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The success of Africa's exports, as well as its spatial development, depends on lowering transport costs. In this … Policy Brief, we address a number of pertinent questions on transport costs in Africa, such as 'what are transport costs …?', 'do transport costs matter for trade?', 'how important are transport costs in practice?', and 'why are Africa's transport …
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and 2005 the size, diversity and sophistication of industry in Africa have all declined. An industrialization strategy …
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Africa.s improved growth performance over the last 15 years provides an opportunity for the continent to transit from recovery to structural transformation. This paper reviews the evolution of development theory and practice, the role of agriculture there
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industry sector h …
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This paper chronicles the evolution of industry in Ghana over the post-independence era from an inward over …
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Long-run economic development in Ghana is potentially vulnerable to anthropogenic climate change given the country.s dependence on rainfed agriculture, hydropower, and unpaved rural roads. We use a computable general equilibrium model, informed by detaile
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This paper addresses the issue of poor data on Mozambican manufacturing firms. A new dataset (the merged manufacturing database) is merged from provincial industrial databases from each of Mozambique.s 11 provinces. The new dataset is assessed by comparin
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This paper argues that official development assistance (foreign aid) is partly responsible for the lack of structural change in Africa. Africa.s development partners have devoted too few resources and too little attention to two critical constraints to private investment, infrastructure and...
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