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agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …
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Geography causes African countries to experience a ‘proximity gap’. To overcome this gap a ‘big push’ may be needed in infrastructure. The cross-border nature of such infrastructure requires regional cooperation in at least four issues: transport infrastructure, trade facilitation,...
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This paper outlines the impact of the global economic crisis on Africa. Recovery requires coordinated and consistent …
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In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development … Africa; (iii) describe the resurgence of technological start-up entrepreneurship in Africa and (iv) call for policy support …
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Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the highest growth rate in net international migration in the world. The reasons for this …
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In this paper, we study the crowdsourcing of innovation in Africa through a data science contest on an intermediated …. Contestants were surveyed on their motivations to take part and their perceptions about AI in Africa. In total, 614 contestants … deploying AI? What are the obstacles they perceive to the greater diffusion of AI in Africa? We conclude that crowdsourcing of …
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estimators and applying a battery of robustness checks. Industrialization in Africa is driven by historical legacies such as … and adoption of digital technologies are found to have an ambiguous relationship with industrialisation in Africa. The …
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The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … the best of our knowledge, that the productivity of rural non-farm enterprises in Africa has been studied in this way. …
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through … paper I set out the case for why Africa should industrialize. I then explore the opportunities and threats the 4IR pose for … Africa. Threats include job-losses and the re-shoring of manufacturing to advanced economies. Among the opportunities are …
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possible, and moreover that the contribution of manufacturing in Africa has been underestimated. As far as the future is …
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