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Zambia was a middle-income country when it achieved independence from Great Britain in 1964. After decades of … international aid Zambia has become a low-income country, and its per capita GDP is only now returning to the levels it had reached … over forty years ago. While aid is far from the only variable at work in Zambia's development, its impact has been …
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Zambia was economically prosperous at independence (1964), due to the thriving copper industry. Zambia has the … economy. Zambia is one of the countries in the southern Africa sub-region faced with a food crisis attributed to a complex …
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developing countries and show, through a survey implemented in Moshi (Tanzania) about demand for sanitation, some methodological …
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developing countries, a consortium of institutions from France and Tanzania has been created in 2000. The proposition of the … consortium has been accepted; it included a research project on the improvement of the sanitation services in Moshi (Tanzania …
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transitions, we find that external debt constraints indebted countries to move up democracy scale but incite governments to …
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of democracy in his country during his tenure. This e ffect is shown to be independent from the leader's education level …, as well as from his profession. Moreover, it is mainly driven by countries with a poor initial level of democracy. These …
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Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases … reformist parties in the former socialist block lies in a deepening of democracy. …
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A large theoretical literature has identified the deficiencies of cooperatives and deduced they should disappear. However, the empirical literature has not confirmed a significantly lower level of efficiency for cooperatives. A survey of the empirical literature and new data on French...
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66 developing countries over the period 1990-2005, this paper provides econometric evidence that democracy matters for … insufficiently welfare minded. We found that high levels of democracy are specifically needed in natural resource rich countries to …
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element of human-sized organizations that were the first mutual or cooperative Caisses, is democracy running the risk to … disappearance of democracy inherent to the cooperative project, a more differentiating diagnosis is proposed, followed by an outline … of some working leads for a creative evolution of cooperative democracy. …
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