Louise Grenier, Andrew Mckay, Oliver Morrissey
Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade,
AID AND GROWTH: ACCOUNTING FOR TRANSMISSION MECHANISMS IN SUB-SAHARA AFRICA (2009)
Karuna Gomanee, Sourafel Girma, Oliver Morrissey
This paper is a contribution to the literature on aid and growth. Despite an extensive existing empirical literature in this area, studies have not paid much attention to the importance of...
Explaining Leakage of Public Funds* (2007)
Ritva Reinikka T, Jakob Svensson, Jeffrey Hammer, Phillip Keefer, Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel, ...
Using panel data from an unique survey of public primary schools in Uganda we assess the degree of leakage of public funds in education. The survey data reveal that on average, during the period...
Tough love or unconditional charity? (2007)
Bougheas, Spiros, Dasgupta, Indraneel, Morrissey, Oliver
Charitable giving increasingly requires recipients to undertake costly prior action. A common justification is that willingness to undertake costly actions signals greater productivity from...
Some Simple Analytics of the Trade and Welfare Effects of Economic Partnership Agreements (2005)
Milner, Chris, Morrissey, Oliver, McKay, Andrew
The Cotonou Agreement, successor to the Lome Convention, offers African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries preferential access to EU markets by establishing economic partnership agreements (EPAs)...
Some Simple Analytics of the Trade and Welfare Effects of Economic Partnership Agreements (2005)
Milner, Chris, Morrissey, Oliver, McKay, Andrew
The Cotonou Agreement, successor to the Lomé Convention, offers African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries preferential access to EU markets by establishing economic partnership agreements...
Some Simple Analytics of the Trade and Welfare Effects of Economic Partnership Agreements (2005)
Milner, Chris, Morrissey, Oliver, McKay, Andrew
The Cotonou Agreement, successor to the Lomé Convention, offers African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries preferential access to EU markets by establishing economic partnership agreements...
Some Simple Analytics of the Trade and Welfare Effects of Economic Partnership Agreements (2005)
Milner, Chris, Morrissey, Oliver, McKay, Andrew
The Cotonou Agreement, successor to the Lomé Convention, offers African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries preferential access to EU markets by establishing economic partnership agreements...
Some Simple Analytics of the Trade and Welfare Effects of Economic Partnership Agreements (2005)
Milner, Chris, Morrissey, Oliver, McKay, Andrew
The Cotonou Agreement, successor to the Lomé Convention, offers African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries preferential access to EU markets by establishing economic partnership agreements...
Some Simple Analytics of the Trade and Welfare Effects of Economic Partnership Agreements (2005)
Milner, Chris, Morrissey, Oliver, McKay, Andrew
The Cotonou Agreement, successor to the Lomé Convention, offers African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries preferential access to EU markets by establishing economic partnership agreements...
Do Workers in Africa Get a Wage Premium if Employed in Firms Owned by Foreigners? (2003)
Te Velde, Dirk Willem, Morrissey, Oliver
Do firms owned by foreigners pay higher wages than locally owned firms for apparently equivalent workers? Do such benefits accrue to all or only certain types of workers? This paper uses data on...
Inequality, trade liberalisation and growth (2002)
Morrissey, Oliver, Moyo, Jennifer, Milner, Chris
There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the relationship between income inequality and growth. We use the WIDER/UNDP World Income Inequality Database to investigate the effects of...
Case of Aid and Trade Relationships (2001)
Tim Lloyd, Oliver Morrissey, Robert Osei
the School of Economics at the University of Nottingham. It aims to promote research in all aspects of economic development and international trade on both a long term and a short term basis. To this...
British aid policy 1978 to 1989 : business lobbies and donor interests. (1991)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Bath, 1991.
Aggregate Supply Response in Tanzanian Agriculture
Andrew McKay, Oliver Morrissey, Charlotte Vaillant
Tanzania is among the many African countries that have engaged in agricultural liberalization since the mid-1980s, in the hope that reforms that introduce price incentives and efficient marketing...
Aggregate Supply Response in Tanzanian Agriculture.
