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that Kenya, as the ninth largest economy in Africa and the fourth largest in sub-Saharan Africa and with a locational …This paper mainly analyses the drivers of economic growth in Kenya and the linkages to the labour market dynamics, with …
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. But has the rise of the African middle class promoted democratic consolidation? This paper uses the case of Kenya to …
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inequality in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. Conventionally measured inequality ranges from moderate (in Ghana) to extremely … statistics with those produced by ACEIR in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. The underlying country-specific income and expenditure … high (in South Africa). Trying to tell one coherent story about African inequality, however, is difficult. The construction …
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panel threshold framework applied to a panel of selected African economies for the period 1980 to 2007. We also compare our … and dynamic panel estimations. In the linear setting, we find no clear evidence of a positive effect of aid on growth. In …
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. -- tourism ; economic growth ; Africa ; panel vector autoregression …Using a panel vector autoregressive model this paper investigates the dynamic and endogeneous contribution of tourism …
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Land registration and titling in Africa has been seen as a means of legal empowerment of the poor that can protect … smallholders' and pastoralists' rights of access to land and other land-based resources. Land registration is also on the … ethnojustice agenda in parts of Africa and beyond. Yet legal empowerment via registration and titling is also advocated by those …
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In less than a decade, foreign investors have erected more than 3,200 wind turbines across the Isthmus of Techuantepec investing billions of dollars and generating more than 90 per cent of Mexico's wind energy. The isthmus is also home to more than one thousand indigenous communities whose...
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rural Tanzanian villages. Drawing on a panel of 5,101 plots, we find that a decrease in the share of land held by an …
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Household Survey (VARHS) panel data set from 2008-16 to consider the specific impacts of increased commercialization of rice …
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We assess the relative importance of statistical residual-based measures of discrimination in determining indigenous Australians' perceptions of discrimination in the labour market. We find that statistical measures are largely unrelated to discrimination reports among males and negatively...
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