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Development at the border: policies and national integration in Côte d’Ivoire and its neighbors

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Date
2015
Dewey
Croissance et développement économiques
Sujet
Economic Geography; Borders; National Integration; Africa; Welfare
JEL code
O.O1.O12; R.R1.R12; P.P5.P52
Journal issue
The World Bank economic review
Volume
29
Number
1
Publication date
2015
Article pages
41-71
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wber/lht033
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/12067
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Cogneau, Denis
11609 Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine
11609 Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
Spielvogel, Gilles
11609 Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
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Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Abstract (EN)
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 ofneighboring countries. At the border of Ghana and at the end of the 1980s, large discontinuities aredetected for consumption, child stunting, and access to electricity and safe water. Border discontinuities in consumption can be explained by differences in cash crop policies (cocoa andcoffee). When these policies converged in the 1990s, the only differences that persisted were thosein rural facilities. In the North, cash crop (cotton) income again made a difference for consumptionand nutrition (the case of Mali). On the one hand, large differences in welfare can hold at the borders dividing African countries despite their assumed porosity. On the other hand, borderdiscontinuities seem to reflect the impact of reversible public policies rather than intangibleinstitutional traits.

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