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Unlocking Private Sector Investment for Low-Carbon Transition in South Africa : Assessing Investment Climate for Climate Investments

World Bank Group - 2019

Just energy transition is key to South Africa's inclusive and sustainable growth. It is necessary to unlock large pools of private capital and attract foreign investment to drive low-carbon transition. Despite downside risks, South Africa has strong macroeconomic fundamentals and commitment to...

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An Investment Perspective on Global Value Chains

Qiang, Christine Zhenwei - 2021

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Regional Investment Pioneers in South Asia : The Payoff of Knowing Your Neighbors

Kathuria, Sanjay - 2021

Regional economic engagement within South Asia may gain increasing importance owing to several factors that are currently in play, including strategies to diversify global value chains and locate such value chains nearer home. These developments offer South Asia a chance to enhance its low...

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Keynes and Australia

Markwell, Donald J - Reserve Bank of Australia - 2000

JM Keynes was more important to Australia than Australia was to him. Yet the connections are many and varied, and worthy of some attention. As has been said, ‘a survey of the rise and fall of Keynesian economics in Australia’ is ‘an important story which still has to be written’; but it...

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Factors determining FDI in Nigeria: an empirical investigation

Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper investigates the recent surge of FDI in Nigeria, which is poor in terms of income but rich in natural … resources. This study examines empirically whether FDI is resource seeking in Nigeria and its determining factors. Applying time … series technique this paper observes that FDI flow to Nigeria is resource-seeking FDI during 1970-2006. In long run, the …

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The laffer curve and the debt-growth link in low-income Sub-Saharan African economies

Megersa, kelbesa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The study of the link between debt and growth has been full of debates, both in theory and empirics. However, there is a growing consensus that the relationship is sensitive to the level of debt. Our paper tries to address the question of non linearity in the long term relationship between...

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Esclavagisme et colonisation : Quelles conséquences contemporaines en Afrique ? - Résumé critique des travaux de l'économiste Nathan Nunn

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This article aims to highlight the first work of economist Nathan Nunn on slavery and colonization. Indeed, for the latter, these two historical facts, quantifiable consequences, have defined the path of economic development of African countries. Secondly, this paper discusses the findings of...

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Education as a driver of income inequality in twentieth-century Africa

Van Leeuwen, Bas; van Leeuwen-Li, Jieli; Foldvari, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In this paper, we address the issue of how education affected income inequality in twentieth-century Africa. Three channels are identified through which education may affect income inequality. First, an increase in the average educational level is correlated with an increase in average income,...

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The fall of the elephant. Two decades of poverty increase in Côte d’Ivoire (1988 - 2008)

Houngbedji, Kenneth; Cogneau, Denis; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

At the end of 1980s, Côte d’Ivoire entered a deep macroeconomic crisis that put an end to the often praised "Ivorian miracle". After the death of the founding father Houphouët-Boigny, unrestrained political competition added to bad economic conditions and led to the nightmare of civil war....

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The fall of the elephant. Two decades of poverty increase in Côte d’Ivoire (1988-2008)

Cogneau, Denis; Houngbedji, Kenneth; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014

At the end of the 1980s, Côte d’Ivoire entered a deep macroeconomic crisis that put an end to the often-praised ‘Ivorian miracle’. After the death of the founding father Houphouet-Boigny, unrestrained political competition added to bad economic conditions and led to the nightmare of civil...

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