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This paper explores the flow of illicit narcotics transiting West Africa. It is divided into four sections, providing … protection and to invest drug profits from West Africa, and finally, it provides concluding remarks that could inform future …
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against the scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for …, in Sub-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure … Africa (PIDA). Its success foreshadows an economic transformation that will potentially usher in an emergent Africa in the 21 …
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commensurate with the needs of their economic development.This article discusses how the WTO contributes to facilitating Africa …
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GDP per capita in the continent of Africa. -- stochastic processes ; poverty ; inequality ; wellbeing measurement …
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This paper proposes a multidimensional procedure for jointly assessing the absolute and relative pro-poorness of growth. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being...
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-Saharan and North Africa, as well as the economic and some social implications of those movements, are examined. Existing analyses …
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China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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Recent research suggests that the welfare gains that would result from removing restrictions on international migration are large. The long-run impact of a higher level of international migration on the global economy is potentially even larger if it triggers an increase in the global growth...
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