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Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...

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Three Essays in Empirical and Experimental Development Economics: Pro-social Behavior, Monitoring of Development-Linked Public Goods and Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Modernization and the fertility transition, Egypt, 1975

Issa, Mahmoud S. Abdou - 1980

This study investigates regional marital fertility differentials in Egypt and their relationship to the level of modernization of the region: defined as economic development and social and cultural change. The intermediate variables (Davis and Blake, 1965) underlying these regional levels and...

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Exploring the link between aid and economic growth : an African perspective

Khampha, Avhatakali Tshifaro - 2007

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It is a fact that development aid represents the single most important source of external finance for most developing countries. This study sought to answer an important question relating to whether aid has a positive impact on economic growth or not. There is much literature...

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The impact of policy reversal on economic performance in Sub-Saharan Africa

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The economic impact of HIV/AIDS on small, medium and large enterprises

Ellis L.L. - 2006

Based on the Bureau of Economic Research (BER's) 2005 HIV/AIDS survey, this paper provides a snapshot view of the nature and the extent of the impact of HIV/AIDS on companies of different sizes in South Africa, as well as their response to the epidemic. Whereas the focus of most of the previous...

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Trade finance as a barrier to SME internationalisation: special reference to African trade with China / Y. van Heerden

Van Heerden, Yvette - 2010

involved with their international transactions) is structured trade and commodity finance. In trading with China, African SMEs … market (which is the focus of this study). China Construction Bank (Johannesburg branch), through their association with Rand … commodity finance is that these SMEs, together with China Construction Bank (Jhb) and Rand-Asia Trade Finance have to mitigate …

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