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development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries -- Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia …
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This essay first sets out the "business model" problems entailed by corruption and their effects as well as implications for economic growth. Key issues are the need for secrecy and co-operation with partners in crime. Dealing with these leads to behavior which is ostensibly bizarre and...
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the differential development impacts of alternative road construction and prioritize various proposals, using Nigeria as a … gross domestic product for Nigeria. Although the measure of transport is the most accurate possible, it is still endogenous … costs in Nigeria will increase crop revenue, non-agricultural income, the wealth index, and local gross domestic product …
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With farms cultivating tens or hundreds of thousands of hectares, Ukraine is often used to demonstrate the existence of economies of scale in modern grain production. Panel data analysis for all the country's farms with more than 200 hectares in 2001-2011 suggests that higher yields and profits...
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specified types of water and sanitation services in Nigeria. The analysis uses geo-located, population-representative data from … for levels of access to seven indicators of water and sanitation services across Nigeria at a resolution of 1?1 square …
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monetary costs among women in rural Nigeria. To measure psychic costs, vaccine take-up between two conditions to receive cash …
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This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household consumption and poverty in Nigeria, the …
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Intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence against women in conflict and non-conflict settings, but in conflict settings it often receives less attention than other forms of gender-based violence, such as conflict-related sexual violence. Using data from the 2008 and 2013...
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drivers of growth in Nigeria, and to predict growth rates of gross domestic product per capita for the country under different … natural resource rents are estimated to be particular important ingredients for a prosperous economic development in Nigeria …
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This paper examines the determinants of the productivity of Nigerian firms, using three waves of Enterprise Surveys from 2007, 2009, and 2014 and 7,670 firms. The paper uses three alternative measures of productivity, which are found to be highly correlated: labor productivity, value added per...
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