McKay, Andrew, Morrissey, Oliver, Vaillant, Charlotte
Tanzania is among the many African countries that have engaged in agricultural liberalization since the mid-1980s, in the hope that reforms that introduce price incentives and efficient marketing...
Aid, Government Expenditure, and Aggregate Welfare
Gomanee, Karuna, Morrissey, Oliver, Mosley, Paul, Verschoor, Arjan
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND EXCHANGE RATES: A CASE STUDY OF U.S. FDI IN EMERGING MARKET COUNTRIES
Manop Udomkerdmongkol, Holger Görg, Oliver Morrissey
This paper investigates the impact of exchange rates on US Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)inflows to a sample of 16 emerging market countries using panel data for the period 1990-2002. Threevariables...
Evaluating the Concessionality of Tied Aid.
Morrissey, Oliver, White, Howard
The failure of aid to have a demonstrably positive impact on recipient growth is partly due to donor aid policies, in particular tying, which can have a number of negative effects on recipients. This...
Tax perceptions and preferences over tax structure in the united kingdom
Norman Gemmell, Oliver Morrissey, Abuzer Pinar
Do voters know their tax liabilities accurately or do they systematically misperceive them? Could such misperceptions influence voters' choices over alternative tax structures proposed by...
Estimating the Impact of Anti-dumping and Anti-cartel Actions Using Intervention Analysis.
Lloyd, Tim, Morrissey, Oliver, Reed, Geoffrey
Intervention analysis is proposed as a method for estimating the effects of antidumping actions in the presence of a domestic cartel. Data requirements and modeling effort compare favorably with...
Gemmell, Norman, Morrissey, Oliver, Pinar, Abuzer
Local tax reform in Britain in 1993 (reinstating a property tax) may have reversed some intended fiscal illusion reducing,and "accountability" improving, features of the poll tax (itself a reform...
Aid and the Public Sector in Pakistan: Evidence with Endogenous Aid
Franco-Rodriguez, Susana, Morrissey, Oliver, McGillivray, Mark
Distribution and Poverty Impacts of Tax Structure Reform in Developing Countries: How Little We Know
Norman Gemmell, Oliver Morrissey
The past two decades have witnessed widespread reforms of tax structures in developing countries. This article reviews available evidence on the effects of various taxes, and hence of tax structure...
Supply response in Ethiopia: accounting for technical inefficiency
Suleiman Abrar, Oliver Morrissey
Few empirical studies of supply response using the profit function have accounted for technical inefficiency. Using farm-level panel data from Ethiopia, this study examines the effect of...
Conditionality and Aid Effectiveness Re-evaluated
This paper evaluates aid by considering how effective aid has been in exerting leverage on policy choices. It is rather easy to demonstrate that if a country is unwilling to implement policy reforms,...
Conditionality and Fragility in Long-Term Financial Contracts
Spiros Bougheas,, Indraneel Dasgupta,, Oliver Morrissey
Lenders condition future loans on some index of past performance. Typically, banks condition future loans on repayments of earlier obligations while international organizations condition future loans...
Trade Liberalisation is Good for You if You are Rich
Charles Ackah,, Oliver Morrissey
This paper investigates the relationship between trade policy and growth using a dynamic panel regression model with GMM estimates for data on 44 developing countries over 1980-1999. Trade policy is...
Foreign Aid, Investment and Economic Growth in Kenya: a Time Series Approach
Daniel M'Amanja,, Oliver Morrissey
Most of the literature on determinants of economic growth in developing countries is basedon cross-country analysis and thus only yields some patterns that hold on average. The aim of this paper is...
Trade Openness, Trade Costs and Growth: Why Sub-Saharan Africa Performs Poorly
Jennifer Mbabazi,, Chris Milner,, Oliver Morrissey
The principal aim of this paper is to identify, in the context of the relationship between openness and growth, factors that can account for the poor growth performance of sub-Saharan African (SSA)...
Aid and the Public Sector in Pakistan: Evidence with Endogenous Aid
Susana Franco-Rodriguez,, Mark McGillivray,, Oliver Morrissey
The Journal of Development Studies
Howard White, Stuart Corbridge, Oliver Morrissey
Papers published in The Journal of Development Studies
Structural Adjustment and Liberalisation in Developing Countries: What Lessons Have We Learned?
