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This paper summarises research on aid allocation and effectiveness, highlighting the current findings of recent research on aid allocation to fragile states. Fragile states are defined by the donor community as those with either critically poor policies or poorly performing institutions, or...
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The structure of the Nigerian economy is typical of an underdeveloped country. The primary sector, in particular, the oil and gas sector, dominates the gross domestic product accounting for over 95 per cent of export earnings and about 85 per cent of gove
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productivity growth is accounted for by the deepening process of financial development. Towards this end, an appropriate … measurement of financial depth is constructed and then included as a determinant of productivity growth. It finds that a … significant and positive nexus exists between financial deepening and productivity growth. Given the divergent pattern of …
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In 1994-97 Poland has recorded an outstanding economic performance in terms of GDP growth, simultaneous reduction of … inflation and unemployment, fiscal balance, zloty real revaluation, capacity restructuring, private sector growth and …
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approach is also employed to rigorously examine the poverty-growth-inequality triangle. Finally, various simple but useful and …
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The current paper demonstrates a dichotomy of the growth response to changes in the barter terms of trade, employing as …
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they have played significant roles in the region’s slow and episodic economic growth. Results from cross …-country regressions covering 31 Sub-Saharan African countries suggest that growth in Africa is not simply a question of capital … growth of African economies does not depend so much on their ability to innovate, but rather on their capacity to absorb and …
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Recent research regarding property rights and economic development often treats property rights security in a country as homogeneous, although protecting the private entitlements of some can entail preventing others from claiming and controlling those same resources. This one-dimensional...
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Africa should industrialize. Without structural change it cannot sustain recent growth. Economies with more diverse and …
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stability; foreseethe impacts of macroeconomic policieson developing-country growth; increaseboth market access and capacity …
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