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This edited volume provides a critical evaluation of financing options for sustainable development in Africa. While … -- 4. Business Regulations and Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for Regulatory Reform -- 5 …. Broadening Financial Intermediation in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 6. Institutions, Fiscal Performance, and Development Trajectories in …
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How can Africa, the world's most lagging region, benefit from globalisation and achieve sustained economic growth …? Africa needs greater investment by Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) to improve competitiveness and generate more growth … through positive spill-over effects. Despite the fact that Africa's returns on investment averaged 29% since 1990, Africa has …
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‘This book is a timely effort to rethink Africa’s economic narrative. For nearly two decades Africa’s popular storyline … was represented by the “Africa Rising” meme built on the commodity boom and rise of China as Africa’s leading trading … partner. It was simple, catchy and hopeful…but optimism alone does not constitute a strategy to guide Africa’s search for …
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Jakob Schwab analyzes central mechanisms in the systematic economic interaction between rich and poor countries. He focuses on the drivers and effects of investment in developing countries and shows that predictions of standard economic analysis may turn around when accounting for peculiarities...
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This open access book analyses the development problems of sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) from the eyes of a Korean diplomat … with knowledge of the economic growth Korea has experienced in recent decades. The author argues that Africa's development … Africa's problems are caused by a lack of leadership. In exploring an approach based on mind-set and nation-building, rather …
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of economic development and industrialization. It offers historical and contemporary case studies of transition, as well … identified. They are: (1) labor-intensive industrialization, which offers ample employment opportunities for labor force; (2 …1 Multiple Paths to Industrialization: A Global Context of the Rise of Emerging States (Kaoru Sugihara) -- 2 Technology …
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-- Technology Transfer for Economic Growth in Africa – Why it Matters -- Sub-Sahara African Countries’ Attractiveness to Technology …
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Sustainable Industrialization in Africa explores the issues that confront development policy in the context of the MDGs … for sustainable industrialization in Africa, based upon the differences in its current industrialization trajectories, are … of sustainable, equitable industrialization, and that any development agenda for the future has to ensure that …
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This book examines how to promote industrial development in low-income countries. It considers the role of traders in the evolution of a cluster, the role of managerial human capital, the effect of the 'China shock', and the role of industrial policies focused on international knowledge transfer...
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, Organisation und Koordination der Standort- und Regionalentwicklung -- Regionale Einbettung als Chance für einen neuen Standort. … analysiert Fragen zur Standort- und Regionalentwicklung aus der Perspektive eines multinationalen Unternehmens. Er zeigt Ansätze …, Organisation und Koordination der Standort- und Regionalentwicklung Regionale Einbettung als Chance für einen neuen Standort Die …
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