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Globalization and female labor force participation in developing countries : an empirical (re-)assessment
Cooray, Arusha; Gaddis, Isis; Wacker, Konstantin - 2012
We investigate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade, as two measures of globalization, on female labor force participation in a sample of 80 developing countries over the last decades. Contrary to the mainstream view in the literature, which is mainly based on country-case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358648
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Dynamic Linkages and Granger Causality between Trade and Budget Deficits : Evidence from Africa
Malindretos, John; Arize, Augustine C. - 2010
This paper provides new evidence on the long-run relationship between trade and budget deficits in ten African countries over the quarterly period 1973:2 - 2005:4. Cointegration analyses are based on four approaches: Harris-Inder (1994), Shin (1994), Geweke and Porter-Hudak (1983) and Sowell...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199220
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The Day After Comrade Bob : Applying Post-Conflict Reconstruction Lessons to Zimbabwe
Moss, Todd J. - 2007
Zimbabwe is a country on the edge. It may technically be at peace, but it is suffering war-like trauma to its polity … Zimbabwe's political structure and economy by providing technical and legal assistance, sending immediate food aid, helping to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012730163
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The Expansion of Regional Supermarket Chains and Implications For Local Suppliers : A Comparison of Findings From South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Das Nair, Reena - 2017
paper is a synthesis of key findings of studies undertaken in Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe on the expansion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962360
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The Expansion of Regional Supermarket Chains : Changing Models of Retailing and the Implications for Local Supplier Capabilities in South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Das Nair, Reena - 2017
Over the past two decades, southern African countries have experienced rapid growth in the number and spread of supermarkets. Several factors have been attributed to this growth, including increasing urbanization, increased per capita income, the rise of the middle class, economies of scale and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962363
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The expansion of regional supermarket chains and implications for local suppliers : a comparison of findings from South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Das Nair, Reena; Chisoro, Shingie - 2016
paper is a synthesis of key findings of studies undertaken in Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe on the expansion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582501
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Export controls and competitiveness in African mining and minerals processing industries
Fliess, Barbara A.; Idsardi, Ernst; Rossouw, Riaan - 2017
in Zambia and chromite in Zimbabwe. For the empirical analysis the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) index is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695370
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Do large employers pay more in developing countries? : the case of five African countries
Strobl, Eric; Thornton, Robert J. - 2002
Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415323
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Measuring Institutions : Indicators of Political Rights, Property Rights and Political Instability in Zimbabwe
Fedderke, Johannes W.; Gwenhamo, Farayi; De Kadt, Raphael - 2011
The current, persistent growth problem in Zimbabwe is often attributed to poor economic and political institutional … Zimbabwe covering the period 1946 to 2005. While the new indices span for a significantly longer time period, they are highly … contributes towards understanding the institutional dimension of Zimbabwe's persistent economic decline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014183395
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The care connection : the World Bank and women's unpaid care work in select sub- Saharan African countries
Bibler, Sarah; Zuckerman, Elaine - 2013
With the aim of reducing women's greater unpaid care work than men&'s and increasing women's paid employment, this paper examines the extent to which World Bank investments address unpaid care work. The paper conducts an in-depth gender analysis of 36 World Bank employment-related projects in...
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