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According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century … will be due to population growth in Africa. Given this, any policy that influences African demography will have a … significant impact on the world distribution of income. In this paper we discuss the potential for migration policies to affect …
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empirically establishes the hypothesis that in the course of the exodus of Homo sapiens out of Africa, variation in migratory …
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In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later transmit to the household the ideas, values and...
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The diversity of social interaction within economic communities affects productivity and growth, and is itself shaped by economic conditions. These reciprocal effects raise the possibility of multiple equilibria, of setting a socially polarized economy stagnating in poverty on a new path of...
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Since mid-2000s, Ethiopia has been one of the fastest growing countries in the world. However, productive …
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unemployment rates in Africa. The paper first documents the various labor market disadvantages faced by the Swazi youth, such as …
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We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the … World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the period 2005 to 2012. We find that rural … failed in Africa …
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TThis paper explores the effects of remittance receipt on child labour in an African context. We focus on Burkina Faso, a country with a high prevalence of child labour and a high rate of migration. Given the complex relationship between remittance receipt and household time allocation...
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In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential market access program for the least developed sub-Saharan...
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This paper uses microdata for 19 African countries to examine the gender difference in maths test scores amongst primary school children. There is a significant difference in maths test scores in favour of boys, similar to that previously observed in developed countries. This difference cannot...
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