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Historical origins of persistent inequality in Nigeria

Archibong, Belinda - 2016

Horizontal inequality by ethnic group has remained remarkably persistent for wealth, education, and access to certain services in Nigeria. While significant gains in the reduction of inequality and improvement in access have been made for more locally administered services, outcomes are stickier...

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Should Africa industrialize?

Page, John - 2011

Africa should industrialize. Without structural change it cannot sustain recent growth. Economies with more diverse and … sophisticated industrial sectors tend to grow faster. But since 1980 Africa has deindustrialized. The paper shows that between 1975 … and 2005 the size, diversity and sophistication of industry in Africa have all declined. An industrialization strategy …

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Foreign aid and decentralization: Policies for autonomy and programming for responsiveness

Dickovick, J. Tyler - 2013

Donor support for decentralization comes in two main categories: recommendations at the policy level and project activities at the programming level. At the policy level, donors promote decentralization by recommending greater autonomy for subnational actors. That is, they advocate for reforms...

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Policing reforms and economic development in African states. Understanding the linkages: empowering change

Marenin, Otwin - 2013

achieving security, yet the experience of changing policing systems in Africa is disappointing. Only South Africa and a few post …

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Aid and infrastructure financing: Emerging challenges with a focus on Africa

Addison, Tony; Anand, P. B. - 2012

, especially in Africa, the role of foreign aid in the future should be distinctly different. While aid will be required to …

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Foreign aid and democratic development in Africa

Dietrich, Simone; Wright, Joseph - 2012

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 long-run impact of foreign aid in 36 African countries: Insights from multivariate time series analysis

Juselius, Katarina; Framroze Møller, Niels; Tarp, Finn - 2011

Studies of aid effectiveness abound in the literature, often with opposing conclusions. Since most time-series studies use data from the exact same publicly available data bases, our claim here is that such differences in results must be due to the use of different econometric models and...

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The global financial crisis and development: Whither Africa?

Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - 2010

The global economic crisis beginning in 2008 has come at a very inopportune time for Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …

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Tourism and economic growth: African evidence from panel vector autoregressive framework

Seetanah, Boopen; Padachi, Kessevan; Rojid, Sawkut - 2011

Using a panel vector autoregressive model this paper investigates the dynamic and endogeneous contribution of tourism to output based on a sample of 40 African countries for the period 1990 - 2006. Results from the study confirm tourism to be an important ingredient of African development...

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Does lack of innovation and absorptive capacity retard economic growth in Africa?

Onyeiwu, Steve - 2011

-country regressions covering 31 Sub-Saharan African countries suggest that growth in Africa is not simply a question of capital …

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