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Demographic trends in Sub-Saharan Africa
van de Walle, Etienne; Kekovole, John - 1986
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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Production changes in Ghana cocoa farming households under market reforms
Teal, Francis; Vigneri, Marcella - 2004
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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Survival and success among African manufacturing firms
Harding, Alan; Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis - 2004
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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Trade finance as a barrier to SME internationalisation: special reference to African trade with China / Y. van Heerden
Van Heerden, Yvette - 2010
Africa. By overcoming the difficulties in obtaining trade finance, African SMEs will be able to expand into foreign markets …
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Trade unions and the informal economy in Zambia: Building strength or loosing ground?
Heidenreich, Georg; Heidenreich, Georg - 2007
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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Studies on late Quaternary environmental dynamics (vegetation, biodiversity, climate, soils, fire and human impact) on Mt Kilimanjaro
Schüler, Lisa - 2013
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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The Future of the Rhode Island Economy
LeShane, James C. - 2010
No one would argue that the economy in the United States has been faltering in recent years; due in part to global factors, and even with stimulus plans offered by the Federal Government, there is increased burden on states to find forms of revenue. More and more, states must compete not only...
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Politische Ökonomik der Staatsverschuldung : Erklärungsmodelle und ihre empirische Überprüfung
Weisser, Stephan - 2006
Die Staatsverschuldung vieler industrialisierter Länder hat seit Anfang der siebziger Jahre drastisch zugenommen. Zwar waren die meisten Länderhaushalte in der Zeit vom Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs bis in die frühen siebziger Jahre durch eine deutliche Abnahme der Staatsverschuldung...
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