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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Main Authors:	Cogneau, Denis, Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine, Spielvogel, Gilles
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2016
Subjects:	tariffs liquidity constraints macroeconomic policy exchange rates monetary policy trade policy trade agreements specialization cash crops WTO
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24603

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spelling	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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spellingShingle	tariffs liquidity constraints macroeconomic policy exchange rates monetary policy trade policy trade agreements specialization cash crops WTO Cogneau, Denis Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine Spielvogel, Gilles Development at the Border : Policies and National Integration in Côte D'Ivoire and Its Neighbors
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description	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.
format	Journal Article
author	Cogneau, Denis Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine Spielvogel, Gilles
author_facet	Cogneau, Denis Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine Spielvogel, Gilles
author_sort	Cogneau, Denis
title	Development at the Border : Policies and National Integration in Côte D'Ivoire and Its Neighbors
title_short	Development at the Border : Policies and National Integration in Côte D'Ivoire and Its Neighbors
title_full	Development at the Border : Policies and National Integration in Côte D'Ivoire and Its Neighbors
title_fullStr	Development at the Border : Policies and National Integration in Côte D'Ivoire and Its Neighbors
title_full_unstemmed	Development at the Border : Policies and National Integration in Côte D'Ivoire and Its Neighbors
title_sort	development at the border : policies and national integration in côte d'ivoire and its neighbors
publisher	Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate	2016
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24603
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Development at the Border : Policies and National Integration in Côte D'Ivoire and Its Neighbors

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