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of health-worker crisis in Africa owing to emigration, lack of relevant data has made the subject matter empirically void … liberalization play-out in the fight against health-worker crisis when existing emigration levels matter? Despite the acute concern …, blanket emigration-control policies are unlikely to succeed equally across countries with different levels of emigration. Thus …
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of the consequences of the recent surge of migrants into Europe. We argue that: (i) the concern about loss of Christian … citizens do go to Church in contemporary Europe; (ii) the threat to European liberal institutions is falsifiable and … fundamentalism and (iv) the concern about social security burden is relevant only in the short-term because of Europe's ageing …
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factors that compel youth irregular migration in sub-Saharan Africa would be deterred. Social implications - The fight against … initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa and rationale for demands for social projects by host communities. It concludes that business …
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persistence in homicides is sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), followed by Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and then … by Europe & Central Asia (ECA). In order to increase room for policy implications, the dataset is decomposed into income …
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Purpose - The study extends the debate on finance versus institutions in the promotion of investment documented by Acemoglu and Johnson (2005), Ali (2013) and Asongu (2014). We assess the effects of various components of governance on private investment, notably: political, economic and...
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This study complements existing literature by investigating how investment-driven finance affects inequality in Africa …
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four economic and monetary regions in Africa for the period 1980 to 2008. Banking system and financial system efficiencies …
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This study examines conditional financial development from information sharing in 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011, using contemporary and non-contemporary quantile regressions (QR) which enable the assessment of the effect of information sharing throughout the conditional...
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The paper verifies the Azzimonti et al. (2014) conclusions on a sample of 53 African countries for the period 1996-2008. Authors of the underlying study have established theoretical underpinnings for a negative nexus between rising public debt and inequality in OECD nations. We assess the...
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The contribution of African researchers to knowledge by means of scientific publications is low compared to other regions of the world. This paper presents an argument in favour of PhD by Publication as a tool for innovation and technology transfer. Building on the literature on the key role of...
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