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Meeting 1: 8PM, Wed, Aug 31:
South-South Trade Agreements
Nicholas Li
Theoretical reading: Venables (2002),
Winners and Losers from Regional Integration Agreements. (pdf, 380Kb)
Original link
Economic Journal, 113, (2003), 747-761.
Empirical reading 1:
Sanguinetti, Traistaru, and Martincus (2004),
The Impact of South-South Preferential Trade Agreements on Industrial Development: An Empirical Test. (doc, 221Kb)
Original link
April 2003, Forthcoming, Journal of International Economics, 2004.
Empirical reading 2:
Bohara, Gawande, and Sanguinetti (2003),
Trade Diversion and Declining Tariffs: Evidence from MERCOSUR. (pdf, 456 Kb)
Original link
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Meeting 2: 5PM, Wed, Sep 14:
Project Evaluation, Instrumental Variables
Oleksa Shvets
Duflo paper 1:
Duflo (2001),
Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from and Unusual Policy Experiment. (pdf, 2.3Mb)
The American Economic Review, Vol. 91, No. 4 (Sep., 2001), 795-813.
Duflo paper 2:
Duflo (2001),
The Medium Run Effects of Educational Expansion: Evidence from a Large School Construction Program in Indonesia. (pdf, 277Kb)
Ravallion's introduction to evaluation:
Ravallion (2001),
The Mystery of the Vanishing Benefits:
An Introduction to Impact Evaluation. (pdf, 126Kb)
The World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, 115-140.
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Meeting 3: ?PM, Wed, Sep ??:
Microeconomics of growth in developing countries (Africa focus)
Benn Eifert
Theoretical paper:
Burgess and Venables (2004),
Towards a microeconomics of growth. (pdf, 747Kb)
Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics, Bangalore, India, 2003
Original
link
Empirical paper:
Eifert, Gelb, and Ramachandran (2005),
Business Environment and Comparative Advantage in Africa:
Evidence from the Investment Climate Data. (pdf, 1.01Mb)
Original link
Center for Global Development Working Paper Number 56,
February, 2005.
Optional paper 1:
Teal, et al. (2004),
Survival and success among African manufacturing firms.
(pdf, 500Kb)
Original link
Optional paper 2:
Limao and Venables (2001),
Infrastructure, geographical disadvantage, transport costs and trade.
(pdf, 115Kb)
Original link
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