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Assessing the Impact of Ease of Doing Business and Corruption on Economic Growth for Africa Free Trade Zone (AFTZ) Member States
Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2018
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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Foreign Aid, Legal Origin, Economic Growth and Africa’s Least Developed Countries
Wamboye, Evelyn; Adekola, Abel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The issue of foreign aid dependency in African countries remains controversial among policy makers. So far, there is no consensus on aid effectiveness and the resulting policy prescriptions have been conflicting. The Euro zone which provides the bulk of foreign aid to developing countries, is...
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Economic Growth, Biodiversity and Conservation Policies in Africa: an Overview
Iritie, Jean-Jacques - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
- sity conservation policies implemented in Africa, i.e. protected areas and we discuss its effectiveness in achieving the …
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Empirical relationship between charcoal production and the social cost of carbon emissions.
Ackah, Ishmael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
There have been increased attention on how man’s activities affect the environment negatively especially in developed countries. However, there are countless number of activities such as charcoal production and electricity generation from oil in developing countries that have potential carbon...
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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
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Education as a driver of income inequality in twentieth-century Africa
Van Leeuwen, Bas; van Leeuwen-Li, Jieli; Foldvari, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this paper, we address the issue of how education affected income inequality in twentieth-century Africa. Three … the long-run education does not affect income growth, indicating that in twentieth-century Africa it was inspiration (i … determining income inequality in Africa. Taking an example from the end of the twentieth century, if educational equality had been …
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Financial instability, financial openness and economic growth in african countries
Batuo Enowbi, Michael; Kupukile, Mlambo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In the aftermath of the recent global financial crisis, the implication of financial liberalisation for stability and economic growth has come under increasing scrutiny. One strand of literature posits a positive relationship between financial liberalisation and economic growth and development....
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Togo: Failed election and misguided aid at the roots of economic misery
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
conditionality of aid, which had been emphasised as corner stone of the joint EU-Africa strategy. Recent empirical findings on the … linkage between democratization and economic performance in Western Africa are challenged because of lack of viable data. It …
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HIGHER EDUCATION IN AFRICA – A CASE OF ERITREA
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
. 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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Growth Effects of Globalization in the Low Income African Countries: A Systems GMM Panel Data Approach
Rao, B. Bhaskara; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The relationship between globalization and economic growth in the developing countries remains controversial. Liberals argue that globalization will lead to higher economic growth and prosperity. Skeptics contend the opposite, where globalization processes might lead to increased inequality and...
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