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Africa. The paper places this move in historical perspective and examines the role that a particular aid agency played in … shaping the transfer of cash transfers to Africa. …
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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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the contexts - the history, politics, social realities, and economic conditions - of partner countries. Second …
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achieving security, yet the experience of changing policing systems in Africa is disappointing. Only South Africa and a few post …
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, 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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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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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 economic crisis beginning in 2008 has come at a very inopportune time for Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …
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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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-country regressions covering 31 Sub-Saharan African countries suggest that growth in Africa is not simply a question of capital …
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