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Policing reforms and economic development in African states: Understanding the linkages: empowering change

Marenin, Otwin - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

The notion that economic development in African states requires minimal levels of security has become widely accepted in the international development community. Reforming non-functioning policing systems is an important step toward achieving security, ye

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Aid and Rent-Driven Growth: Mauritania, Kenya and Mozambique Compared

Auty, Richard M. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

This paper conceptualises foreign aid as a geopolitical form of rent in order to help distinguish the conditions under which aid is detrimental to sustained economic recovery from those where it is beneficial. Foreign aid shares with natural resource rent and contrived (i.e., government...

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Are Biofuels Good for African Development? An Analytical Framework with Evidence from Mozambique and Tanzania

Arndt, Channing; Msangi, Siwa; Thurlow, James - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their …

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The practice of industrial policy . Lessons for Africa: Case studies of decentralized co-ordination in China

Dinh, Hinh T. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

This paper draws on both successful and failing cases of industrialization in China to analyse the role of local …

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.Ground-truthing. Chinese development finance in Africa: Field evidence from South Africa and Uganda

Muchapondwa, Edwin; Nielson, Daniel; Parks, Bradley; … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

A new methodology, Tracking Under-Reported Financial Flows (TUFF), allows us to systematically gather open-source information.e.g. news reports, case studies, project inventories from embassy websites, and grant and loan data published by recipient govern

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China-Africa co-operation in structural transformation: Ideas, opportunities, and finances

Lin, Justin Yifu; Wang, Yan - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

This paper examines China and Africa co-operation from the angle of structural transformation as a major driver of … growth and job creation. Being a bit ahead in the structural transformation process, China can provide ideas, tacit knowledge …

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Understanding Chinese and Western development finance in Uganda, South Africa, and Zimbabwe

Muchapondwa, Edwin; Mukanjari, Samson - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

China.s importance as a major donor outside the traditional Western donors has been increasing and this has helped to …

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Approaching a Triumphal Span: How Far Is China Towards its Lewisian Turning Point?

Cai, Fang - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008

With the aid of an analytical framework of the Lewis model revised to reflect the experience of China, this paper … China?s growth as achieved during the course of economic reform and the opening-up of the country: the exploitation of the … the approaching turning point in China?s economic development and examines a host of challenges facing the country in …

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High-Growth Entrepreneurial Firms in Africa: A Quantile Regression Approach

Goedhuys, Micheline; Sleuwaegen, Leo - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

This paper studies the growth performance of a large set of entrepreneurial firms in ten manufacturing sectors of eleven Sub-Saharan African countries. The focus of the paper is on identifying those entrepreneurs. attributes and firm characteristics that tend to generate a significant number of...

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Entrepreneurship and Income Inequality in Southern Ethiopia

Kimhi, Ayal - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

This paper uses inequality decomposition techniques in order to analyse the consequences of entrepreneurial activities to household income inequality in southern Ethiopia. A uniform increase in entrepreneurial income reduces per capita household income inequality. This implies that encouraging...

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