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A positive economic growth is one crucial macroeconomic objective of every nation. Many countries have formed regional as well as international trading blocs in an attempt to enhance economic growth and maximise welfare of each member state, the AFTZ member states are not an exception. This...
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'brain drain' from Africa even more, while mil-lions of unskilled irregular migrants compete with the growing army of …
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innovation that most parts of Africa do not currently perceive as a crucial factor for social change. …
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. Eritrea is a newly born nation in Africa and is striving hard to develop its higher education. An attempt is made in this …
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In this paper we use a behavioural approach to studying household consumption behaviour in Malawi. In particular we are interested to know whether households use mental accounting when consuming different categories of good. It is useful for assessing the impact of remittances on household...
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the use of solar photovoltaic (PV) for energy poverty reduction in rural and peri-urban areas of Africa, there is …
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Can part of Africa’s current underdevelopment be explained by its slave trades? To explore this question, I use data … exported from each country during Africa’s slave trades. I find a robust negative relationship between the number of slaves …
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This paper uses 1998 household level data from urban Malawi to look at the impact on consumption patterns of the share of total household income accruing to different individuals within the household. Specifically, male and female income shares and other factors which may influence...
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This essay has explored the validity of Marxist dependency theories in the context of the emerging China-Africa trade … patterns, this discussion has shown that the China-Africa economic links represent a distinct south-south dialectic occurring … the idea that China’s involvement in Africa is of a conventional center-periphery type; which suggests the existence of …
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This paper investigates the effects of religion on a broad set of development outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. We …-Saharan Africa. However, our findings do suggest that religion has important effects on the development process through its effects …
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