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The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural Socioeconomic Survey (ERSS) and the 2010/2011 Nigeria General Household Survey … productive. In Nigeria, we find evidence for spatial autocorrelation at the individual enterprise level but not at the community …
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domestic economy, but it will also affect the international trading markets. In addition, it will affect the West Africa region …
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nationalism and to have hostile relations with immigrants. Multiple equilibria are possible and better schooling may eliminate …
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Environmental federalism refers to the debate over the 'optimal' level of government at which to delegate environmental … literatures. By doing so, the goal is to limit the scope of the debate over environmental federalism moving forward, as well as …
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The potential failure of national industry agreements to take into account productivity levels of least productive regions has been considered as one of the causes of regional unemployment in European countries. Two solutions are generally proposed: the first, encouraged by the European...
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Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of transnational terror events in a country, while...
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In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form "nationhood," igniting the interest to understand and model identity. The complexity of identity formation, however, has been firm and ethnic and national identities have been deviating more and more. In this paper, we...
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There is data evidence that welfare has improved post democracy in Nigeria. However, the distribution or concentration …, across and within gender, post democracy in Nigeria is explored. I make use of simple econometric tools to test two null … in Nigeria. Second, there are no within gender disparities of the shift to democracy on income and returns to education …
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the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this …
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these claims at the micro level. In this study, I focus on Nigeria a country that holds 1/5 of Africa’s population. I use …In the last two decades, the social and economic benefits of formal education in Sub-Saharan Africa have been debated …. Anecdotal evidence points to low returns to education in Africa. Unfortunately, there is limited econometric evidence to support …
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