Ending Africa's Poverty Trap

By Jeffrey D. Sachs, J. McArthur, G. Schmidt-Traub, M. Kruk, Chandrika Bahadur, Michael Faye, G. McCord. 2004

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Subfields: Development, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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From Recipients to Donors: Emerging Powers and the Changing Development Landscape (2013, background): “In fact, Africa had a negative GNI/Capita from 1980 to 2000 (Sachs et al., 2004).”
The African Green Revolution moves forward (2009, background): “A temporary investment over a period of a few years can enable these populations to permanently escape from the poverty trap ( Sachs et al. 2004; Sachs 2005).”
Linkages between Land Management, Land Degradation, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Uganda (2008, background): “…and ideological debates and nuances , it seems clear that land degradation is a major problem confronting many (but not all) farmers in SSA, contributing to the problems of low agricultural productivity and poverty (Chen and Ravallion 2000; Dorward et al. 2004; Sachs et al. 2004; Lufumpa 2005).”
The urban transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: implications for economic growth and poverty reduction (2006, background): “Compared to the rest of the developing world average, tropical Africa also has less of its population within 100 km of a coast (25 versus 66 percent), greatly reducing accessibility, and it has almost twice Asia’s share of population living at low density, which implies high costs for delivering ser”
Economics Versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice (2013, background): “The third justifi cation recognizes that political economy matters, but maintains that “good economics is good politics,” meaning that good economic policies necessarily relax political constraints (for examples, Boycko, Shleifer, and Vishny 1995; Banerjee and Dufl o 2011, in particular, p. 261; Sac”
Does Foreign Aid Help (2006, methodology): “Recently Sachs et al. (2004) have proposed a very large increase in foreign aid to overcome an assumed “poverty trap” that affects developing countries.”
National innovation systems, capabilities and economic development (2008, methodology): “…et al., 2002; Alesina et al., 2003; Bloom at al., 2003; Fearon, 2003; Gallup et al., 1999; Masters and McMillan, 2003; Sachs and Warner, 2001; Sachs et al., 2004), the following thirteen variables were selected: longitude of country centroid, latitude of country centroid, log of surface…”
Are External Shocks Responsible for the Instability of Output in Low-Income Countries? (2005, background): “Much has been recently discussed on academic and policy circles about the adequacy of the level of aid to low-income countries and its effectiveness (see for example, Burnside and Dollar, 2000; Sachs et al., 2004; Easterly et al., 2004).”
Too much of a good thing? On the growth effects of the EU's regional policy (2012, background): “For instance, this would be the case if the marginal product of capital were extremely low at too small levels of infrastructure or human capital (see Sachs et al., 2004).”
The impact of foreign aid on economic growth in ECOWAS countries: A simultaneous-equation model (2013, neutral): “Subsequently, many of these countries have relied and obtained various forms of foreign aid.”
Finance for agriculture or agriculture for finance (2015, background): “In developing countries, private financial actors are still reluctant to provide credit to farmers, although there is encouragement from states for them to do so (Sachs et al. 2004; Dercon 2005; Barnett, Barrett and Skees 2008).”