Outputs (16)

Parental expectations and school enrolment decisions: Evidence from rural Ghana (2015)
Journal Article
Ahiakpor, F., & Swaray, R. (2015). Parental expectations and school enrolment decisions: Evidence from rural Ghana. Review of development economics, 19(1), 132-142. https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.12122

We use field data to investigate factors which influence parents’ decision to enrol children in schools in rural Ghana. The empirical results identified a host of socio-economic and household-level factors including remittances parents expect from in... Read More about Parental expectations and school enrolment decisions: Evidence from rural Ghana.

Market reforms and commodity price volatility: the case of East African Coffee Market (2013)
Journal Article
Lukanima, B., & Swaray, R. (2014). Market reforms and commodity price volatility: the case of East African Coffee Market. The World economy, 37(8), 1152-1185. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12124

The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of commodity market reforms on producer price volatility using evidence from the East African coffee market. The results, based on time-varying volatility models and key summary statistics, show that co... Read More about Market reforms and commodity price volatility: the case of East African Coffee Market.

Commodity buffer stock redux: the role of International Cocoa Organization in prices and incomes (2011)
Journal Article
Swaray, R. (2011). Commodity buffer stock redux: the role of International Cocoa Organization in prices and incomes. Journal of policy modeling, 33(3), 361-369. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2011.03.002

This paper utilizes linear demand and supply models, with additive independent shocks, to derive producer price and income variances of a typical commodity during and after a buffer stock control. It proceeds to use the models to evaluate Internation... Read More about Commodity buffer stock redux: the role of International Cocoa Organization in prices and incomes.

An evaluation of a group project designed to reduce free-riding and promote active learning (2011)
Journal Article
Swaray, R. (2012). An evaluation of a group project designed to reduce free-riding and promote active learning. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 37(3), 285-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2010.531246

New Labour legacy: comparing the Labour governments of Blair and Brown to Labour governments since 1945 (2010)
Journal Article
Mullard, M., & Swaray, R. (2010). New Labour legacy: comparing the Labour governments of Blair and Brown to Labour governments since 1945. The Political quarterly, 81(4), 511-521. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-923x.2010.02131.x

The election of the Conservative-Liberal coalition in May 2010 provides the opportunity to start to map out the record of the Labour governments between 1997 and 2010. This paper deals with the specific question how the Brown/Blair governments perfor... Read More about New Labour legacy: comparing the Labour governments of Blair and Brown to Labour governments since 1945.

The politics of public expenditure from Thatcher to Blair (2006)
Journal Article
Mullard, M., & Swaray, R. (2006). The politics of public expenditure from Thatcher to Blair. Policy and Politics, 34(3), 495-515. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557306777695343

The central concerns of this study are twofold: first, to analyse the nature of the politics of public expenditure under both the Thatcher and Blair governments and to ask whether changes in government did make a difference. Second, to deal with the... Read More about The politics of public expenditure from Thatcher to Blair.