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African development; (ii) income distribution, inequality, and poverty; and (iii) economic structure, interdependence, and …
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fronts. This is increasingly evident because China's economic diplomacy has been politely and strategically coined to achieve … just that. A case study is used here to articulate the currents of the survey. The paper puts some structure on China …'s economic diplomatic strategies and discusses lessons for Africa, China and the West. It contributes to existing literature by …
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countries. We construct measures of ethnic inequality combining ethnolinguistic maps on the spatial distribution of groups with … satellite images of light density at night. Ethnic inequality is strongly inversely related to per capita income; this pattern … holds when we condition on the overall degree of spatial inequality -that is also associated with underdevelopment. We …
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In this study, we assess the inclusiveness of growth by tracking the yearly percentage change in the household consumption of individuals over different growth spells in Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania. With cross-sectional data, we track the consumption of groups of individuals that share...
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empirical evidence is based on the generalised method of moments. To make this assessment, inequality dynamics (i.e. the Gini … establish inequality levels that should not be exceeded in order for tourism to promote financial access in the sampled … countries. From the findings, inequality levels that should not be exceeded for tourism to promote financial access are provided …
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The aim of this paper is to investigate policy instruments by which the persistence of inequality is affected through … financial depth and financial stability are the best channels of reducing inequality. Moreover, the relevance of these financial … governance dynamics in the persistence of inequality is discussed. The study responds to two recent policy and scholarly …
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Despite recent improvements in economic performance, undernutrition rates in Africa appear to have improved much less and rather inconsistently across the continent. We examine to what extent there is an empirical linkage between income growth and reductions of child undernutrition in Africa. We...
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The differences between mainstream and 'heterodox' theories and policies have become increasingly blurred, and this dynamic has also affected heterodox analyses of development. Being trapped by the primacy of the statistics-based methodological imperative, much heterodox thinking on development...
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The aggregate economic impact of any developmental project depends on its effects within the chosen administrative region as well as its economic spillovers into other regions. However, little is known about how these spillovers propagate through geographic, ethnic and road networks. In this...
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In recent years, the private sector has been recognized as a key engine of Africa's economic development. Yet, the most simple and fundamental question remains unanswered: how large is the African private sector? We present novel estimates of the size of the private sector in 50 African...
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