European colonization and the corruption of local elites: The case of chiefs in Africa

Autor: Abdulaziz B. Shifa, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Merima Ali

Publikováno v: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 179:80-100

The association between British colonial rule and lower levels of corruption is often emphasized in legal origins literature (La Porta et al., 2008). However, given the historical context of Africa, we hypothesize that Britain's system of colonial co

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2020.08.043

Colonial Legacy, State-building and the Salience of Ethnicity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Autor: Boqian Jiang, Abdulaziz B. Shifa, Merima Ali, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad

Publikováno v: The Economic Journal. 129:1048-1081

Ethnicity has received increased attention in studies of Africa's economic and institutional development. We present evidence on the long-term effects of Britain's \divide-and-rule colonial strategy that deliberately fostered ethnic rivalries to weak

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https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12595

Why can we not demonstrate the difference that Norwegian aid makes? An evaluation of the results measurement system and practice

Autor: Derek Poate, Espen Villanger, Rob Lloyd, Merima Ali

Publikováno v: Journal of Development Effectiveness. 8:171-195

We assess why the Norwegian aid administration is not able to document its results. We find that the system is not designed to provide the necessary documentation for results assessments, the staff are not trained in a way that would ensure adequate

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https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2015.1096297

Clustering as an Organizational Response to Capital Market Inefficiency: Evidence from Microenterprises in Ethiopia

Autor: Merima Ali, Xiaobo Zhang, Jack Peerlings

Publikováno v: Small Business Economics 43 (2014) 3
Small Business Economics, 43(3), 697-709

Absence of a well-developed capital market has been listed as a key obstacle to industrialization in developing countries in the development literature. In this paper, we show that industrial clusters, through specialization and division of labor, ca

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-014-9555-7

Value Added of Cluster Membership for Micro Enterprises of the Handloom Sector in Ethiopia

Autor: Merima Ali, Jack Peerlings

Publikováno v: International Conference of Agricultural Economists "The New Landscape of Global Agriculture", Beijing, China, 16-22 August, 2009. Beijing: International Association of Agricultural Economists
International Conference of Agricultural Economists "The New Landscape of Global Agriculture", Beijing, China, 16-22 August, 2009
World Development 39 (2011) 3
World Development, 39(3), 363-374

Summary By contrasting the performance of clustered micro enterprises with that of dispersed ones in the handloom sector in Ethiopia, this study shows that clustering significantly increases profit. To correct for selection bias, we match clustered a

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.07.002