Greenaway, David, Morrissey, Oliver
In the context of the literature on the sequencing of reform, this paper reviews the evidence of a range of studies and draws out the lessons and implications for developing economies contemplating...
Foreign Direct Investment: Flows, Volatility, and the Impact on Growth
Robert Lensink, Oliver Morrissey
This paper contributes to the literature on FDI and economic growth. We deviate from previous studies by introducing measures of the volatility of FDI inflows. As introduced into the model, these are...
Investment and Sources of Investment Finance in Developing Countries
Holger Görg, Oliver Morrissey, Manop Udomkerdmongkol
This paper uses annual aggregate data for 36 low or middle income countries covering the period 1995-2001 to test the responsiveness of investment to the sources of finance under (un)favourable...
A statistical approach to identifying poorly performing countries
Edward Anderson, Oliver Morrissey
This paper asks whether it is possible to identify, using purely statistical criteria on widely available quantitative data, a set of developing countries that can be classified as poor performers....
Tough love or unconditional charity?
Spiros Bougheas, Indraneel Dasgupta, Oliver Morrissey
Charitable giving increasingly requires recipients to undertake costly prior action. A common justification is that willingness to undertake costly actions signals greater productivity from...
Some Simple Analytics of the Trade and Welfare Effects of Economic Partnership Agreements
Chris Milner, Oliver Morrissey, Andrew McKay
The Cotonou Agreement, successor to the Lomé Convention, offers African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries preferential access to EU markets by establishing economic partnership agreements...
African Trade Policy in the 1990s: Political Economy or Technocratic Reforms?
Chris Jones, Oliver Morrissey, Doug Nelson
The majority of African countries implemented import liberalisation in the 1990s. This paper explores factors that may explain the pattern of protection and of tariff reform. We consider political...
Are Imports in Africa Responsive to Tariff Reductions?
In the 1980’s and 1990’s many African countries liberalised their trade policy, although since the mid 1990s there are countries that did not alter tariffs. This allows us to analyse the effects...
Trade Facilitation in Developing Countries
Chris Milner, Oliver Morrissey, Evious Zgovu
Measures to actively facilitate trade are increasingly seen as essential to assist developing countries in expanding trade and benefiting from globalisation. Although often viewed as narrowly...
Investment Provisions in Regional Integration Agreements for Developing Countries
Investment is a major determinant of economic growth, both in reference to the level of the capital stock and its productivity, but has been deficient in poor developing countries. A particular...
Competition Policy and Public Procurement in Developing Countries
Rod Falvey, Annamaria La Chimia, Oliver Morrissey, Evious Zgovu
Measures to support Competition Policy and enhance the efficiency of Public Procurement can enhance the impact of regional integration agreements. The first part addresses Competition Policy -...
Missed Opportunities: The WTO Trade Policy Review for the East African Community
The East African Community (EAC), comprising Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, came into force on 7 July 2000 with a Common External Tariff (CET) established in January 2005. This Trade Policy Review (TPR)...
Modelling the Fiscal Effects of Aid: An Impulse Response Approach for Ghana
Morrissey, Oliver, Osei, Robert, Lloyd, Tim
An important feature of aid to developing countries is that it is given to the government. As a result aid has the potential to affect budgetary behaviour. Although the (albeit limited) aid-growth...
Aid and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Accounting for Transmission Mechanisms
Gomanee, Karuna, Girma, Sourafel, Morrissey, Oliver
aid effectiveness, aid, growth, Sub-Saharan Africa
The Fiscal Effects of Aid in Ghana
Osei, Robert, Morrissey, Oliver, Lloyd, Tim
aid, fungibility, fiscal response, impulse response
Making Debt Relief Conditionality Pro-Poor
Aid conditionality, HIPC, Debt relief, East Africa
aid effectiveness, conditionality
Spatial Inequality for Manufacturing Wages in Five African Countries
Te Velde, Dirk Willem, Morrissey, Oliver
wage inequality, earnings function, location, Africa
Are Inequality and Trade Liberalization Influences on Growth and Poverty?
