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This paper, using a new set of social development indices, explores the measurement of social development across Africa … minorities. This paper presents how the database can be used to compare the Africa region to global patterns, analyse divergence … across the continent, and explore the implications for our understanding of inclusive growth in Africa. …
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The story of South Asia is a topsy-turvy one. Soon after independence from British rule, the region seemed to have a much better prospect than many other parts of the Third World; the prospects soon dimmed, however, as South Asia crawled while East and Southeast Asia galloped away. But a large...
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This paper aims to revisit the pace and patterns of structural change in Morocco with a renewed perspective focusing on subnational trends to document the macro patterns. In that perspective, we first build a within-country sectoral longitudinal dataset covering employment and value added (VA)...
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In this paper we reassess the relationship between inequality and human development, focusing on the differential effect associated with the concentration of national income at different parts of the income distribution. To do so, we rely on a large global panel of countries over the last...
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Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their … needed. -- biofuels ; economic development ; food security ; poverty ; Africa …
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achieving security, yet the experience of changing policing systems in Africa is disappointing. Only South Africa and a few post … policing reform literature and African case studies, are suggested. -- Africa ; policing ; economic development ; policing …
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African countries are facing great opportunities but also formidable challenges in accelerating economic growth and sustaining a high level of economic performance. The experiences of East Asian countries may offer valuable insights for African leaders and governments in making concerted efforts...
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The global economic crisis beginning in 2008 has come at a very inopportune time for Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …. -- global financial crisis ; development ; Africa …
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China's WTO Accession): it is not enough to assume, given Africa's high spatial inequality, that local economies will …
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development in Latin America, or Volkskapitalisme in apartheid South Africa. But Mozambique's elite has also returned to two other …
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