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DEVELOPMENT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CHALLENGE FACING THE HUMAN RACE BUT THE PROCESSES DRIVING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ARE BY NO MEANS FULLY UNDERSTOOD. HOWEVER, THE CORE CHALLENGE FOR DEVELOPMENT IS TO ENSURE PRODUCTIVE WORK AND A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD. THIS CHALLENGE...
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The international goal for rich countries to devote 0.7% of their national income to development assistance has become a cause célèbre for aid activists and has been accepted in many official quarters as the legitimate target for aid budgets. The origins of the target, however, raise serious...
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Review of 'The End of Poverty' by Jeffrey Sachs
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Raising school enrollment, like economic development in general, takes a long time. This is partly because, as a mountain of empirical evidence now shows, economic conditions and slowly-changing parental education levels determine children's school enrollment to a greater degree than education...
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-Saharan) Africa and its (past and present) problems. Sub-Saharan Africa is the region which has the greatest percentage of its …
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This paper demonstrates that the delivery of hardware inputs to Ghana’s basic education system – building classrooms and supplying textbooks – has had a substantial impact on higher enrollments and better learning outcomes. The Bank’s support for school building has been a major factor...
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This paper attempts to shed light on the efficiency/effectiveness issues of informal financial markets and the pattern of portfolio allocation shift in response to change in interest rate, in the process of financial liberalization. The two issues have been both controversial and hotly debated...
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Privatization became a central element of economic reforms in most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa during the 1990s … impact of privatization in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1991 to 2002 in the light of recent developments, and to derive some …
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Can Africa's current state of under-development be partially attributed to the large trade in slaves that occurred … Africa between 1400 and 1913. I find the number of slaves exported from a country to be an important determinant of economic …
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the WTO for Africa using a framework that explicitly incorporates issues of concern to the region, such as preference … on economic welfare and specialisation in Africa. In the static version of the GTAP model, the study finds that full … African region. Sub-Saharan Africa and, to a lesser extent, Southern Africa, are vulnerable to partial trade reforms as they …
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