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Service Sector Led Economic Growth in India and Some Measurement and Database Issues
Saikia, Dilip - 2017
In recent years there has been a rapid and sustained growth of the service sector in the Indian economy. But unfortunately, while the importance of the services is growing statistical data and other relevant information of the services are abysmally low. There are problems relating to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187326
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910879
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Vom Nutzen afrikanischer Zuwanderer für Europa. Wende in der EU-Einwanderungspolitik?
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
'brain drain' from Africa even more, while mil-lions of unskilled irregular migrants compete with the growing army of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790377
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A New Framework for African Economic Development with a Focus on Technological Innovation
Maswana, Jean-Claude - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
innovation that most parts of Africa do not currently perceive as a crucial factor for social change. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790397
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FINANCING EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN ERITREA – SOME IMPLICATIONS
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
. Eritrea is a newly born nation in Africa and is striving hard to develop its higher education. An attempt is made in this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836463
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Mental Accounting and Remittances: A Study of Malawian Households
Davies, Simon; Easaw, Joshy; Ghoshray, Atanu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837498
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Solar PV rural electrification and energy-poverty: A review and conceptual framework with reference to Ghana
Obeng, George Yaw; Evers, Hans-Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
the use of solar photovoltaic (PV) for energy poverty reduction in rural and peri-urban areas of Africa, there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059114
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The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades
Nunn, Nathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620183
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Income, gender and consumption: A study of Malawian households
Davies, Simon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621457
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China-Africa’s Emerging Economic Links: A review under the Core-Periphery perspective
Maswana, Jean-Claude - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621967