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The Structure of Government Intervention in African Agriculture
Lopez, R.; Hathie, I. - In: Journal of Development Studies 37 (2000) 1, pp. 57-72
This article examines the determinants of various rates of agricultural subsidies (output, input, exchange rate distortions, and aggregate) using commodity-level data from eight African countries in the 1980s. Econometric results indicate that structural adjustment policies were more effective...
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Efficient Development Portfolio Design for Sub-Saharan Africa
Wiebe, Kirsten Svenja; Zon, Adriaan van - EcoMod Network - 2011
The Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (Stiglitz et al., 2009) published in September 2009 has brought back to the attention of policy makers and researchers that measuring a country’s development solely on the basis of GDP or GDP per capita...
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Resilience capacity of South countries with respect to the global economic crisis: an empirical comparative analysis of Sub-Saharan African and Latin American countries
Lessoua, Albert; Diaw, Diadié; Sokic, Alexandre; … - EcoMod Network - 2013
to external shocks. The analysis particularly considers the countries of Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Although … these two groups of countries. The objective is to test the resilience of Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa countries … Salama, 2010). Theoretically, many factors may justify the vulnerability of economies of Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America …
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Program on Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems and Support Services. Phase II. Vol.7 - Lift irrigation in West Africa: challenges for sustainable local management. Final report
International Water Management Institute (IWMI); … - 1994
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Les Constitutions des États africains d'expression française
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Emerging trends and concerns in the economic diplomacy of African states
Mudida, Robert - In: International Journal of Diplomacy and Economy 1 (2012) 1, pp. 95-109
such as China, India and Brazil and also a strong impetus towards greater economic integration within Africa. The renewed … create a great economic interest in Africa by both Western and non-Western states that have sought to engage African …
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The Soviet Union, China and the West in Southern Africa
Legum, Colin - In: Foreign affairs 54 (1976) 4, pp. 745-762
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Demographic trends in Sub-Saharan Africa
van de Walle, Etienne; Kekovole, John - 1986
Cameroon; and child mortality in North Sudan and Senegal. Overall mortality levels are high in Western and Central Africa and …The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size … that fertility has increased in some countries--Kenya and Cameroon; has remained almost stable in Benin, Ivory Coast and …
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Ecological tax reform initiatives in Africa
Kerckhoven, Sven Van; Bécault, Emilie; Marx, Axel - In: International Journal of Green Economics 9 (2015) 1, pp. 58-76
, Senegal, Uganda and South Africa. Data on environmental taxes was collected through various sources. The aim of this paper is …
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