{"title":"Empirical evidence on the relationship between migrants' remittances and private investment in Burkina Faso: A dynamic simultaneous equation model","authors":"Abdoul Hadirou Yoda, Achille Augustin Diendere","doi":"10.1002/jid.3862","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jid.3862","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This research explores the channels through which migrant remittances can promote private investment. The research method favours a dynamic simultaneous equation model estimated using a combination of the bootstrap method and the three-stage least squares estimator to account for the interdependence between remittances and private investment. The study area is Burkina Faso, and the period of analysis covers the period 1985–2021. One of the main findings is that the level of corruption risk and the demographic dependency ratio are important transmission channels. Findings suggest creating an institutional framework that enhances the level of transparency and accountability and accelerates the demographic transition process.</p>","PeriodicalId":47986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Development","volume":"36 2","pages":"1468-1488"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138998492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A theory of famines—A response","authors":"Adel Daoud","doi":"10.1002/jid.3869","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jid.3869","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Development","volume":"36 6","pages":"2505-2512"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139008301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Happy’ activists: Non-governmental organization staff navigating the social movement/service provider divide in India","authors":"Liz Mount","doi":"10.1002/jid.3871","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jid.3871","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the Global South, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) face criticism; staff employ strategies to mitigate it. What happens when NGO staff express different levels of awareness about such criticism? How are these differences shaped by whether staff identify themselves as ‘community’ members the NGO serves or ‘non-community’ members whose work serves the community? How do these identities impact NGOs? Through an 18-month ethnographic study at a large NGO in Bangalore, India, I show that NGO staff members' identification as ‘community’ or ‘non-community’ members shapes their perceptions of the NGO, their work and the NGO's work. I trace these differing perceptions to mission creep.</p>","PeriodicalId":47986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Development","volume":"36 2","pages":"1450-1467"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139008755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Secular stagnation: Is immigration part of the solution?","authors":"José Alves, Sandro Morgado","doi":"10.1002/jid.3866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3866","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We review the secular stagnation hypothesis, first postulated by Hansen in 1939, to describe the current macroeconomic dynamics faced by developed economies. We argue that these economies are experiencing secular stagnation and that demographic factors play a significant role in this macroeconomic environment. Using a panel data analysis covering the period 1965–2020 for 15 European Union economies, our paper suggests that immigration should be considered as a potential solution to this problem. Our results show that demographic factors do indeed play a significant role in secular stagnation and that immigration has a positive impact in this macroeconomic context.</p>","PeriodicalId":47986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Development","volume":"36 2","pages":"1426-1449"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140135364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Labour migration market and policy failure: A comparative study of the Philippines and Nepal","authors":"Santosh Adhikari, Bimala Khatri","doi":"10.1002/jid.3865","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jid.3865","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Labour migration is one of many strategies adopted by developing countries to achieve economic growth, but its success varies across countries. Migrant workers often face issues related to their welfare and protection at their workplace due to information asymmetries and power imbalances in the labour market. This study compares the policies and initiatives of the Philippines and Nepal, aligning them with the Decent Work agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals. The study's findings underscore the importance of considering various factors that impact the welfare and protection of migrant workers to achieve sustainable socio-economic growth in labour sending countries.</p>","PeriodicalId":47986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Development","volume":"36 2","pages":"1407-1425"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jid.3865","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138605642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ebenezer Boateng, Peterson Owusu Junior, John G. Gatsi, Adam M. Anokye, Mac Junior Abeka, Emmanuel Asafo-Adjei
{"title":"Institutions and venture capital market development in sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Ebenezer Boateng, Peterson Owusu Junior, John G. Gatsi, Adam M. Anokye, Mac Junior Abeka, Emmanuel Asafo-Adjei","doi":"10.1002/jid.3864","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jid.3864","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We investigate the critical interplay between economic institutions and political institutions and assess their influence on venture capital market development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). To address endogeneity concern in our model specification, the two-step system generalised method of moments was employed on a sample of 34 SSA countries from 2007 to 2018. The findings reveal that strengthening disaggregated measures of economic institutions, comprising legal system and property rights, size of government, sound money, regulations, and freedom to trade internationally spur venture capital market development in SSA. Finally, the evidence indicates that political institutions condition the influence of economic institutions on venture capital market development. The implications