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Beijing Model. Both the first and second schools have core values articulated by the New Partnership for Africa’s Development …
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her operations and local businesses; exporting low quality products to Africa; and the emergence of China hindering Africa …
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dropped substantially in all regions with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa. We assess if poverty is in the African gene by … revisiting the findings of Ashraf and Galor (2013, AER) and reformulating the ‘Out of Africa Hypothesis’ into a ‘Genetic … Diversity Hypothesis’ for a ‘Within Africa Analysis’. We motivate this reformulation with five shortcomings arising for the most …
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The Kodila-Tedika & Bolito-Losembe (2014, ADR) finding on no evidence of causality flowing from State fragility to classical corruption or extreme corruption could have an important influence on academic and policy debates. Using updated data (1996-2010) from 53 African countries, we provide...
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’s economic diplomatic strategies and discusses lessons for Africa, China and the West. It contributes to existing literature by …
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influence the election and replacement of political leaders in Africa may have insignificant results. It is time to solve the … paper extends the debate on foreign aid and institutions in Africa in the light a plethora of recent studies in the aid …
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The paper provides theoretical and empirical justifications for the instrumentality of foreign aid in stimulating private investment and fixed capital formation through fiscal policy mechanisms. We propose an endogenous growth theory based on an extension of Barro (1990) by postulating that the...
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This paper develops an empirically-relevant framework (a) to examine whether or not the African business environment hinders or promotes the knowledge economy (KE), (b) to determine how the KE which emerges from such an environment affects economic growth, and (c) how growth in turn relates to...
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The paper verifies the Azzimonti et al. (2014) conclusions on a sample of 53 African countries for the period 1996-2008. Authors of the underlying study have established theoretical underpinnings for a negative nexus between rising public debt and inequality in OECD nations. We assess the...
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academic circles. Against the background of growing political instability in Africa and the central role of the knowledge … learning can be an effective tool in the fight against violence and political insurgency in Africa. Originality/value – As the …
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