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allocation of present-day World Bank aid at the grid-cell level in Africa. The correlation is robust to an extensive set of …
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This paper analyzes and compares the structure of cotton by-products industries in se-lected countries (Uganda, Tanzania, Benin, and Burkina Faso) in the context of the global vegetable oil market. It reaches several conclusions. First, because the markets for various edible oils are highly...
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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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, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, this process is accompanied by a change in land tenure, whereby plots held under traditional …
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In this paper, Arbache, Go, and Page examine the recent acceleration of growth in Africa. Unlike the past, the …
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) International Comparison Program (ICP) results. The World Bank's global poverty count uses a common international poverty line …
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This paper studies the cyclical aspects of fiscal policy in Sub-Saharan Africa countries during 1970?2014. It compares … since 2002 in Sub-Saharan Africa, with incipient signs of a shift toward acyclical or more countercyclical policies. The …-Saharan Africa. Official development assistance is found to exacerbate the procyclical stance of fiscal policy in the region, but the …
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three late-bloomers in East Africa offsetting the boom-bust pattern in Southern Africa and the never-significant response in … Central and Western Africa. Firm-level customs data for selected countries reveal that even in East Africa, the recent export …
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