IGC Completed Research Papers 2010-2013

IGC Completed Research Papers 2010-2013
1. Ackah, C. Morrissey, O. and Osei, R. (2013) “Managing the Macroeconomy in an Oil Rich Country
– Ghana” IGC Working Papers
2. Asiedu E. (2013) “Natural resources, institutions and foreign direct investment” IGC Working
Papers
3. Bawakyillenuo, S. Ahiadeke, C. Osei Akoto, I and Bortei-Doku Ayeetey, E (2013) “Tertiary
education and industrial development in Ghana” IGC Working Papers
4. Kehinde, A. and Telli, H. (2013) “Imperfect information and school choice” IGC Working Papers
5. Osei, R. and Busse, M. (2013) “How important is the local private sector as a driver of good
governance?” IGC Working Papers
6. Misch, F. and Ley, E. (2013) “The Implications of Output Growth Revision for Fiscal Management
in Ghana: Challenges and Policy Recommendations” IGC Working Papers.
7. Quartey , P. Udry, C. and Al-hassan, S. (2012) “The Role of Middlemen in Marketing and Credit
Outcomes in Ghana.”. IGC Working Papers
8. Hainmueller J. Hiscox, M. and Sequeira, S (2010) “Impact of Fair Trade Certification on Rural
Livelihoods.” IGC Working Papers
9. Niels-Hugo, B. Osei, R. and Portner, C.C. (2010). “Examining the Impact of Adult Literacy
Programs on Literacy, Numeracy, Health, and Economic Well-Being in Ghana.” IGC Working
Papers
10. Bandiera, O. and Fischer G. (2013) “Can “good” HR practices be exported? Evidence from a field
experiment in Ghana” IGC Working Papers
11. Sutton, J. and Kpentey, B. (2012), An Enterprise Map of Ghana. Internatioinal Growth Centre and
London Publishing Partnership
12. Aragon, F. and Rud J.P. (2012) Modern industries, pollution and agricultural productivity:
Evidence from Ghana, Fernando IGC Working Papers
13. Berry, J. Fischer, G. and Guiteras, R. (2012) Eliciting and utilizing willingness to pay: Evidence
from field trials in northern Ghana IGC Working Papers
14. van der Ploeg, R. Stefanski, R. and Wills, S. (2012) Harnessing Oil Revenues in Ghana IGC
Working Papers
15. Thomas Walker (2011) Community Involvement in Public Goods Provision: Evidence From a Field
Experiment in Ghana IGC Working Papers
16. Masters, W. Kuwornu, J and Sarpong, D. (2011) Improving Child Nutrition through Quality
Certification of Infant Foods: Scoping Study for a Randomized Trial in Ghana IGC Working Papers
17. Adam smith. 2, volume ( London W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1776): An inquiry into the nature and
causes of the wealth of nations.
18. Paul Robin Krugman, Spantial economy (1999) Cities regions and international trade.
19. Thomas Oaltley (2010) political institutions and foreign debt in the developing world:
international studies Quarterly.
20. Christopher Udry (2008) the profits of power: land rights and agricultural investment in Ghana:
journal of political economy, university of Chicago press vol 116(6). IGC working paper
21. Ernest ayertee & Chistopher Udry, 2000, Saving in sub-saharan Africa: CID working paper
22. Prof. Nii Kwaku Sowa,(1992) ‘’Overseas development institute’’( London, England), University of
Ghana. Department of economics igc working paper
23. Paul Collier (2009) ‘’Wars, guns and votes: democracy in dangerous places’’. Harper. IGC working
paper
24. Keith Palmer, (2010) Agricultural growth and poverty reduction in Africa: the case for patient
capital briefing paper
25. G. Botchie, T. Akabzaa, E.A. Gyasi, and D. Sarpong (2007). Land Tenure, Land Use and the
environment in Ghana: Technical Publication No.72. Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic
Research (ISSER), University of Ghana
26. Francesco Caselli, Douglas Gollin & Richard Rogerson (2013), Agricultural productivity growth
and economic development in an open economy: The case of Ghana. IGC working paper.
