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Senegal has experienced a rapid expansion in fixed and mobile broadband Internet infrastructure over the past decade …
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urban Senegal, we evaluate a measure of time and risk preferences through the individual's intertemporal discount rate and …
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urban Senegal, we evaluate a measure of time and risk preferences through the individual's intertemporal discount rate and …
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Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...
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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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by sub-regions, the magnitude of the colonial vestige in Africa is a significant determinant of emigration flows. Overall …
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but positive in Africa. We suggest that amongst reasons why African women behave differently are that the conventional … non-employment. In Africa, there is a decline in paid employment which overwhelms the rise in self-employment and this is …
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Africa. Five challenges resulting from this crisis are identified: a production challenge, an underutilization challenge, a …
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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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sector countries are concentrated in Western Africa (Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Niger, Senegal and Togo), Central Africa …In recent years, the private sector has been recognized as a key engine of Africa's economic development. Yet, the most … (Cameroun, Republic of Congo) and Eastern Africa (Kenya, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania), with the addition of Mauritius. Countries …
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