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average more than two weeks in gateway ports in Africa while long dwell times are widely recognized as a critical hindrance to …
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Agricultural extension has not been particularly kind to Africa's women farmers. On a continent where women produce 90 … less from improved farming techniques. However, in Cameroon's North West province, over the last five years, the Mission de …
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Road construction has often been viewed as the precursor to deforestation, especially in tropical forests. Traditional responses to such threats have been reactive, with attempts to mitigate impacts through physical measures, or the establishment of protected areas. These approaches often have...
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Based on extensive interviews with informal importers and brokers in Cameroon, this paper explains why customs reform …
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in Cameroon. In 2008, World Bank staff successfully concluded preparation on a project to support the Government of … Cameroon to improve transparency, efficiency, and accountability of public finance management. The US$15 million project … concurrently, other Bank staff initiated a low-profile, technical assistance project to improve performance in Cameroon's Customs …
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The poor state of Cameroon's infrastructure is a key bottleneck to the nation's economic growth. From 2000 to 2005 …, improvements in information and communications technology (ICT) boosted Cameroon's growth performance by 1.26 percentage points per … capita, while deficient power infrastructure held growth back by 0.28 points per capita. If Cameroon could improve its …
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-Blinder approach to identify proximate factors that might explain differences in the distribution of economic welfare in Cameroon in …
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increased spending on infrastructure in six African countries: Benin, Cameroon, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda. The basic …
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The Government of Cameroon has declared poverty reduction through strong and sustainable economic growth the central … growth has been weakly pro-poor in Cameroon. There is therefore a need to re-examine and possibly reform the mechanisms …
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Cameroon case study, this paper demonstrates that investing uniformly in tarred roads in Africa is likely to have a much lower …-Saharan Africa. Using the second Cameroonian national household survey (Enquete Camerounaise Aupres des Menages II, 2001) and the … in Cameroon. The only impact is an indirect one in the access to labor activities. This paper reasserts the fact that …
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