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Trade, Regulations, and Growth
Bolaky, Bineswaree; Freund, Caroline - 2013
Trade does not stimulate growth in economies with excessive business and labor regulations. The authors examine the effect of openness on growth using cross-country regressions in both levels and changes. Results from the levels regressions imply that increased openness is associated with a...
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The Contribution of African Women to Economic Growth and Development : Historical Perspectives and Policy Implications, Part I, The Pre-colonial and Colonial Periods
Akyeampong, Emmanuel; Fofack, Hippolyte - 2012
nature and operation of the colonial economy and the instrumentality of customary law. The sequel to this paper focuses on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552158
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The Contribution of African Women to Economic Growth and Development in Post-Colonial Africa : Historical Perspectives and Policy Implications
Akyeampong, Emmanuel; Fofack, Hippolyte - 2013
importance of the informal economy in female economic activity. The first axis the paper studies is whether reducing educational …. Women's economic activities in the informal economy largely represent the commercialization of domestic skills and … dependence on social networks. The shunting of female production to the informal sector in the male-dominated colonial economy is …
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