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field for the National Literacy Programme in Namibia (NLPN), and at a later stage to assign them to the tasks of selecting …
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Executive summary The aim of the Baseline Survey was to generate information on the characteristics of entrepreneurs and enterprises in the Khomas region. It is necessary to stress, that Khomas region is very different from the other regions where the survey was previously conducted since it is...
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Namibia does not represent a case of structural adjustment, that is, a kind of economic reform in a situation of crisis …. However, progress in the achievement of these remains limited. Namibia’s economic record since independence in 1990 compares … significantly raising per capita incomes - in fact, since 1994 per capita incomes have been stagnating. Independent Namibia …
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sub-Saharan Africa. By widening the scope from most- to least-developed transition economies, the study establishes the … institutions also influences economic growth and the ability of a country to attract trade and foreign direct investment … investors from rich countries, their governments need to focus on abolition of barriers to trade, investment and capital. The …
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Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed … for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different … evidence on sub-Saharan Africa it concludes that the resource curse theory fails to sufficiently explain why and how several …
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Agricultural productivity in 41 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1960 to 1999 is examined by estimating a semi …
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In most African economies, both agricultural production and the terms- of-trade are highly uncertain. This paper re-examines the implications of such uncertainty for the optimal mix of production and trade under alternative assumptions about international capital flows. The ultimate objective is...
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The World Bank’s Operational Policy on Economic Evaluation of Investment Operations requires that project evaluations …
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This paper shows how to shadow price partially traded goods following the standard rules of cost-benefit analysis, i.e. identifying the individuals affected, measuring their corresponding compensating variations, and aggregating those measures according to a distributional value judgement. The...
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In this paper the option value of waiting under scientific uncertainty will be derived using the difference between the geometric Brownian motion and the mean reverting process by applying contingent claim analysis. The results will be compared with those generated by either using a geometric...
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