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Countries need capacity for a variety of reasons, including sustaining economic growth, generating jobs, reducing … capital, and organizational performance, as well as introduces interpretations from co-evolutionary dynamics and the role of …
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Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have been successfully used as an industrial policy tool in many countries. Efforts to create SEZs in Tanzania began in 2002, and were stepped up through the establishment of the Export Processing Zone Authority (EPZA) in 2006. A number of state-run zones are now in...
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. A series of shocks, especially the fuel and food price crisis of 2008, combined with poor productivity growth in …
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2010s. The evidence suggests that effective SBRs can matter for economic performance. The case studies suggest that SBRs … SBRs measures are related to higher economic growth and firm level productivity. …
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After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since … around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as …
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Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since … the mid-1980s. This paper analyses the nature of the growth and then presents an analysis of the evolution of both …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …
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endogeneity problem in the aid-growth relationship. Evidence from a panel VAR model estimated on the dataset of NDHKM, suggests a …
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This paper confirms recent evidence of a positive impact of aid on growth and widens the scope of evaluation to a range … of outcomes including proximate sources of growth (e.g., physical and human capital), indicators of social welfare (e … coherent and favorable pattern of results emerges. Aid has over the past forty years stimulated growth, promoted structural …
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trends. We evaluate the implications of climate change for overall growth and development prospects to 2050. We focus on … uncertainty in climate forecasts. We find that climate change is unlikely to substantially slow overall economic growth over the …
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The structure of the Nigerian economy is typical of an underdeveloped country. The primary sector, in particular, the oil and gas sector, dominates the gross domestic product accounting for over 95 per cent of export earnings and about 85 per cent of government revenue between 2011 and 2012. The...
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