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by sub-regions, the magnitude of the colonial vestige in Africa is a significant determinant of emigration flows. Overall …
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In recent years, the private sector has been recognized as a key engine of Africa's economic development. Yet, the most … sector countries are concentrated in Western Africa (Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Niger, Senegal and Togo), Central Africa … (Cameroun, Republic of Congo) and Eastern Africa (Kenya, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania), with the addition of Mauritius. Countries …
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achievement trait (income). Individuals who are less likely to achieve are predicted to invest more value on nationalism and to …
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The potential failure of national industry agreements to take into account productivity levels of least productive regions has been considered as one of the causes of regional unemployment in European countries. Two solutions are generally proposed: the first, encouraged by the European...
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We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic …
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Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008) document that the cross-country correlation between income per capita and democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on democracy might differ systematically across countries....
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The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural Socioeconomic Survey (ERSS) and the 2010/2011 Nigeria General Household Survey … productive. In Nigeria, we find evidence for spatial autocorrelation at the individual enterprise level but not at the community …
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This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household consumption and poverty in Nigeria, the … largest economy and mobile broadband market in Africa. The analysis exploits a unique dataset that integrates three waves of a …
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The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural Socioeconomic Survey (ERSS) and the 2010/2011 Nigeria General Household Survey … productive. In Nigeria, we find evidence for spatial autocorrelation at the individual enterprise level but not at the community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398239
Between 1993 and 1994, extremist militia groups carried out the extermination of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the genocides of Burundi and Rwanda. Nearly one million people were killed and thousands were forcibly uprooted from their homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a...
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