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Despite the growing public debate on fiscal surprise during election periods in jurisdictions where the democratic dispensation is young, comprehensive empirical works to this effect in the case of Africa are hard to find. This study, therefore, sought to contribute to the debate on two counts....
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This paper forwards the view that some aspects of African culture enhance economic development on the continent while … other aspects tend to constrain development. By drawing on the extant literature on culture and development, the paper … processes on their overall development. We argue that insight into the development-constraining attributes of African culture …
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This study investigates: (i) the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP) and economic growth dynamics, and (ii) the relevance of value added from three economic sectors in modulating the established effect of FDI on TFP and economic growth dynamics. The...
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networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …
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networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior-to-coast roads are at least in part the result of …
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