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African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural … agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …
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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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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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We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the …
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estimators and applying a battery of robustness checks. Industrialization in Africa is driven by historical legacies such as … and adoption of digital technologies are found to have an ambiguous relationship with industrialisation in Africa. The …
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-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near … historical ethnic borders in Sub-Saharan Africa. …
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Returns to education remain an important parameter of interest in economic analysis. A large literature estimates returns to education in the labor market, often carefully addressing issues such as selection, both into wage employment and in terms of completed schooling. There has been much less...
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This paper identifies five areas where climate change may impact work and draws lessons for developing countries by reviewing the evidence. Firstly, demand for labor is unevenly affected, with agriculture, heat-exposed manufacturing, and the brown energy sector experiencing downturns, while...
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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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