Mbabazi, Jennifer, Morrissey, Oliver, Milner, Chris
Trade, Inequality, Growth, Poverty, Developing countries
ATP is dead: long live mixed credits
The principal objective of international development policy as implied by the title of the 1997 White Paper on International Development: Eliminating World Poverty, is to improve the quality of life...
Aid fungibility in Assessing Aid: red herring or true concern?
Mark McGillivray, Oliver Morrissey
This paper critically reviews Assessing Aid (World Bank, 1998), focussing on Chapter 3, which looks at public sector aspects of aid, specifically the issue of aid fungibility. Whilst Assessing Aid's...
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The economic potential of tourism in Tanzania
Josaphat Kweka, Oliver Morrissey, Adam Blake
For sub-Saharan African countries with few evident opportunities to diversify export earnings away from primary commodities, tourism has emerged as an option to contribute to economic growth. This...
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Aggregate agricultural supply response in Ethiopia: a farm-level analysis
Suleiman Abrar, Oliver Morrissey, Tony Rayner
This study examines the responsiveness of peasant farmers in Ethiopia to price and non-price factors. Quadratic production and restricted profit functions are estimated using farm-level survey data...
Aid, public spending and human welfare: evidence from quantile regressions
Karuna Gomanee, Sourafel Girma, Oliver Morrissey
Does aid contribute to human development other than by increasing growth? In doing so, is aid more or less effective in poorer countries (those with low levels of aggregate welfare)? This paper...
The fiscal effects of aid in Ghana
Robert Osei, Oliver Morrissey, Tim Lloyd
An important feature of aid to developing countries is that it is given to the government. As a result, aid should be expected to affect fiscal behaviour, although theory and existing evidence is...
Aid and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: accounting for transmission mechanisms
Karuna Gomanee, Sourafel Girma, Oliver Morrissey
This paper is a contribution to the literature on aid and growth. Despite an extensive empirical literature in this area, existing studies have not addressed directly the mechanisms via which aid...
CONDITIONALITY WHEN DONOR AND RECIPIENT PREFERENCES VARY
HOWARD WHITE, OLIVER MORRISSEY
An extensive literature evaluates the content of conditionality, but the design of conditionality has received less attention. This paper presents a general framework of conditionality, which allows...
POLICY ARENA: MICRO-MACRO LINKAGES: AN ECONOMIST'S PERSPECTIVE
This paper addresses three aspects of the micro-macro linkage which are of particular interest to economists. First, is the issue of how changes in the macro environment are transmitted to and impact...
Exchange Rates and Outward Foreign Direct Investment: US FDI in Emerging Economies
Udomkerdmongkol, Manop, Morrissey, Oliver, Gorg, Holger
The paper investigates the impact of exchange rates on US foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to a sample of 16 emerging market countries using annual panel data for the period 1990-2002. Three...
Political Regime, Private Investment, and Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries
Udomkerdmongkol, Manop, Morrissey, Oliver
This paper uses annual aggregate data for 36 low or middle income countries covering the period 1995-2001 to investigate the effect of FDI on private investment. It also explores if the relationship...
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Tanzania
Morrissey, Oliver, Leyaro, Vincent
Distorted incentives, agricultural and trade policy reforms, national agricultural development, Agricultural and Food Policy, International Relations/Trade, F13, F14, Q17, Q18,
The Long-Run Effect of Aid on Domestic Output
Dierk Herzer, Oliver Morrissey
This paper makes two main contributions. First, we examine the long-run effect of foreign aid on domestic output for 59 developing countries using heterogeneous panel cointegration techniques to...
Exchange Rates and Outward Foreign Direct Investment: US FDI in Emerging Economies
Manop Udomkerdmongkol, Oliver Morrissey, Holger Görg
This paper investigates the effect of exchange rates on US foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to a sample of 16 emerging market countries using annual panel data for the period 1990-2002. Three...
Repayment versus Investment Conditions and Exclusivity in Lending Contracts
Bougheas, Spiros, Dasgupta, Indraneel, Morrissey, Oliver
Lenders condition future loans on some index of past performance. Typically, banks condition future loans on repayments of earlier obligations whilst international organizations (official lenders)...