27. Masters, William A., Kuwornu, John and Sarpong, Daniel (2011) Improving child nutrition
through quality certification of infant foods: scoping study from a randomized trial in Ghana.
28. Gertrude Torkonoo, (2012) Article: Creating Capital from culture – Re- thinking the provisions on
expressions of folklore in Ghana’s copyright law.
29. Koyama T, Mendes. C.C Mirth C.K (2013) ‘’Mechanisms regulating nutrition-dependent
developmental plasticity through organ- specific effects in insects’’.
30. Carlin, Wendy & Mayer, Colin, 2003. " Finance, investment, and growth’’ Journal of financial
Economics, , Elsevier, vol. 69(1).
31. Asare, Bossman (2012) ’’ Unitarism and Presidentialism: Political Institutions and Corruption in
Public Management in Ghana’’. Journal of Public Administration and Policy Research
32. Jonh Sutton (2012) ‘’An Interprise map of Ghana’’. (LSE). IGC working paper
33. Elizabeth Asiedu (2013)’’ Foreign direct investment, natural resources and institutions,
macroeconomics’’. IGC working paper
34. Ishac Diwan & James Robinson (2013) ‘’Financial development and the collapse of clientelism
in Ghana’’. IGC working paper.
35. Chris Udry, Ernest Aryeetey, Dean Karlan, Robert Darko Osei(2013) ’’ Examining the
underinvestment in agriculture: capital constrain and risk’’. IGC working paper
36. Juan Pablo Rud & Fernando Aragon (2013) ‘’Gold mining and Living standards in Ghanaian
household. ‘’ IGC working paper.
37. Esther Duflo, Michael kremer & Pascaline Dupas (2013) ‘’Estimated benefits to secondary school
in Africa: evidence from Ghana’’. IGC working paper.
38. Robert Darko Osei, (2013) ‘’Public goods experiment in Ghana( Governance programme and
agriculture programme)’’. IGC working paper
39. Francis Teal, (2013) ‘’Growth and informality in Urban Africa’’. IGC working paper.
40. Jeny Aker, Paul collier & Pedro Vicente, ( 2010) ’’ Counteracting illicit behavior during elections:
The role of observers and cell phones in a Field Experiment: ( Governance, Accountability and
political economy and political economy programme)’’. IGC working paper.
41. Eric Werker, (2013) ’’Learning from double-digit growth experiences: Governance,
accountability and political economy’’. IGC working paper
42. Kelsey Jack (2012) Food constrains, yield uncertainty and ‘’Ganyu’’ labour: A pilot study.IGC
working paper
43. Justice Sanderfour (2010)’’Law without justice improving acces to justice in Liberia and Sierra
Leone’’. IGC working paper
44. Catherine E cassei, Rachel Glennester & Edward Miguel, (2010)Community- driven development
in Post- conflict Sierra Leone IGC working paper.
45. Rachel Glennester, (2010) Agriculture technology adoption and infrastructure: What are the
returns and who do they accrue to? Evidence from Sierra Leone. IGC working paper.
46. Chris Blattman & Stefan Dercon, (2011) experimental study of pro-poor growth: Factories and
wage work Versus self-employment. IGC working paper
47. Pushkar Maitra, Sadip Mitra,Dilip Moorkjerjeer & Sujata Visaria, (2010) ‘’ Middleman margins,
credit and informantion constraints: potato markets in west Bengal, India’’. IGC working paper
48. Michael Callen, Syed Ali hasanain, Said Guizar & Yasir Khan, (2011) ‘’Monitoring the monitors:
Using ICT to improve government in Pujan, Pakistan’’. IGC working paper
49. Ila Patnaik, Ajay Shan, Nirvikar Singh (2013)’’ Foreign investors under stress: An event study for
India’’. IGC working paper.
