development.Overall, lower inequality is associated with improvements in other development indicators, but this is the result of several complex interactions.
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    Firm size and human capital as determinants of productivity and earnings

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2001
    This paper investigates the roles of size and human capital in determining both earnings and productivity using a panel data set of matched labour firm data which allows us to control for such factors.Paper argues that neither the unobservable quality of labour, nor the unobservable characteristics of the workplace, is the source of the relationship between firm size and earnings, and that this
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    Social dilemmas and shame-based sanctions: experimental results from rural Zimbabwe

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2001
    Using two economic experiments this paper investigates how a sample of rural communities in Zimbabwe approach social dilemmas. When provided with an opportunity to impose sanctions in the context of a public goods game, fourteen out of eighteen communities achieved higher levels of cooperation.

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