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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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, previous studies have shown that remittances money is often used for health services and educational expenses, factors that may … country, the paper also confirms that several socio-economic factors such as female labor force participation, percent of the …
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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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By exploiting recent advances in mixed (stochastic parameter) ordered probit estimators and a unique longitudinal dataset from Ghana, this paper examines the distribution of subjective wellbeing across sectors of employment and offers insights into the functioning of developing country labor...
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information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be …
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Using panel data on immigrant populations from European, Asian and African countries the study estimates positive associations between the number of mobile applications in use aiming to facilitate immigrants' societal integration (m-Integration) and increased level of integration (Ethnosizer),...
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This study examines the impact of firm resources on ICT adoption by the Turkish business enterprises using firm level … data. ICT adoption is measured at three levels: The first level is technology ownership. The second level is the presence … the complementarity, firm's resources play an important role in the adoption of technology while advancing from single …
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