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
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24603