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The paper reviews the dynamics of the financing baseed its analysis on the rich dataset of AidData ranging over 1993-2010, with around 9,077 observations on projects funded in Senegal by various multilateral as well as bilateral donors. The study started in the same year as the establishment of...
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The impacts of European agricultural and trade policies on agricultural development and food security in Africa are … agricultural trade flows between the EU and Africa as a whole and in the context of case studies on meat and milk; (iii) a …; and (iv) model simulations of the effects of possible reform projects on production in and trade flows with Africa. The …
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Invasive exotic species are a reality in all ecosystems. These biological invaders disrupt ecological patterns and cause billions of dollars in economic damage. Justifiably, governments are stepping up their response. However, while many invaders are considered unmitigated ecological disasters,...
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The 2009 Africa Mining Vision (AMV) provides guidance for the industrialization of African countries by leveraging … policy for Africa, including through the increased extraction of minerals needed in clean energy application and the greening …
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Corruption is one of the world's most widespread political problems. It can be found on international, national and sub-national level. Access to education and other socio-economic services is of utmost importance for all humans. It is still not exclusively based on merit, but often rather...
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inequality in order to measure their impact on democraty in Africa. More precisely, we use the dynamic panel GMM-system technique …
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Conventional wisdom proposes deep historical roots for authoritarianism in Africa: either colonial “decentralized …
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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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poverty alleviation in Africa. It also examines various options for biofuels development and its potential roles to improve or …
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