Development at the Border : Policies and National Integration in Côte D'Ivoire and Its Neighbors
By applying regression discontinuity designs to a set of household surveys from the 1980–90s, we examine whether Côte d'Ivoire's aggregate wealth was translated at the borders of neighboring countries. At the border of Ghana and at the end of the 1980s, large discontinuities are detected f...
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okr-10986-246032021-04-23T14:04:23Z Development at the Border : Policies and National Integration in Côte D'Ivoire and Its Neighbors Cogneau, Denis Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine Spielvogel, Gilles tariffs liquidity constraints macroeconomic policy exchange rates monetary policy trade policy trade agreements specialization cash crops WTO By applying regression discontinuity designs to a set of household surveys from the 1980–90s, we examine whether Côte d'Ivoire's aggregate wealth was translated at the borders of neighboring countries. At the border of Ghana and at the end of the 1980s, large discontinuities are detected for consumption, child stunting, and access to electricity and safe water. Border discontinuities in consumption can be explained by differences in cash crop policies (cocoa and coffee). When these policies converged in the 1990s, the only differences that persisted were those in rural facilities. In the North, cash crop (cotton) income again made a difference for consumption and nutrition (the case of Mali). On the one hand, large differences in welfare can hold at the borders dividing African countries despite their assumed porosity. On the other hand, border discontinuities seem to reflect the impact of reversible public policies rather than intangible institutional traits. 2016-07-05T17:39:36Z 2016-07-05T17:39:36Z 2015-01 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24603 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Cote d'Ivoire Ghana Mali |
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By applying regression discontinuity designs to a set of household surveys from the 1980–90s, we examine whether Côte d'Ivoire's aggregate wealth was translated at the borders of neighboring countries. At the border of Ghana and at the end of the 1980s, large discontinuities are detected for consumption, child stunting, and access to electricity and safe water. Border discontinuities in consumption can be explained by differences in cash crop policies (cocoa and coffee). When these policies converged in the 1990s, the only differences that persisted were those in rural facilities. In the North, cash crop (cotton) income again made a difference for consumption and nutrition (the case of Mali). On the one hand, large differences in welfare can hold at the borders dividing African countries despite their assumed porosity. On the other hand, border discontinuities seem to reflect the impact of reversible public policies rather than intangible institutional traits. |
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Cogneau, Denis Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine Spielvogel, Gilles |
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Cogneau, Denis Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine Spielvogel, Gilles |
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Development at the Border : Policies and National Integration in Côte D'Ivoire and Its Neighbors |
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Development at the Border : Policies and National Integration in Côte D'Ivoire and Its Neighbors |
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Development at the Border : Policies and National Integration in Côte D'Ivoire and Its Neighbors |
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Development at the Border : Policies and National Integration in Côte D'Ivoire and Its Neighbors |
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Development at the Border : Policies and National Integration in Côte D'Ivoire and Its Neighbors |
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development at the border : policies and national integration in côte d'ivoire and its neighbors |
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Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank |
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