50. Jacob Shapiro, Christine Fair & Rasul Baksh Rais, (2012)’’Political violence in Pakistan 19882010: Patterns and trends’’. IGC working paper
51. Mohammed Helal Uddin, (2012) ‘’Marketing institutions and food price volatility in developing
countries: Assessment of competition in sugar market of Bangladesh’’. IGC working paper
52. Mohammad A Razzaque & Selim Raihan ( 2012 ) ‘’Is an agriculture-focussed development
strategy the right choice of Bangladesh? An empirical assessment of farm-nonfarm growth
linkages’’. IGC working paper
53. Jonathan Argent, James A. Hanson & Maria Paula Gomez (2013) ‘’The regulation of mobile
money in Rwanda’’. IGC working paper
54. Innovation for poverty Action Zambia, (2013) ‘’The impact of teaching negotiation skills on girls’
education and health outcomes’’. IGC working paper.
55. Krista Tuomi (2013) ‘’Review of investment incentives: Best practice in attracting investment’’.
IGC working paper
56. E. Somanathan, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Fracois Libois & Jean-Marie Baland (2013) ‘’Exploratory
research on the impact of the forest rights Acts, 2006, on deforestation, tribal welfare and
poverty with implications for implementation strategies’’. IGC working paper.
57. Farzana Afridi, Vegard iversen & M.R Sharan (2013) ‘’ Women political leaders, corruption and
learning: evidence from evidence from a large public program in India’’. IGC working paper
58. Ram Singh, (2013) ’’ Litigation over eminent Domain compensation’’. IGC working paper.
59. Amelia Sharman, (2013) ‘’IGC India central Phase I research Output’’. IGC working paper.
60. Christopher Adam, David Kwimbere,Wilfred Mbowe & Stephen O’ Connell (2012) ‘’Food prices
and inflation in Tanzania’’. IGC working paper.
61. Bidisha Barooah (2013) ‘’Information provision and the quality of quality of education in rural
India’’. IGC working paper
62. Keith Jefferis (2013) ‘’Macroeconomic management in a mineral-rich economy’’.IGC working
paper
63. Mans Soderbom & Sophia Kamadureen (2013) ‘’Constraints and opportunities in Rwanda’s
industrial sector’’. IGC working paper
64. Syed Zahid Ali, Kashif Zaheer, Malik Syed & Muhammad Hussain (2013) ‘’Inflation and interest
rate policy’’. IGC working paper.
65. Karen El Beyrouty (2011) ‘’Pakistan floodMAPS’’. IGC working paper
66. Ato Newai Gebre-ab (2013) ‘’Economic policy and planning formulation: lessons from Ethiopia
for South Sudan’’. IGC policy brief
67. Eric Weker(2013)’’ Learning from double-digit growth experiences’’. IGC rapid response
68. Taz Chaponda(2013) ’’ Public private partnerships: Key institutional decisions’’. IGC policy brief
69. Dean Yang & Catia Batista ( 2012 )‘’Mobilizing migrant remittances for agricultural
modernization in Mozambique’’. IGC policy brief.
70. Bernardo Diaz de Astarloa, Jonathan Eaton, Kala Krishna, Bee yan Aw-Roberts, Andres
Rodriguez-Clare & James Tybout, (2013) ‘’Born-to-export firms: Understanding export growth in
Bangladesh’’. IGC working paper
71. Jonathan Argent, Britta Augsburg & Imran Rasul ( 2013) ‘’Livestock asset transfers with and
without training: Evidence from Rwanda’’. IGC working paper.
