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“Human Quality Treatment”: Five Organizational Levels
Melé, Domènec - In: Journal of Business Ethics 120 (2014) 4, pp. 457-471
their human dignity and rights, caring for their problems and legitimate interests, and fostering their personal development …) development (favoring human flourishing, mutual esteem, and friendship-based reciprocity). Copyright Springer Science …
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Does Openness Matter for Financial Development in Africa?
David, Antonio; Mlachila, Montfort; Moheeput, Ashwin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
This paper analyzes the links between financial and trade openness and financial development in Sub-Saharan African … a general direct robust link between trade and capital account openness and financial development in SSA, once we … important for financial development in countries with better institutional quality. The findings might be due to a number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790350
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Climate Change and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Literature Review
Thompson, Heather E.; Berrang-Ford, Lea; Ford, James D. - In: Sustainability 2 (2010) 8, pp. 2719-2733
is linked to issues of development, whereby adaptation is essential to counteract the negative impacts and improve the … potential of the population to undergo development processes. Findings additionally revealed a gap in the literature about how …
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Aid and Development: Issues and Reflections
Michael, Tribe - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2013
development-oriented investment. The second questions some of the characteristics and uses of the World Bank’s Country Policy and … third subjects the UK Department for International Development’s Needs-Effectiveness Index to critical review, concluding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010722682
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EU Development Aid towards Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the Normative Principle
Bountagkidis, Georgios K.; Fragkos, Konstantinos C.; … - In: Social Sciences 4 (2015) 1, pp. 85-116
social development. However, how well the EU’s rhetoric is consistent with its practices as a multilateral development actor … has not been explored extensively. In this study, we challenge the normative dimension of the EU’s development policy and … explore whether the EU’s Official Development Assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa is based on objective deprivation on the part …
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The extractive industries and development in sub-Saharan Africa: An introduction
Hilson, Gavin - In: Resources Policy 40 (2014) C, pp. 1-3
This paper introduces a special issue on the extractive industries and development in sub-Saharan Africa. The special … issue draws attention to the potential for the region׳s extractive industries to deliver much-needed development and the …-based development strategies for the region. …
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Urban economies, urban livelihoods and natural resource-based economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa: The constraints of a liberalized world economy
Potts, Deborah - In: Local Economy 28 (2013) 2, pp. 170-187
There is much speculation today about how rapid economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa is transforming development … countries. It also reviews the evidence about the distribution of incomes in sub-Saharan Africa, and argues that the development … African urban economic development and growth. …
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Growth and population dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa
Chevallier, Agnès; Goff, Maëlan Le - In: Panorama du CEPII (2014) 3
2000’s were marked by the return to growth in most of sub-Saharan African countries. However, their GDP per capita levels remain significantly lower than in other developing countries and the effect of growth on poverty is very small. At the same time, sub-Saharan Africa has the fastest...
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Women’s Empowerment and HIV Prevention in Rural Malawi
Gerritzen, Berit C. - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2012
Condom use and communication among sexual partners are important strategies for HIV prevention. Using a panel data set of more than 1,200 married women in rural Malawi from 1998-2008, this paper shows that adequate HIV prevention strategies, i.e. condom use within marriage and HIV-related...
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THE DEVELOPMENT EFFECTS OF NATURAL RESOURCES: A GEOGRAPHICAL DIMENSION
Carmignani, Fabrizio; Chowdhury, Abdur - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2011
Despite the recent growth resurgence, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains the poorest region in the world. At the same time, it is a region that heavily relies on natural resources. In this paper we investigate the extent to which the second fact helps explain the first one. The distinctive feature...
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