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This paper examines multiple facets of New Delhi's development cooperation with countries in Africa and argues that … grassroots organizations in India that find innovative, low-cost technological solutions to developmental challenges can help … understand the major actors, instruments, themes, and mechanisms that make up India's Development cooperation towards countries …
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In this paper, we study the impact of ethnic fragmentation on the provision of private and public schools, separately. The distinction is made because the two types of schools have different objective functions, a factor which can influence the relationship between ethnic fragmentation and...
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India. We augment the collective household model by endogenizing female bargaining power and use a three-stage least squares …
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revenues and spends these revenues on public education. We simulate the model to a state in India and experimentally increase …
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government institutions while channeling aid and the impact of such practices on aid effectiveness in Africa. Based on an …
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Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has … of diversification in Africa's economies-in contrast to Asia's success stories. Structural adjustment did not change the … manufacturing and service clusters, Africa is yet to follow East Asia in integrating with the global economy in ways that add value …
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Africa. The paper places this move in historical perspective and examines the role that a particular aid agency played in … shaping the transfer of cash transfers to Africa. …
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This paper develops a model of opportunistic behaviour in which an incumbent government resort to expansionary fiscal and/or monetary stimuli to foster economic growth and thus, maximize the probability of re-election. Using a panel dataset of 51 African countries covering the period 1980 to...
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African countries. Thus, any policy initiative targeted towards poverty reduction in Africa should consider the agricultural ….5 per cent, and humanitarian 11.9 per cent. Using secondary data and country-case studies from Africa, the study …
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and Southern Africa. Total aid to these countries' environmental sectors for the 2000s decade is about US$10.17 billion …
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