72. Keith Jefferis (2013) ’’Macroeconomic policy issues in South Sudan’’. IGC working paper
73. Manju Kedia Shah, (2012) ‘’The informal sector in Zambia: Can it disappear? Should it
disappear?’’ IGC working paper
74. Herryman Moono & Neil Rankin(2013) ‘’Education and employement in Zambia: Evidence from
a Scoping exercise’’. IGC working paper
75. Timothy J.& Torsten Persson (2010). ‘’State capacity, conflict, and development’’.Econometric
society
76. Torsten Persson &Guido Tabellini,(2009).’’Democratic capital: The nexus of political and
economic change’’, working papers
77. Torsten Persson & Guido Tabellini, (2003) ‘’How do electoral rules shape party structures,
government coalitions, and economic policies?’’ NBER working papers
78. David von Below & Torsen Persson, (2008) ‘’Uncertainty, climate change and the global
economy’’. NBR working papers
79. Esther Duflo & Abhijit V. Banerjee( 2011) ‘’Poor Economics’’.
80. Bruno Crepon, Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo & William Pariente (2012) ‘’Evaluation of the
impact of microfinance in rural areas of Morroco’’. IGC working paper
81. Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee & Nancy Qian (2011) ‘’Acces to transportation infrastructure and
economic growth in China’’. IGC working paper.
82. Esther Duflo, Michael Greenstone, Rohini, Pande & Nicholas Ryan (2013) ‘’Introducing Indian
plants to Abate pollution’’. IGC working paper.
83. Imran Rasul & Daniel Rogger (2013)’’Management of bureaucrats and public service delivery:
Evidence from Nigerian civil service’’. IGC working paper
84. Jen Hainmueller, Michael J. Hiscox & Maja Tampe (2012)’’Sustainable development for cocoa
farmers in Ghana’’.IGC working paper
85. Ronald Fisher (2013) ‘’Infrastructure PPPs: Lessons from Latin America for Africa’’. IGC working
paper.
86. Mekhala Krishnamurthy, (2013) ‘’Understanding Mandis: Market towns and the Dynamics of
India’s rural and urban transformations’’. IGC working paper
87. P.P Krishnapriya, (2013) ‘’Information and fuel choices in unequal rural household’’. IGC working
paper
88. Kenneth Reinert, Ammar Annes Malik & Sasidaran Gopalan (2013) ‘’The imperfect substitutes
model in South Asia: Pakistan-India trade liberalization in the negative list’’. IGC working paper
89. Lawrence Edwards, Robert Lawrence (2013) ‘’Zambian regional integration policy challenges’’.
IGC working paper
90. ECI Africa consulting (2013) ’’Potential of Non-traditional exports in ZambiaGrowth,employement and distribution of wealth and income’’. IGC working paper
91. Sachin Gathani & Dimitri Stoelinga (2012)’’Understanding Rwanda’s exports sector’’.IGC working
paper
92. Dave Donaldson (2011) ‘’Who’s getting globalized? Intra National trade costs and world price
pass-through in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa’’.IGC working paper
93. Kalina Manova (2011) ‘’Product quality and export success’’. IGC working paper
94. Gordon Hanson, Jeffrey Grogger & Craig McIntosh (2010) ‘’High Skilled and low Skilled
emigration from low income countries’’.IGC working paper
95. Rocco Macchiavello & Ameet Morjaria (2010) ‘’Development Blossoming: Industrial policy and
the revolution of the Kenyan and Ethiopian Floriculture exports’’. IGC working paper
96. Anjum Altaf (2012) ’’Association of small cities’’. IGC working paper
97. Marianna Belloc & Michele Di Maio ,(2011) ‘’Survey of literature on successful strategies and
practices for export promotion by developing countries’’. IGC working paper
98. Andrew Beath,Fortini Christia & Ruben Enikolov (2013) ’’Without a clearly defined
mandate,democracy can backfire’’. IGC working paper
99. Henrik Kleven, Claus Thustrup Kreiner & Emmanuel Saez (2012) ‘’Why can modern governments
tax efficiently?’’. IGC working paper
100.
Tessa Bold, Mwangi, S. Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu & Justin Sandefur (2013)’’Private
schooling cheaper and more effective than public alternative’’. IGC working paper