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Abstract The East Asian countries have achieved a spectacular average rate of economic growth over the last 30 to 40 years, with very substantial diversification and economic development. Korea, for example, managed to transform itself from being a largely agricultural society in 1960 to the...
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Recent political transformations in Arab countries suggest that solutions have to be found for the problem of lacking economic prospects and particularly of high youth unemployment. Such solutions have to consist of economic growth that unfolds widespread employment effects. A tourism policy...
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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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Polygyny rates are higher in Western Africa than in Eastern Africa. The African slave trades explain this difference …. More male slaves were exported in the trans-Atlantic slave trades from Western Africa, while more female slaves were … exported in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea slave trades from Eastern Africa. The slave trades led to prolonged periods of …
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nationalism in Africa and elsewhere shows remarkable differences both in its roots and its impact, compared with that of the …, Sara, Daniel Hammett, and Paul Nugent (eds.) (2007), Making Nations, Creating Strangers. States and Citizenship in Africa … National Identity in Africa. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199286751, 448 pages …
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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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The ``land abundance'' view of African history uses sparse population to explain economic institutions. I provide supporting evidence from the Egba of Nigeria. I use early colonial court records to show that Egba institutions fit the theory's predictions. Before 1914, the Egba had poorly defined...
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This article is based on field studies in rural West Africa. It concentrates on the socio-structural effects of …
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pollution level. The study seeks to examine the pattern and nature of EKC in Africa and major income groups according to World … Bank classification comprising low income, lower middle income and upper middle income in Africa. In ensuring the … robustness of our study; the paper proceeded by ascertaining the nature of EKC in all fifty-three countries of Africa in order to …
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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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