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Meet the economic gangster. He's the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City streets at rush hour because the cops can't touch him--he has diplomatic immunity. He's the Chinese smuggler who dodges tariffs by magically transforming frozen chickens into frozen turkeys. The dictator, the warlord, the unscrupulous bureaucrat who bilks the developing world of billions in aid. The calculating crook who views stealing and murder as just another part of his business strategy. And, in the wrong set of circumstances, he might just be you. In Economic Gangsters

Economic order --- Third World: economic development problems --- Public administration --- Political sociology --- Developing countries --- Corruption --- Political corruption --- Smuggling. --- 844.2 sociaaleconomische structuur --- 848 Geweld --- armoede --- delicten --- economische groei --- economische politiek --- inkomensverdeling --- ontwikkelingshulp --- ontwikkelingslanden --- welvaartseconomie --- 330.34 --- Contraband trade --- Rumrunning --- Crime --- Customs administration --- Boss rule --- Corruption (in politics) --- Graft in politics --- Malversation --- Political scandals --- Politics, Practical --- Misconduct in office --- Corrupt practices --- Ethics --- Economic aspects. --- Economische ontwikkeling. Regionale economische ontwikkeling --- -Political corruption --- -Smuggling --- 364.1323 --- Economic aspects --- -Electronic information resources --- E-books --- 330.34 Economische ontwikkeling. Regionale economische ontwikkeling --- Smuggling --- 858 Geweld --- Sociologie van de politiek --- Economische orde --- Derde Wereld: economische ontwikkelingsproblematiek --- Openbaar bestuur --- Ontwikkelingslanden --- Developing countries: economic development problems

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Miguel, Satyanath and Sergenti (2004) use rainfall variation as an instrument to show that economic growth is negatively related to civil conflict in sub-Saharan Africa. In the reduced form regression they find that higher rainfall is associated with less conflict. Ciccone (2010) claims that this conclusion is 'erroneous' and argues that higher rainfall levels are actually linked to more conflict. In this paper we show that the results in Ciccone's paper are based on incorrect STATA code, outdated conflict data, a weak first stage regression and a questionable application of the GMM estimator. Leaving aside these data and econometric issues, Ciccone's surprising results do not survive obvious robustness checks. We therefore conclude that Ciccone's main claims are largely incorrect and reconfirm the original result by Miguel, Satyanath and Sergenti (2004), finding that adverse economic growth shocks, driven by falling rainfall, increases the likelihood of civil conflict in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Improved health in low-income countries could considerably improve wellbeing and possibly promote economic growth. The last decade has seen a surge in field experiments designed to understand the barriers that households and governments face in investing in health and how these barriers can be overcome, and to assess the impacts of subsequent health gains. This chapter first discusses the methodological pitfalls that field experiments in the health sector are particularly susceptible to, then reviews the evidence that rigorous field experiments have generated so far. While the link from in utero and child health to later outcomes has increasingly been established, few experiments have estimated the impacts of health on contemporaneous productivity among adults, and few experiments have explored the potential for infrastructural programs to impact health outcomes. Many more studies have examined the determinants of individual health behavior, on the side of consumers as well as among providers of health products and services.

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