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Much African land currently has low productivity and has attracted investors purchasing (or leasing) land as a speculative option on higher future prices or productivity. If land deals are to be beneficial they need to induce productivity enhancing investments. Some of these will be publicly...
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pollution level. The study seeks to examine the pattern and nature of EKC in Africa and major income groups according to World … Bank classification comprising low income, lower middle income and upper middle income in Africa. In ensuring the … robustness of our study; the paper proceeded by ascertaining the nature of EKC in all fifty-three countries of Africa in order to …
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Much African land currently has low productivity and has attracted investors leasing land as a speculative option on higher future prices or productivity. To be beneficial land deals need to induce productivity enhancing investments. Some of these will be publicly provided (infrastructure,...
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The global food price crisis of 2007/08 raised fears about the impacts of higher and more volatile food prices for the poor in Zambia. Like in the past, the implementation of the strategies to deal with the rising food prices, especially for the staple crop maize were delayed due to ineffective...
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such a sustainable and equitable development strategy for Africa. It is necessary to reverse the trends in aid, and to …
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The CuveWaters project relates the alignment and implementation of innovative water technologies to an Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in the Cuvelai-Etosha-Basin, which lies in Central Northern Namibia. The aim here is to improve inhabitants’ living conditions by means of...
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This paper addresses two important economic issues for Africa: the contribution of national borders and ethnicity to … market segmentation in sub-Saharan Africa. We provide suggestive evidence that the primary mechanism behind the internal …
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, Namibia and South Africa have altered their legal regimes to give full control over the use of wildlife to the private owners …
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This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for … economy and exports of labour-intensive products are vital to boosting the demand for labour in Africa. Africa has some …
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Africa's improved growth performance over the last 15 years provides an opportunity for the continent to transit from … agriculture therein, and the pace of structural transformation in Africa over the last 50 years. The evolution has involved …-based strategies exemplified under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). …
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