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crisis slowdown, Sub-Saharan Africa is in dire need to continue the growth momentum it experienced during the period of the … Africa Rising narrative. An emerging consensus in the empirical literature is that, under the right circumstances, an … development in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past decades along four sectors (telecommunications, electric power, transportation …
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mismanaged. The impacts appear to come from community members increasing their monitoring of local projects, making more …
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Since income is the return on wealth, the total wealth of any given country should be on the order of 20 times its gross domestic product. Instead the average observed ratio from the balance sheet accounts of the System of National Accounts is a factor of 2.6 to 6.6, depending on whether natural...
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Paying for performance provides financial rewards to medical care providers for improvements in performance measured by specific utilization and quality of care indicators. In 2006, Rwanda began a paying for performance scheme to improve health services delivery, including HIV/AIDS services....
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Many different strategies have been proposed to improve the delivery of health care services, from capacity building to establishing new payment mechanisms. Recent attention has also asked whether improvements in the way health care services are governed could make a difference. These approaches...
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A good understanding of the constraints on agricultural growth in Africa relies on the accurate measurement of …
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integration within the South Africa Customs Union (SACU) sub-region with attendant consequences for the long-term growth of …
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This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … socioeconomic development in Africa …
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Data from the Groningen Growth and Development Center's Africa Sector Database and the Demographic and Health Surveys … reveals that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction has been associated with a substantive decline in the share … shifts in employment shares for future growth and development in Africa south of the Sahara …
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service delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa. They also provide a lens through which the growing experimental and quasi …
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