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There is frequent public and media concern over the cost of bloated cabinets in many Sub-Saharan African countries. Scholarship on elite clientelism links cabinet positions with corruption and practices that undermine sound policy making. This paper presents new data on the number of ministers...
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This study examines the impact of the African Growth and Opportunity Act using the synthetic control method, a quasi-experimental approach. The novelty in the approach is that it addresses problems of estimation that are prevalent in nonexperimental methods used to analyze the impact of...
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This paper describes the health financing policies used today by African countries to expand health coverage. It identifies key health financing policies used by African countries and measures the existence of regional patterns in the use of these policies. The paper does not attempt to identify...
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The National Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Program (NDDRP) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was implemented over a period of seven years (2004- 2011) with the World Bank's support and funding. The NDDRP had three objectives: 1) disarmament of all combatants willing...
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The strong economic performance of Sub-Saharan Africa's resource-rich countries since the start of the 21st century has … challenge for policymakers.Rwanda and Ethiopia have led Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in terms of per-capita growth since 2000 …, growing faster than South Asia. However, the gap between the resource-rich countries of Africa with East Asia and the Pacific …
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Bridging the Atlantic is a descriptive study of Brazil's involvement with counterparts in Sub-Saharan Africa through … to forge concrete and mutually beneficial partnerships between Brazil and Sub-Saharan Africa. Brazil and Sub …-Saharan Africa are natural partners, with at one point a shared geography and later a shared history. Since the turn of the twentieth …
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Ghana has experienced a decade of solid and exceptionally high growth. Between 2005 and 2015, income nearly doubled. This paper analyzes the factors driving this impressive growth performance, using tools such as structural change decompositions and growth regressions. For the comparative...
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Africa's Pulse is a biannual publication containing an analysis of the near-term macroeconomic outlook forthe region … continent. It is produced by the Office of the Chief Economist for the Africa Region of theWorld Bank.Recent data point to a … weakening of economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2018, according to the newAfrica's Pulse, a bi-annual analysis of the …
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Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is estimated to have decelerated from 2.5 percent in 2017 to 2.3percent in 2018 … 2018 October issue of Africa's Pulse {0.4 percentage points lower). Thisslowdown was more pronounced in the first half of ….The special topic of this issue of Africa's Pulse argues that the digital economy can unlock new pathways forinclusive growth …
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progress is Sub-Saharan Africa. The people of Africa are hard at work building a more hopeful future for their continent. There … good plans and good ideas. For Africa and the poorest countries in the world a critical source of development funding comes … responded with an 'Africa Action Plan.' Wolfowitz briefly discussed four key areas of focus: Education, Health, Private Sector …
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