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Efficient Provision of High-Quality Early Childhood Education: Does the Private Sector or Public Sector Do It Best?

Blau, David; Currie, Janet - In: CESifo DICE Report 6 (2008) 2, pp. 15-20

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Public versus private University Systems

Psacharopoulos, George - In: CESifo DICE Report 2 (2004) 4, pp. 39-43

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The Private Sector as Culprit and Victim of Corruption in Africa

Ndikumana, Léonce - Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University … - 2013

victims of corruption. This paper examines the symptoms and impacts of private sector corruption in Africa, from the … multinational corporations operating in Africa. The consequences of private sector corruption and synergies between private sector …

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Scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition

Linn, Johannes F. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

Taking successful development interventions to scale is critical if the world is to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and make essential gains in the fight for improved agricultural productivity, rural incomes, and nutrition. How to support scaling up in these three areas, however, is a...

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The triangle of microfinance: Financial sustainability, outreach, and impact

Zeller, Manfred (contributor); Meyer, Richard L. (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

The initial success of microfinance programs in the 1970s led pioneers to think that many essential problems of the poor might be resolved by access to credit alone -- the ability to acquire assets, to start businesses, to finance emergency needs and to insure against illness and disaster. Part...

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Varieties of capitalists? The middle class, private sector and economic outcomes in Africa

Handley, Antoinette - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

Political scientists have generally seen two key features of African political economies.a relatively small or absent middle class, and a middle class that is unusually embedded in the state.as key explanations of the troubled political and economic traje

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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...

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Aid and Infrastructure Financing: Emerging challenges with a focus on Africa

Addison, Tony; Anand, P. B. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

, especially in Africa, the role of foreign aid in the future should be distinctly different. While aid will be required to …

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Business Environment and Comparative Advantage in Africa: Evidence from the Investment Climate Data

Eifert, Benn; Gelb, Alan; Ramachandran, Vijaya - 2005

sectors. Macroeconomic data from purchasing power parity (PPP), though imprecisely measured, estimates confirms that Africa is …-economy perspective on the prospects for reform of Africa’s business climate, considering African attitudes to business and the fractured … productivity and a greater propensity to export; however, Africa’s difficult business climate and the tendency to overcome this by …

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Incentives and Support Systems to Foster Private Sector Innovation

Sheehan, Jerry - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

This presentation discusses the use of incentives to foster innovation in the private sector. It includes a discussion of supporting and funding R&D in the business sector; the use of tax incentives for R&D; and a comparison of other financing instruments. This presentation was presented at the...

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