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transformation in Africa, focusing on sectoral output shares, sectoral employment shares, and the relative labour productivity of … sectors. We find that Africa is gradually advancing towards structural transformation but at a very slow speed. The empirical …
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at the city level in Africa, this scholarship has neglected the political economy and, more importantly, the informal …
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. There are many opportunities to expand trade in services between South Africa and other African countries. Improvements in … urban planning, design, and governance are vital to create more productive and liveable cities. South Africa has many … capabilities to support urbanization in Africa. However, South African companies have been relatively unsuccessful at exporting …
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role of economic factors such as the lack of agglomeration economies and poor infrastructure in urban Africa. …
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Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have become common across Southern Africa in the past 20 years. In line with experiences … Southern Africa, by contrast, it has proved unable to offset the main constraints on investment. These centre on deep … developed in very different circumstances are viable in Southern Africa. The paper suggests that such a methodology must start …
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Although development generally refers to a broad concept, the quest for development in Sub-Saharan Africa has been …
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We look at how improving roads can affect jobs and structural transformation. We use a novel geocoded dataset covering the universe of Ethiopian roads and match this information with individual data to identify the effects of improvements in road infrastructure on the creation, quality, and...
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. -- urbanization ; rural development ; growth ; poverty ; CGE model ; Africa …
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This paper attempts to contribute to the understanding of the impacts of secure rural agricultural land rights on labour structural transformation from agriculture to non-agriculture as well as on urbanization, with a specific focus on Thailand. Using province-level panel data and instrumental...
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Dar es Salaam is exceptional in East Africa for having a record of relatively little ethnic tension, and remaining …
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