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Reproductive health and behavior, HIV/AIDS, and poverty in Africa
Glick, Peter (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003403050
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China's energy policy & investments and their impact on the Sub-Saharan African region
Grimoux, Valentin - 2018
clearer knowledge of how the Chinese investment system works will help to assess the scope of the Chinese strategy and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011890474
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Does access to international capital markets affect investment dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Senga, Christian; Cassimon, Danny; Kigabo, Thomas - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154408
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Are Africans practicing safer sex : evidence from demographic and health surveys for eight countries
Glick, Peter J. (contributor); Sahn, David E. (contributor) - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003251588
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Digitalization for energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa : challenges, opportunities and potential business models
Mazzoni, Davide - 2019
Innovative business models supported by digital technologies, together with the widening connectivity and data collection, are already giving a big contribution in fostering the access to electricity and clean cooking in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper gives an overview on the actual state of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011980678
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Volunteering and life or financial shocks : does income and wealth matter?
Beatton, Tony; Torgler, Benno - 2014
Volunteering is a dominant social force that signals a healthy state. However, although the literature on volunteering is extensive, knowledge on how life’s discontinuities (life event shocks) affect volunteering is limited because most studies work with static (cross-sectional) data. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459882
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Lessons from 15 years of experience with the Dutch tax allowance for energy investments for firms
Ruijs, Arjan; Vollebergh, Herman R. J. - 2013
and sustainable energy production. This Energy Investment Tax Allowance (EIA in Dutch) reduces up-front investment costs … deduct some of the investment costs from their taxable profits. The EIA may also reduce search costs by investors to find … revenues to subsidise investment in energy-efficient technologies and renewable energy is not very different from using on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757392
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The impact of ICT and intangible capital accumulation on labour demand growth and functional income shares
Stehrer, Robert - 2022
This paper investigates whether the diffusion of tangible IT and CT capital and intangible capital asset types has an impact on labour demand growth and the share of labour income in total income at the industry and country level. The econometric analysis is derived from a Cobb-Douglas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013274244
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Demography, capital accumulation and growth
Stehrer, Robert; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2022
Europe will be challenged by demographic changes over the next few decades, even under favourable assumptions about fertility and migration, but the economic effects are not yet fully understood. This paper studies the effects of population ageing on economic growth, capital deepening and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013417455
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A Time to Print, a Time to Reform
Boerner, Lars; Rubin, Jared; Severgnini, Battista - 2019
The public mechanical clock and the movable type printing press were two of the most important and complex general purpose technologies of the late medieval period. We document two of their most important, yet unforeseeable, consequences. First, an instrumental variables analysis indicates that...
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