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Can cities or towns drive African development? Economy-wide analysis for Ethiopia and Uganda
Dorosh, Paul; Thurlow, James - 2012
Rapid urbanization is an important characteristic of African development and yet the structural transformation debate focuses on agriculture's relative merits without also considering the benefits from urban agglomeration. As a result, African governments are often provided conflicting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319945
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Aid for agriculture and rural development in the global south: A changing landscape with new players and challenges
Chimhowu, Admos - 2013
This paper analyses the way aid for agriculture and rural development in the global south has changed over time. It finds three key shifts. First, a change in funding priority that has seen aid commitments move to the social sectors. Second is a shift in priority within agriculture and rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319922
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330121
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319782
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319787
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319797
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319935
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280113
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280127
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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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