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The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size … Lesotho; and has slightly declined in Ghana. The underlying factors with regard to the apparent increase hinge on the … Cameroon; and child mortality in North Sudan and Senegal. Overall mortality levels are high in Western and Central Africa and …
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The Ghana cocoa market has been extensively liberalised over the period since the mid 1980s. Three issues have been … occurred. In this paper we investigate these issues by estimating a production function for cocoa in Ghana drawing on two …
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panel data set of firms in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania that spans a period of five years. We find that the main determinant of … growth of firms in Africa. We find no evidence that larger firms have faster rates of productivity or input growth, or are …
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Africa. By overcoming the difficulties in obtaining trade finance, African SMEs will be able to expand into foreign markets …
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The increasing casualisation of labour forces trade unions globally to deal with a growing number of unprotected and unrepresented workers in what is dubbed by the unions, even if critically, as the informal economy. This paper assesses the impact and further potential of a direct and indirect...
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Zur Rekonstruktion der jungquartären Landschaftsentwicklung am Kilimanjaro werden Sedimente aus Paläoböden am Mt Kilimanjaro untersucht, um die lokale und regionale Ökosystem-, Klima-, Feuerdynamik in einem größeren Rahmen zu verstehen. Desweiteren soll die Reaktion der Ökosysteme auf...
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empirical research on the relation between urbanization and GDP in China, and also implements a comparative analysis to the … relation between three industries and degree of urbanization, the related coeffecient is 0.97, 0.95, 0.97, 0.97. And the result … shows a long-term balance between these two factors, and the promoting effect to tertiary industry by urbanization is more …
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"The ability of agent-based models (ABMs) to represent heterogeneity in the characteristics and behaviors of actors enables analyses about the implications of this heterogeneity for system behavior. The importance of heterogeneity in the specification of ABMs, however, creates new demands for...
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