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Kenyan Supermarkets and Horticultural Farm Sector Development
Neven, David; Reardon, Thomas - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
In Kenya, supermarkets have grown from a tiny n iche at the start of the 1990s to 20% of the urban food retail sector in 2003. Furthermore, Kenyan supermarket chains are increasingly sourcing from global markets and have started to expand their store network in the wider East Africa region....
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A Colonial Legacy of African Gender Inequality? Evidence from Christian Kampala, 1895-2011
Meier zu Selhausen, Felix; Weisdorf, Jacob - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
The colonial legacy of African underdevelopment is widely debated but hard to document. We use occupational statistics from Protestant marriage registers of historical Kampala to investigate the hypothesis that African gender inequality and female disempowerment are rooted in colonial times. We...
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Social Network Analysis and informal trade
Walther, Olivier - Institut for Grænseregionsforskning, Syddansk Universitet - 2015
The objective of this article is to show how a formal approach to social networks can be applied to better understand informal trade in developing countries, with a particular focus on Africa. The paper starts by discussing some of the fundamental concepts developed by social network analysis....
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The Questionable Economics of Development Assistance in Africa: Hot-Fresh Evidence, 1996–2010
Asongu, Simplice - In: The Review of Black Political Economy 41 (2014) 4, pp. 455-480
<Para ID="Par1">This paper assesses the aid-development nexus in 52 African countries using updated data (1996 …–2010) and a new indicator of human development (adjusted for inequality). The effects of Total Net Official Development … Assistance (NODA), NODA from the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and NODA from Multilateral donors on economic prosperity …
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On the channels of foreign aid to corruption
Asongu, Simplice A; Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
’ in its current state has the shortcoming of modeling corruption as a direct effect of development assistance. This note …’s consumption expenditure increases corruption. (2) Development assistance channeled via private investment and tax effort decreases …
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Development thresholds of foreign aid effectiveness in Africa
Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
development matter in the impact of aid on development. In substance its object is to assess if threshold development conditions … technique enables us to investigate if the relationship between development dynamics and development assistance differs … throughout the distributions of development dynamics. Findings – Two main findings are established. (1) The effectiveness of aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258353
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Market Share of Faith-inspired Health Care Providers in Africa: Comparing Facilities and Multi-purpose Integrated Household Survey Data
Olivier, Jill; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper relies on facilities and household survey data to estimate the ‘market share’ of faith-inspired institutions (FIIs) in the provision of health care services in Africa. While estimates based on facilities data, especially for hospitals, often suggest that the market share of FIIs...
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On the effectiveness of foreign aid in institutional quality
Asongu, Simplice A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
institutional quality such that, the institutional downside of development assistance maybe questionable when greater domestic … institutional development has taken place. Based on the hypothesis of institutional thresholds for foreign aid effectiveness, the … perilous character of development assistance to institutional quality is broadly confirmed in 53 African countries for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258764
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Increased funding for AIDS-engaged (faith-based) civil society organizations in Africa?
Olivier, Jill; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper considers the evidence on the comparative extent to which faith-based civil society organizations (FB-CSOs) have benefited from increased funding related to the HIV/AIDS response in Africa. First, we review the literature on whether FB-CSOs have benefited from such funding, and find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259281
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African Development,Partnership and Rationality Challenge:An Exposition
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...
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