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Diaspora externalities: A view from the South
Rapoport, Hillel - 2018
Migration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage effects on labour markets) and for the most part these can be seen as pure externalities. Diasporas are an example of such an externality. This paper reviews the recent economic...
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Globalizing Shanghai: International migration and the global city
Shen, Wei - 2010
Cities are the focal point for the mobility of talents, located between the nations and firms, states and educational institutions. Shanghai, being regarded as the 'ultimate poster-child for the effects of globalization on cities and regions' by the BBC (2007), the city is argued as the best...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280073
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Long-term effects of land reform on human capital accumulation: Evidence from West Bengal
Deininger, Klaus; Jin, Songqing; Yadav, Vandana - 2011
We use data on inter-generational gains in educational attainment by some 500,000 individuals in 200 West Bengal villages to explore gender-differentiated impacts of land reform on human capital accumulation at the individual level. While there are significant gains (of about 0.3 years for...
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Foreign aid and mobilization of growth factors in sub-Saharan Africa
Mallaye, Douzounet; Urbain, Yogo Thierry - 2013
effects of foreign aid on capital investment (human capital, physical capital) in sub-Saharan Africa. Our methodological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333691
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Capacity development for the transformation of Africa
Léautier, Frannie A. - 2014
expended to develop capacity in Africa with mixed results. This paper provides a working definition of capacity that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343254
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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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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...
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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