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Specification of Investment Functions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bayraktar, Nihal - 2016
It is a well-known fact that one of the most important determinants of growth is private investment. But in the developing country context of widespread poverty, the effects of initial conditions on the process of capital accumulation have seldom been investigated. This paper highlights...
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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-indexed applied general equilibrium model that considers pathways through which aid might affect growth and structural transformation of labor markets in the context of soil nutrient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918516
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Is Africa's Economy at a Turning Point?
Go, Delfin S. - 2008
In this paper, Arbache, Go, and Page examine the recent acceleration of growth in Africa. Unlike the past, the performance is now registered broadly across several types of countries-particularly the oil-exporting and resource-intensive countries and, in more recent years, the large- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772699
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Domestic Constraints, Firm Characteristics, and Geographical Diversification of Firm-Level Manufacturing Exports in Africa
Yoshino, Yutaka - 2008
Using firm-level data on manufacturing sectors in Africa, this paper addresses how domestic supply constraints and other firm characteristics explain the geographical orientation of firms' exports and the overall market diversification of African manufacturing exports. The degree of market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219055
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Does Gender Equality in Labor Participation Bring Real Equality? Evidence From Developed and Developing Countries
Alfani, Federica; Clementi, Fabio; Fabiani, Michele; … - 2021
Over the past two decades developing countries have seen a rapid increase in the number of women taking an active role in the labor market. While acknowledging that this is an important development outcome, this paper cautions against the possible undesired distributional effects that it can...
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A Financial Social Accounting Matrix for the Integrated Macroeconomic Model for Poverty Analysis : Application to Cameroon with a Fixed-Price Multiplier Analysis
Emini, Christian Arnault; Fofack, Hippolyte - 2013
Cameroon is engaged in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process, which emphasizes increased focus on poverty reduction in the design and implementation of growth and adjustment strategies. The Integrated Macroeconomic Model for Poverty Analysis (IMMPA) framework recently developed at...
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International Benchmarking for Country Economic Diagnostics : A Stochastic Frontier Approach
Norambuena, Vivian - 2020
This paper discusses the analytical foundations of international comparisons for assessing a country's potential for improvement along various dimensions of social and economic development. The paper presents the Stochastic Frontier approach and applies it to estimate feasible frontiers or...
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Intellectual Property Rights, Human Capital and the Incidence of R&D Expenditures
Bravo-Ortega, Claudio; Lederman, Daniel - 2013
Numerous studies predict that developing countries with low human capital may not benefit from the strengthening of intellectual property rights. The authors extend an influential theoretical framework to highlight the role of intellectual property rights in the process of innovation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196749
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Income Diversification in Zimbabwe : Welfare Implications from Urban and Rural Areas
Ersado, Lire - 2016
diversification in Zimbabwe following macroeconomic policy changes and droughts of the early 1990s. Data from two comparable national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748016
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Zimbabwe's Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective
Pushak, Nataliya - 2017
less than half a percentage point to Zimbabwe's improved per capita growth performance in recent years. Raising the country …. Zimbabwe made significant progress in infrastructure in its early period as an independent state, building a national … political turmoil in the late 1990s. Zimbabwe now faces a number of important infrastructure challenges, the most pressing of …
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