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) primary schooling broadly mitigates conflicts in Africa. However, in environments with high natural resource rents, it could … Africa. There is also evidence that urbanization potentially drives conflicts in Africa. However, although secondary …, in South Africa), governments should strive to foster tertiary education in order to reduce conflict. Second, where …
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Despite recent improvements in economic performance, undernutrition rates in Africa appear to have improved much less … growth and reductions of child undernutrition in Africa. We do this by pooling all DHS surveys for African countries, control …
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Given that challenges facing sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries on the issue of socioeconomic development have been identified as critical to strengthening the inherent link between governance and socioeconomic conditions, this study examines the interconnections between governance and SSA...
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Die Zahl der Covid-19-Fälle und der damit verbundenen Todesfälle in Afrika wird in den offiziellen Daten erheblich …, dass die Meldelücke im Vergleich zu anderen Weltregionen besonders groß ist, Afrika gleichwohl immer noch relativ gut … abschneidet. Die Autoren stellen fest, dass der Rückgang der wirtschaftlichen Aktivität in Afrika im Jahr 2020 zwar weniger stark …
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We revisit the effect of long run income growth on population fertility in some of the poorest countries in the world. Causal inference is enabled through proxying income windfalls by oil price shocks in oil rich versus oil poor provinces. Using various fertility measures as outcomes, we find...
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This paper forwards the view that some aspects of African culture enhance economic development on the continent while other aspects tend to constrain development. By drawing on the extant literature on culture and development, the paper discusses the manner in which economic activities are...
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Arbitrarily designed borders have been identified by a recent literature as an important reason why sub-Saharan Africa … luminosity) by tracking provincial–level border changes in Africa during 1992-2013 with GIS techniques. Difference …
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-Saharan Africa remains one of the least developed regions on the globe. Accordingly, administrative border reforms may be a way to … local economic development (proxied by nighttime luminosity) by tracking state-level border changes in Africa during 1992 …
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