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Playing to Strength : Growth Strategy for Small Agrarian Economies in Africa
Yusuf, Shahid - 2018
economies in Africa need an alternative strategic approach to long-term growth. The purpose of this paper is to identify a … growth strategy with the greatest potential for small, landlocked economies in East Africa. The paper uses Malawi, Rwanda …. Undoubtedly, there are obstacles to transferring the advanced technologies wholesale to East Africa, but their eventual …
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The Role of Historical Christian Missions in the Location of World Bank Aid in Africa
Alpino, Matteo - 2020
allocation of present-day World Bank aid at the grid-cell level in Africa. The correlation is robust to an extensive set of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841687
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Cash Transfers and Temptation Goods : A Review of Global Evidence
Evans, David - 2017
supported by data from Latin America, Africa, and Asia. A growing number of studies from a range of contexts therefore indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973201
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How Subjective Beliefs About HIV Infection Affect Life-Cycle Fertility : Evidence from Rural Malawi
Shapira, Gil - 2017
This paper studies the effect of subjective beliefs about HIV infection on fertility decisions in a context of high HIV prevalence and simulates the impact of different policy interventions, such as HIV testing programs and prevention of mother-to-child transmission, on fertility and child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974650
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Agriculture, Aid and Economic Growth in Africa
McArthur, John - 2018
How can foreign aid to agriculture support economic growth in Africa? This paper constructs a geographically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918516
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Long-Run Growth in Ghana : Determinants and Prospects
Herrera, Santiago - 2017
Ghana's economic growth picked up in the early 2000s and has been exceptionally strong over the past few years, with price booms of its main commodity exports, gold and cocoa, and the initiation of commercial oil production in 2011. This paper examines recent econometric evidence on Ghana's...
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Economic Growth in Ghana : Determinants and Prospect
Raggl, Anna Katharina - 2017
This paper employs a simple cross-country panel framework to assess the determinants of growth in Ghana's gross domestic product over the past four decades. A set of standard covariates is used to explain growth rates. Natural resource variables are included because the effects of natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973576
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Urbanization and (In)Formalization
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
Two of the great stylized predictions of development theory, and two of the great expectations of policy makers as indicators of progress in development, are inexorable urbanization and inexorable formalization. Urbanization is indeed happening, beyond the "tipping point" where half the world's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974582
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Liberia : Strategic Policy Options for Medium Term Growth and Development
Dessus, Sebastien - 2017
The objective of this paper is to inform Liberia's medium-term growth and development strategy for 2012-17 and its National Vision: Liberia Rising 2030, both of which are under preparation. The analysis is based on MAMS (Maquette for MDG [Millennium Development Goal]) Simulations, a computable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975199
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Development Strategies : Integrating Governance and Growth
Levy, Brian - 2017
A frontier challenge for development strategy is to move beyond prescribing optimal economic policies, and instead -- taking a broad view of the interactions between economic, political and social constraints and dynamics -- to identify entry points capable of breaking a low-growth logjam, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976706