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Are there contemporary development effects of African resistance to European domination? This question is the primary issue addressed by this inquiry. We establish that African resistance has had adverse effects on post-colonial African development and discuss possible channels of such...
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The literature has not sufficiently engaged in the emergence and expansion of the phenomenon of slave trade. This article estimates whether or not slave trade affects human trafficking using an Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) with standard errors that are consistent with heteroscedasticity. The...
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This article examines the role of cognitive ability or intelligence on slave expor ts from Africa. We test a hypothesis … slave exports from Africa probably due to comparatively better capacities to organise, corporate, oversee and confront slave …
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One of the most disturbing contemporary episodes in human history that has been decried globally is the recent Libyan experience of slave trade, where migrants captured end-up being sold as slaves. We contribute to the understanding of this phenomenon by investigating the role of cognitive human...
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The literature has not sufficiently engaged the emergence and expansion of the phenomenon of Slave export. This article contributes to the existing stream by examining the role of human capital or intelligence on slave exports. We postulate and justify a reasonable hypothesis that countries...
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inclusive growth yet little attention has been paid to it in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Motivated by the dearth of studies on SSA …
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demonstrated trend of infrastructures in Africa in terms of stocks and future need is unique compared to the rest of the world. The … development in Africa. The results through the system GMM and Quantile Regression techniques show that women’s political … inclusion enhances infrastructural development in Africa. The result is robust across different measures of infrastructures and …
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developed and developing countries. However, in developing countries, and particularly in Africa, hunger is another big … corruption is the most disastrous for hunger in Africa, followed by legislative corruption. Our results remain valid even after …
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The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the national home grown school feeding programme (NHGSFP) in Nigeria. Its special focus is to investigate the impact of NHGSFP on rural communities in Nigeria. This paper adopts a survey research technique, aimed at gathering information from a...
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This study investigated two key questions: what is the impact of industrialisation on urbanisation in Africa? and to …
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