George R.G. Clarkes Papers

This site contains links to several unpublished working papers. Published papers (see my cv) can be obtained by either e-mailing your address to George or by going to the original journal/book.

Older working paper versions of many published and unpublished papers are on the SSRN website.

Please note that all these papers reflect the views and opinions of  the respective authors.  All errors and omissions are those of the respective authors.  The papers do not necessarily represent the views of any of the institutions that I, or any of my co-authors, are associated with.  In addition to this general disclaimer, this disclaimer applies to all papers posted on this website.  More specific disclaimers are attached to the individual papers. 

World Development Report

Although I contributed to several chapter, I was the main author for Chapter 5: Regulation and Taxation.

Working Papers

An Assessment of the Investment Climate in South Africa (2007). With James Habyarimana, Michael Ingram, David Kaplan, and Vijaya Ramachandran.

Why Isn't South Africa growing faster? Microeconomic Evidence From a Firm Survey. (2007). With James Habyarimana, Michael Ingram, David Kaplan, and Vijaya Ramachandran. This paper is forthcoming in Journal of International Development

Access to Credit and Firm Ownership in South Africa (2006). With Robert Cull.

Do Remittances Act Like Insurance? Evidence From a Natural Disaster in Jamaica (2003). With Scott Wallsten.

Beyond tariffs and quotas : why don't African manufacturers export more? (2005).

Do government policies that promote competition encourage or discourage new product and process development in low and middle-income countries?" (2005).

Data

New Tools for Studying Network Industry Reforms in Developing Countries: The Telecommunications and Electricity Regulation Database With Luke Haggarty, George Clarke, Rosario Kaneshiro, Roger Noll, Mary M. Shirley, Scott Wallsten, and Lixin Colin Xu (2004)

Note: Data from this paper is available here for telecom and here for electricity

"New Tools and New Tests in Comparative Political Economy: The Database of Political Institutions. (2000).  With Thorsten Beck,  Alberto Groff, Philip Keefer, and Patrick Walsh.  World Bank Policy Research Paper #2283, Washington DC.  

Note: This paper describes a new cross-country database of political variables.  The data are available by E-mailing Paulina Sintim-Aboagye (psintimaboagye @worldbank.org) or by going to http://www.grgclarke.com. A much shortened version of this paper is in the World Bank Economic Review 15(2), April 2001.

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