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carried out between 1975-2005 in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Making a distinction between the successful projects and …
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GDP growth is often measured poorly for countries and rarely measured at all for cities. We propose a readily available proxy: satellite data on lights at night. Our statistical framework uses light growth to supplement existing income growth measures. The framework is applied to countries with...
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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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African countries. Thus, any policy initiative targeted towards poverty reduction in Africa should consider the agricultural ….5 per cent, and humanitarian 11.9 per cent. Using secondary data and country-case studies from Africa, the study …
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high priority. Both volume and share of aid earmarked for agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa not only remained low, around …
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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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In the late 1990s, as economists looked back the development period in Africa since 1970s, they put forward the notion … “African growth tragedy” , meaning that Africa's poor growth and resulting low income is associated with low schooling …
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pollution level. This 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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Since 2000s, Africa and India severally rejected the notion that UPOV's 1991 standard of Plant Breeders Rights (PBRs …. Consequently, under the African Union's (AU) auspices, Africa proposed the Model Law for the Protection of the Rights of Local … resources within then emergent international regimes. Nearly two decades after, Africa's resolve has proven to be fickle. The …
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