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Despite the presumed importance of a strong state in the development process, there has been very little empirical work assessing the state’s ability to exercise power in isolated areas and understanding the means through which the state exerts that power. This paper begins to fill this gap in...
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Africa will account for 80 percent of the projected 4 billion increase in the global population by 2100. The …
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Long-run trends in Africa’s well-being are provided on the basis of a new index of human development, alternative to … experienced in other developing regions. Within Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa has fallen steadily behind the North since mid-20th …
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Long-run trends in Africa’s well-being are provided on the basis of a new index of human development, alternative to … experienced in other developing regions. Within Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa has fallen steadily behind the North since mid-20th …
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Long-run trends in Africa’s well-being are provided on the basis of a new index of human development, alternative to … experienced in other developing regions. Within Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa has fallen steadily behind the North since mid-20th …
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examine the characteristics and the key determinants of female employment in Africa. Our empirical estimates, using available … cross-sectional data over the period, 1991 and 2009 suggest that in the all-Africa estimation, quadratic levels of real per … democracy, higher female to male population ratio, and being a net oil-exporting country tend to lower it. In Sub-Saharan Africa …
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Nation-building has long been seen as an important focus for postcolonial African governments. However, up until now there has been no empirical analysis of either the origins or consequences of these policies. Here we compile an original dataset measuring nine different types of nation-building...
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This paper investigates the impact of female employment on fertility in two urban contexts in sub-Saharan Africa: Dakar …
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actively pursued in Africa. The benefits of monetary union come from a more credible monetary policy, while the costs derive …
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