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Understanding Chinese and Western development finance in Uganda, South Africa, and Zimbabwe

Muchapondwa, Edwin; Mukanjari, Samson - 2014

also going into Uganda and South Africa while South Africa is the darling of Western donors. Chinese funded projects are …

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Aid, political business cycles and growth in Africa

Chiripanhura, Blessing M.; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2014

This paper develops a model of opportunistic behaviour in which an incumbent government resort to expansionary fiscal and/or monetary stimuli to foster economic growth and thus, maximize the probability of re-election. Using a panel dataset of 51 African countries covering the period 1980 to...

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Industrial policy in practice: Africa's Presidential Investors' Advisory Councils

Page, John - 2014

Recent writing on industrial policy stresses the need for coordination between the public and private sectors. This paper examines the performance of one such coordination mechanism, Presidential Investors' Advisory Councils, in Ethiopia, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda. It finds that the councils...

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Institutional bypass and aid effectiveness in Africa

Chasukwa, Michael; Banik, Dan - 2019

government institutions while channeling aid and the impact of such practices on aid effectiveness in Africa. Based on an …

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Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in Africa

Funjika, Patricia; Getachew, Yoseph Yilma - 2019

This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of...

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Aid, structural change and the private sector in Africa

Page, John - 2012

change in Africa. Africa's development partners have devoted too few resources and too little attention to two critical …

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Conflict and entrepreneurial activity in Afghanistan: Findings from the national risk vulnerability assessment data

Ciarli, Tommaso; Parto, Saeed; Savona, Maria - 2010

effect of the conflict on entrepreneurship is very small. The results on the control variables suggest that (i) the … generation of entrepreneurship has seen conflict and instability for a whole life,( ii) a small business is a mean of surviving …

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Entrepreneurship, stages of development, and industrialization

Ács, Zoltan J.; Naudé, Wim - 2011

Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...

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Entrepreneurial activity and civil war in Colombia: Exploring the mutual determinants between armed conflict and the private sector

Rettberg, Angelika; Leiteritz, Ralf; Nasi, Carlo - 2010

As elsewhere, the Colombian private sector has been accused of promoting or profiting from violence in the country. However, the private sector's role in the armed conflict and the impact of conflict on entrepreneurial activity vary, as reflected by differences in political activism, in...

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Entrepreneurship and human development: A capability approach

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2010

We provide a formal model of entrepreneurship in human development. The framework is provided by the capabilities … approach (CA). Hence we extend not only the conceptualisation of entrepreneurship in development, but the reach of the CA into … entrepreneurship. From a CA view, entrepreneurship is not only a production factor, or a means to an end, as is often taken to be the …

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