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. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least developed of any continent after Antarctica. Yet, Africa is rich in natural … system is based on a consensus of values among its members while every society is at every point subject to processes of … some aspect of this environment are imperative. This paper therefore argues that GOD has created man and African society …
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This article provides an overview of the recent literature relevant to the study of the relation between economics and religion. The paper also appeals to the critical review on the implications of religious markets and church-state relation. The study argues that economic development depress...
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Zimbabwean villagers of distinct background have resettled in government organized land reforms for more than three decades. Against this backdrop, I assess the level of social cohesion in some of the newly established communities by estimating average preferences for fairness in a structural...
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. Eritrea is a newly born nation in Africa and is striving hard to develop its higher education. An attempt is made in this …
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In this paper we use a behavioural approach to studying household consumption behaviour in Malawi. In particular we are interested to know whether households use mental accounting when consuming different categories of good. It is useful for assessing the impact of remittances on household...
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the use of solar photovoltaic (PV) for energy poverty reduction in rural and peri-urban areas of Africa, there is …
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Can part of Africa’s current underdevelopment be explained by its slave trades? To explore this question, I use data … exported from each country during Africa’s slave trades. I find a robust negative relationship between the number of slaves …
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This paper uses 1998 household level data from urban Malawi to look at the impact on consumption patterns of the share of total household income accruing to different individuals within the household. Specifically, male and female income shares and other factors which may influence...
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This essay has explored the validity of Marxist dependency theories in the context of the emerging China-Africa trade … patterns, this discussion has shown that the China-Africa economic links represent a distinct south-south dialectic occurring … the idea that China’s involvement in Africa is of a conventional center-periphery type; which suggests the existence of …
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'brain drain' from Africa even more, while mil-lions of unskilled irregular migrants compete with the growing army of …
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