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The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this …" countries in Africa, with attention to their economic, institutional, demographic, and social implications. Next I evaluate the …
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The global financial crisis and the subsequent uneven recovery have underscored the need for Africa's resilience to … African Community (EAC) and the Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU) - suggests that deeper intra-regional, and in particular …
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agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …
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Since mid-2000s, Ethiopia has been one of the fastest growing countries in the world. However, productive entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business environment. Moreover, the low-productive firms in the...
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With the year 2015 – the MDG finishing line – approaching, post-2015 goals as they impact Africa need to be firmed. The … promote shared prosperity in every society. We examine feasibility of these objectives for Sub-Saharan Africa, the world … rate, especially if in part achieved by lowering inequality, the Africa region would meaningfully contribute to the global …
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We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa … Northern America. This projection suggests Africa has considerable potential to enjoy a demographic dividend. Whether and when … these areas, coordinated policies will likely be most effective in generating the momentum needed to pull Africa's economies …
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We estimate the impact of exposure to conflict on health outcomes using geographic information on households' distance from conflict sites – a more accurate measure of shock exposure – and compare the impact on children exposed in utero versus after birth. The identification strategy relies...
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Africa's quest to achieving improved health status and meeting the Millennium Development Goals targets cannot be … citizens in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa, at least in the long run. Whilst there is evidence of more private and public …
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We conducted a randomized evaluation of two labor market interventions targeted to young women aged 18 to 19 in three of Nairobi's poorest neighborhoods. One treatment offered participants a bundled intervention designed to simultaneously relieve credit and human capital constraints; a second...
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In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development … Africa; (iii) describe the resurgence of technological start-up entrepreneurship in Africa and (iv) call for policy support …
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