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Spatial Differences in Stunting and Household Agricultural Production in South Africa : (Re-)Examining the Links Using National Panel Survey Data
Otterbach, Steffen - 2017
South Africa is one of only a handful of countries in which the prevalence of child stunting has increased over the period during which progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been monitored. One explanation for this reversal is that Big Food retail chains have been...
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The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth : Evidence from U.S. Counties
Hammond, George W. - 2009
We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our …. Our results suggest that local government decentralization matters differently for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153508
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Fiscal Decentralization and Development : How Crucial is Local Politics?
Pal, Sarmistha - 2010
Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic … institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local … development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal decentralization enhanced free and fair local elections, though the …
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Failing to Pull Together : South Africa's Troubled Response to Covid-19
Naudé, Wim - 2020
a smart and flexible lockdown, based on data, testing, decentralization, demographics and appropriate economic support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823866
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Entrepreneurship, Education and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Africa
Naudé, Wim - 2017
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through three interrelated sets of technologies, namely automation, additive manufacturing and the Industrial Internet. In this paper I set out the case for why Africa should industrialize....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952621
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Effect of Perceptions and Behaviour on Access to and Use of Financial Service : Evidence from South Africa
Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2012
This study investigates the effect of financial perception and behaviour on; (a) general accounts and services, (b) investment/savings and (c) insurance/assurance Using FinScope dataset from South Africa over the period 2003 to 2009,ordered probit, generalized ordered probit and pseudo panel...
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Migration and Urbanisation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Bakker, Jan - 2016
Under apartheid, black South Africans were severely restricted in their choice of location and many were forced to live in homelands. Following the abolition of apartheid they were free to migrate. Given gravity, a town nearer to the homelands can be expected to receive a larger inflow of people...
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Incubators, Accelerators and Regional Economic Development
Madaleno, Margarida - 2018
A growing wave of co-location programmes promises to boost growth for entrepreneurs and young firms. Despite great public and policy interest we have little idea whether such programmes are effective. This paper categorises accelerators and incubators within a larger family of co-location...
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Human Capital Spillovers, Productivity and Regional Convergence in Spain
Ramos, Raul - 2009
This paper analyses the differential impact of human capital, in terms of different levels of schooling, on regional productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers of human capital is also considered by applying spatial panel data techniques. The empirical...
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The Effect of Migration on Income Growth and Convergence : Meta-Analytic Evidence
Ozgen, Ceren - 2009
We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence is about 2.7%. An increase in the net migration rate of...
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