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Aid providers frequently link supporting small firms to job creation. Small firms create about half of new jobs in Africa, but they also have higher failure rates. Ignoring firm exit exaggerates net employment growth. Using panel data for Ethiopia, we find that small and large enterprises create...
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The media narratives with respect to EU external policies and their effects on developing countries generally paint a picture of unequal power dynamics and negative externalities, particularly with respect to international trade and land grabbing. In this paper, I use trade data to argue that...
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This study evaluates the economic impact of severe natural disasters in Africa using the generalized synthetic control method. In other words, it assesses how gross domestic product (GDP) would have been affected if severe natural disasters did not occur. Moreover, it explores the determinants...
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This study evaluates the economic impact of severe natural disasters in Africa using the generalized synthetic control method. In other words, it assesses how gross domestic product (GDP) would have been affected if severe natural disasters did not occur. Moreover, it explores the determinants...
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agenda are the issues on disaster management. This study examined the effect of disaster-risk management on sustainable … using Ordinary Least Square (OLS), since the data were cross-sectional in nature. The result showed that disaster … not significant. We therefore recommended that effective disaster management should not only directly apply to African …
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coping responses to disasters, matching data on disaster locations with individual-level survey data from over 150 … temporal distances to disaster events, we find that disaster exposure is associated with increased economic vulnerabilities … and higher perceptions of government corruption in disaster-affected areas. Our analysis of coping responses suggests that …
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