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Donor-supported approaches to improving extractives governance : lessons from Nigeria and Ghana
Buckley, Joanna; McCulloch, Neil; Travis, Nick - 2017
Donor interest in the extractives sector is based upon the premise that it represents an opportunity to improve a country’s development prospects. However, in many cases the presence of extractive resources is associated with poor economic performance. As a result, some donors are trying a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597007
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Mining-related national systems of innovation in southern Africa : national trajectories and regional integration
Fessehaie, Judith; Rustomjee, Zavareh; Kaziboni, Lauralyn - 2016
regional system of innovation, including institutional relationships, cross-border investment flows, flows of mining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489271
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Identifying growth opportunities in the Southern African Development Community through regional value chains : the case of the animal feed to poultry value chain
Ncube, Phumzile; Roberts, Simon; Zengeni, Tatenda; … - 2017
This paper considers findings of studies analysing the development of a regional animal feed to poultry value chain in southern Africa (Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe). The southern African regional poultry value chain is underdeveloped, although important changes include investments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588841
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Sources of output growth in the countries of the Common Monetary Area and the provinces of South Africa
Sahoo, Dukhabandhu; Sahoo, Auro Kumar; Behera, Jayanti; … - 2021
This paper aims to decompose the sources of growth in economies in the Southern African region's Common Monetary Area and in the provinces of South Africa. Decomposition results for the Common Monetary Area reveal that the growth of aggregate and sectoral gross domestic product is driven by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012432956
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Capital flight and foreign direct investment in Africa : an investigation of the role of natural resource endowment
Ndikumana, Léonce; Sarr, Mare - 2016
investment (FDI) inflows in Africa and capital flight from the continent over the past decades. It specifically explores two … questions: Is FDI a potential driver of capital flight? And, is natural resource endowment a possible channel for the capital … flight-FDI link? The econometric analysis is based on 32 African countries over the period 1970-2013 using dynamic panel data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460045
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Good institutions and tax revenue outcomes in resource-rich countries : when "good" is not enough
Chachu, Daniel Ofoe - 2021
Developing countries that experience commodity booms struggle to mobilize sustainable tax revenues. Emerging literature on the subject notwithstanding, there is limited exploration of the specific types of institutions critical for improving fiscal capacity in resourcerich contexts. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509295
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Mining and economic development : did China's WTO accession affect African local economic development?
Addison, Tony; Boly, Amadou; Mveyange, Anthony - 2016
This paper investigates China's influence on local economic development in 37 African countries between 1997 and 2007. We compare the average changes in economic growth, migration, spatial inequality, and welfare of mineral-rich districts, both prior and after China's WTO Accession, to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571830
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Public savings in Africa : do sovereign wealth funds serve development?
Addison, Tony; Lebdioui, Amir - 2022
stabilization, productive investment, intergenerational saving) and discusses alternatives. We argue that fiscal stabilization funds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013469624
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Aid and investment in statistics for Africa
Round, Jeffery I. - 2012
Over many past decades countries in sub-Saharan Africa have received extensive bilateral and multilateral aid in support of the production of relevant, timely, and good quality data and statistics. But assessing aid effectiveness in the statistical area is a complex matter. Many datasets are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009667962
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The contribution of services to trade and development in Southern Africa
Visagie, Justin; Turok, Ivan - 2019
Community between 1995 and 2012, and supplement this with a review of Foreign Direct Investment from South Africa. Tradable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012003785