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to the second quarter of 2021. The exploratory analysis shows that growth of Kenya's merchandise exports remained … resilient, largely supported by traditional exports of tea and horticultural products. However, the service exports …, particularly travel and transport services, were adversely affected. Heterogeneous effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on exports are …
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direct investment) on economic growth in Cameroon. Using the autoregressive distributive lag approach to cointegration and … direct investment have positive and significant impacts on economic growth in the short and long terms, while the impact of … the labour force on growth was significantly negative in both terms, a result that may be attributable to the fact that …
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This paper analyses factors for the declining trend in clove exports in Zanzibar using time series data that were … significant impacts in the long run at the one per cent level, while foreign direct investment, population growth rate, rainfall … exports indirectly through production. Extension services were poor while the local price of cloves was low and not stable. We …
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This study provides evidence that culture understood as values and beliefs moves very slowly. Despite massive institutional change, values and beliefs in transition countries have not changed much over the last 20 years. Evidence suggests that culture is affected by the long run historical past,...
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The current paper demonstrates a dichotomy of the growth response to changes in the barter terms of trade, employing as … country was to reverse course. -- resource economies ; terms of trade ; growth …
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I examine impacts of general budget support in 12 countries using the synthetic control approach. First, I analyse changes in government expenditures on health before and after the introduction of budget support. Second, I look at neonatal mortality (a presumed proxy for improvements in health...
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This paper analyses the role of foreign aid to assist development in two oil-rich countries: Indonesia and Nigeria. This paper seeks to understand the way foreign aid provided assistance to transform Indonesia from a 'fragile' state in the 1960s into one of the 'Asian Tigers' in the mid-1990s,...
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This paper examines the interaction of globalization through trade liberalization and climate change, globally with a special focus on Morocco and Turkey. We use the GTAP model, which is a global general equilibrium model, to investigate trade liberalization welfare impacts under climate change,...
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This paper examines the questions of why and how foreign assistance was utilized successfully in South Korea but less so in Ghana, with a focus on the role of aid in the process of state building and state transition in these two countries. Before the 1960s, South Korea and Ghana shared...
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Preventable and treatable childhood diseases, notably acute respiratory infections and diarrhoeal diseases are the first and second leading causes of death and morbidity among young children in developing countries. The fact that a large proportion of child deaths are caused by these diseases is...
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