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development was established across all the infrastructure indicators except for the ICT indicator. Negative thresholds for … complementary policies are established for the African Infrastructure Development Index (AIDI) and the transport index while … positive thresholds are apparent for the electricity index and the water and sanitation infrastructure index (WSS). Accordingly …
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The need for gender inclusion was highlighted as the fifth sustainable development goal (SDG) (i.e. SDG5) and policies have been gearing towards attaining this objective and its subsequent effect on macroeconomic outcome. Equally, the demonstrated trend of infrastructures in Africa in terms of...
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order to reduce poverty and promote employment through commodity-based industrialization. How does infrastructure … state of infrastructure development in Africa stimulates structural change, understood as the development of the … manufacturing sector. After outlining the state of infrastructure quality in the region, and discussing some theoretical channels …
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The objective of this study is to evaluate: (i) the effects of infrastructures on CO2 emission and (ii) how trade openness and governance contribute to mitigating these effects. The results from the system GMM methodology for 36 African countries between the 2003-2019 period show that...
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order to reduce poverty and promote employment through commodity-based industrialization. How does infrastructure … state of infrastructure development in Africa stimulates structural change, understood as the development of the … manufacturing sector. After outlining the state of infrastructure quality in the region, and discussing some theoretical channels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223229
infrastructure before critically examining the situation of Africa in the light of pressing COVID-19 healthcare infrastructural needs …
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The objective of this study is to evaluate: (i) the effects of infrastructures on CO2 emission and (ii) how trade openness and governance contribute to mitigating these effects. The results from the system GMM methodology for 36 African countries between the 2003-2019 period show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013294512
This study investigates how governance and infrastructure modulate the effect of natural resource rents on economic … infrastructure threshold of 2.583 indicating that countries with governance and infrastructure level higher than these values tend to … infrastructure), the established thresholds are low and situated between the 5 th and the 10th percentiles. Countries identified …
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Given that challenges facing sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries on the issue of socioeconomic development have been identified as critical to strengthening the inherent link between governance and socioeconomic conditions, this study examines the interconnections between governance and SSA...
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This study examines the effects of the historical prevalence of infectious diseases on contemporary gender equality. Previous studies reveal the persistence of the effects of historical diseases on innovation, through the channel of culture. Drawing on the Parasite-Stress Theory, we propose a...
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