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Over the past two decades, donors increasingly linked foreign aid to democracy objectives in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet … and how foreign aid affects the process of democratic consolidation in sub-Saharan Africa by examining two potential …
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The business rights pillar of the Legal Empowerment of the Poor agenda is not preoccupied with equality of outcome; it concentrates instead on equality of opportunity. This paper addresses the lacuna in the business rights literature by 'bringing outcomes back in'. Certainly, equal outcomes are...
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male and female perceptions of typical entrepreneurship support services, such as government provision of information … suggest that existing support services are inadequate for promoting female entrepreneurship. Accordingly we discuss support …
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Does economic standing cross-cut ethnicity in African electoral politics? In many countries in the region, ethnicity appears to be a major consideration in individuals' political decision-making. However, there is significant variation in the extent to which coethnics support parties en bloc;...
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Inequalities between ethnic or racial groups, defined as horizontal inequalities, are pervasive and persistent. They persist due to cumulative and reinforcing inequalities arising from unequal access to different types of capital. Affirmative action policies can provide promising opportunities...
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sources are becoming more accessible for many of the nations in Africa. However, little is known about the underlying climate …. We find that wind resources vary more over time and space than solar across Africa. Due mostly to these variations in …
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to play a significant role in many regional power pools in Africa. Feasible power transmission highways from Grand Inga … expected to cause major variations in Africa's hydrological resources and it is not known how these changes may impact the … regional integration in sub-Saharan Africa and how this value may change in the face of climate change. This work builds on …
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One key element in the reduction of poverty and (in Latin America) inequality has been the achievement of greater fiscal equity; we analyse one key part of this process, which is the earmarking of portions of tax revenue to be spent on progressive public expenditures such as social protection,...
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China's WTO Accession): it is not enough to assume, given Africa's high spatial inequality, that local economies will …
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escalation facing Africa, improvements in the productivity of agricultural processing, and reductions in trade barriers within … Africa and beyond would all further stimulate exports of processed agriculture. While essential, expansion of these exports …
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