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transformation in Africa, focusing on sectoral output shares, sectoral employment shares, and the relative labour productivity of … sectors. We find that Africa is gradually advancing towards structural transformation but at a very slow speed. The empirical …
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Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have become common across Southern Africa in the past 20 years. In line with experiences … Southern Africa, by contrast, it has proved unable to offset the main constraints on investment. These centre on deep … developed in very different circumstances are viable in Southern Africa. The paper suggests that such a methodology must start …
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Although development generally refers to a broad concept, the quest for development in Sub-Saharan Africa has been …
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We look at how improving roads can affect jobs and structural transformation. We use a novel geocoded dataset covering the universe of Ethiopian roads and match this information with individual data to identify the effects of improvements in road infrastructure on the creation, quality, and...
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the current and future development of mining. Focusing on Tanzania as typical of the emerging new mineralizing Africa …
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. There are many opportunities to expand trade in services between South Africa and other African countries. Improvements in … urban planning, design, and governance are vital to create more productive and liveable cities. South Africa has many … capabilities to support urbanization in Africa. However, South African companies have been relatively unsuccessful at exporting …
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We examine the implications of the rise of a middle class in East and Southern Africa for food consumption patterns and …
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Uganda, like other African countries, has implemented reforms to decentralize political authority to local governments and reintroduce multiparty elections. This combination creates opportunities for national partisan struggles to emerge in local arenas and influence local service delivery. This...
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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...
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strategies by political parties during recent presidential elections in Kenya, South Africa, and Zambia. Specifically, the paper … argues that the nature of party competition in Africa, combined with rapid urbanization and informalization of the labour … Africa intersect with voting behaviour and political party development. …
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