for policy are further discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Development","volume":"36 2","pages":"1381-1406"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138605216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital divides among microenterprises: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Damien Girollet","doi":"10.1002/jid.3860","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jid.3860","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper investigates digital inequalities in usage within African informal sectors. In particular, we examine whether the uneven digital diffusion is embedded in pre-existing socio-economic inequalities. After identifying three segments of informal firms, we rely on multivariate and decomposition analyses to identify predictors of usage of digital technologies for business purposes and explain usage gaps between segments. Our findings suggest that digital inequalities are rooted in the vertical heterogeneity of informal sectors, with some firm characteristics significantly predicting professional use of digital technologies. In addition, we find that there are both common and segment-specific levers for addressing digital inequalities between informal firms.</p>","PeriodicalId":47986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Development","volume":"36 2","pages":"1350-1380"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jid.3860","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139199575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Muhammad Mehedi Masud, Abu Hanifa Md. Noman, Rulia Akhtar, Sonia Kumari A/P Selvarajan, Abdullah Al-Mamun
{"title":"Does credit growth mitigate emission intensity in ASEAN countries?","authors":"Muhammad Mehedi Masud, Abu Hanifa Md. Noman, Rulia Akhtar, Sonia Kumari A/P Selvarajan, Abdullah Al-Mamun","doi":"10.1002/jid.3857","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jid.3857","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In empirical studies, the disparity between financial development and environmental quality has prompted us to examine the impact of credit growth on environmental quality in ASEAN countries. These countries have experienced phenomenal credit growth over the past three decades due to their adoption of financial liberalisation, integration and innovation. In this study, we investigated the role of credit growth on environmental quality while controlling for several macroeconomic variables, including regulatory quality, natural resources, foreign direct investment, globalisation and per capita gross domestic product growth. Using static models (ordinary least square [OLS], random effect model, Panel Corrected Standard Error and partial spatial cross correlation) and dynamic models (dynamic OLS, dynamic random effect and two-step system generalised methods of moments (GMM) on data spanning from 1984 to 2019, we observed a nonlinear association between credit growth and environmental quality. The findings suggest that credit growth may simultaneously have favourable and detrimental effects on environmental quality. High credit growth can lead to increased emissions and environmental degradation through the promotion of fossil fuel-driven energy consumption, production and distribution of economic resources. However, if the government promotes regulatory quality and encourages lenders to invest more in green technologies and renewable and sustainable energy sources, credit growth may contribute to improved environmental quality. These results carry important policy implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":47986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Development","volume":"36 2","pages":"1324-1349"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139214134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eliane Badaoui, Olivier Bargain, Prudence Kwenda, Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh
{"title":"Informality, self-employment and heterogeneous managerial ability: A model for developing countries","authors":"Eliane Badaoui, Olivier Bargain, Prudence Kwenda, Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh","doi":"10.1002/jid.3847","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jid.3847","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The view of informal employment as a last resort in the labour market has recently been challenged by numerous studies documenting the existence of a high degree of heterogeneity within the formal and informal sectors. In particular, informal self-employment/employment may be voluntary or forced. There is currently not much theoretical support for these observations. We develop a theoretical model of the labour market with both formal and informal firms and a distribution of managerial skills in the population. Consistent with existing empirical evidence, this setup reconciles the undesirable and productive forms of self-employment that coexist in the economy.</p>","PeriodicalId":47986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Development","volume":"36 2","pages":"1293-1323"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139219984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel Adu Ankrah, Bright Owusu Asante, Stephen Prah, Forster K. Boateng
{"title":"Impact of digital financial inclusion on the participation in farmer-based organisations, structured market and off-farm work in Ghana","authors":"Daniel Adu Ankrah, Bright Owusu Asante, Stephen Prah, Forster K. Boateng","doi":"10.1002/jid.3863","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jid.3863","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines the impact of mobile money account ownership on farmers' participation in farmer-based organisations (FBOs), structured market and off-farm work. Relying on recursive bivariate probit model, our results reveal that owning a mobile money account increases the likelihood of farmers' participating in an FBO, structured market and off-farm work by 15.4%, 33.3% and 37.5%, respectively. Furthermore, mobile money account ownership is influenced by socioeconomic and institutional factors as well as the presence of mobile money vendors within a community. Our finding calls for sustained efforts to deepen digital financial inclusion for increased participation in FBOs, structured market and off-farm work.</p>","PeriodicalId":47986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Development","volume":"36 2","pages":"1254-1273"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139249873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}