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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 … century, Africa has become one of the major fronts of Brazil's international agenda. Africa is rapidly changing and Brazil has …
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This publication is the result of an initiative to promote an exchange between Brazil and African countries on lessons … conceptual approach to community forestry and REDD+; (ii) the key issues of REDD+ in connection with community forestry in Africa …; (iii) how REDD+ and forest carbon (FC) are being developed in Brazil; and (iv) conclusions …
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three late-bloomers in East Africa offsetting the boom-bust pattern in Southern Africa and the never-significant response in … Central and Western Africa. Firm-level customs data for selected countries reveal that even in East Africa, the recent export …
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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 study briefly summarizes the development experiences of special economic zones in China and Africa, the lessons … that Africa can learn from China, and the preliminary results of the Chinese investments in special economic zones in … Africa. The study makes recommendations on how to unleash the power of special economic zones and industrial zones in Africa …
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This paper investigates how internal migration is affected by Brazil's increased integration into the world economy. It … reaction of low-educated workers to changes in market access. This finding is consistent with the fact that Brazil is exporting …
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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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