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Meditating on "Slow Growth in Africa" - New Evidence or Just Ol' Stuff?

Amavilah, V. Heinrich - EconWPA - 2003

Economic Perspectives (Summer, 1999: 3-114) published a collection of symposium papers on “Slow Growth in Africa”. Clearly the … collection added volume to Africa’s literature on the subject. However, the different opinions the papers expressed did little to … enhance current understanding of Africa’s economic performance, mainly because the papers paint very different pictures of the …

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Investing in Hope: AIDS, Life Expectancy, and Human Capital Accumulation

Huang, Rui; Fulginiti, Lilyan E.; Peterson, E. Wesley - EconWPA - 2005

disease, on human capital investment decisions and income growth. This research is particularly relevant to Sub-Saharan Africa …

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Determinants of Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Livelihood Strategies in Rural Communities: Evidence from Eastern Nigeria

Adi, A. Bongo - EconWPA - 2005

Using primary survey data from two agro-ecologically distinct rural communities in eastern Nigeria, this paper examines the determinants of livelihood diversification away from agriculture as well as the manner in which different agro-ecological determinants affect such diversification. The...

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Generalized Knowledge Index: The Production, and Imputed Gross Future and Present Values of Doctoral Dissertations across Some African Countries

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S. - EconWPA - 2004

The notion that lack of knowledge undermines the economic performance of African countries is deeply and widely held to be true. Yet evidence for the basis of that truth is few and far in-between. This paper first describes a production function approach to the creation of knowledge of African...

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Are there Regional Variations in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment in South Africa?

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003

Are certain groups of unemployed individuals hurt less by unemployment than others? This paper is an attempt to test the hypothesis that non- pecuniary costs of unemployment may vary between societies with different unemployment rates. Using cross-sectional data from the SALDRU93 survey, we show...

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Is the Structure of Happiness Equations the Same in Poor and Rich Countries? The Case of South Africa.

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003

similar structure and is U-shaped in age in South Africa as in developed countries. Well-being rises with income. Unemployment …

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Education, incomes, poverty and inequality in Ghana in the 1990s

Teal, Francis - EconWPA - 2004

Three issues are addressed in this paper. First, we use both household and macro data to establish how fast per capita consumption and incomes grew in Ghana in the 1990s. Second, we ask how much of the rise in incomes was due to rises in the level of human capital and how much reflected...

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Unhappiness and Crime: Evidence from South Africa

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003

from the OHS97 survey of South Africa, we show that victims report significantly lower well-being than the non …

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Structural Problems in Namibia's Sectoral and Sub-Sectoral Performance During the 1968-1992 Years

Amavilah, V. Heinrich S. - EconWPA - 2003

A flexible production function analysis is addressed to Namibia's data for the 1968-1992 period to test for evidence of structural problems in sectoral and sub-sectoral performance. The analysis found the primary sector to be characterized by constant returns to scale through the entire 25...

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Diversity Indices of Technical Capability of 14 African Countries

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - EconWPA - 2005

I outline four, and calculate two, broad indices of the diversity of technical capability of 14 African countries based on nine common descriptors of technical capability. I find technical capability to be heterogenous, and conclude that performance policies that ignore technical diversity of...

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