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our model applies. Drawing on the experiences of nations which have successfully transited from growth-inhibiting to … revolution or the threat of revolution, religion through it impact on human capital, international trade and entrepreneurship …
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This study tests for the stationarity of current account deficits for a sample of twenty six African countries. For this purpose, a new test advocated by Breuer, McNown and Wallace (2002) is employed which allows one to test for unit roots in heterogeneous panel datasets. This SURADF test...
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The West Asia/North Africa (WANA) region contains large areas with rainy winters and hot, dry summers. The social … diets of the region, compared with diets in the US, UK, France and Japan. Population growth has been rapid and many WANA …
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This paper confirms recent evidence of a positive impact of aid on growth and widens the scope of evaluation to a range … of outcomes including proximate sources of growth (e.g., physical and human capital), indicators of social welfare (e … coherent and favorable pattern of results emerges. Aid has over the past forty years stimulated growth, promoted structural …
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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 …. Government intervention in favour of industrialization in the 1960s-1970s resulted in the neglect of agriculture, poor growth …
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This paper is interested in explaining the causes of the simultaneous evolution between economic growth and informality … rate is above (below) a threshold of 1.3577, economic growth reduces (increases) informal economic sector. The corruption …, public and private agents to fight corruption, in view of decreasing the informal economic sector through economic growth. …
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China's and India's economic growth on sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, the arrival (or resurgence) of new important … then to promote African voices from various backgrounds to reflect Africa's heterogeneity. The introductory section … presents a summary of findings about the economic impact of the two Asian giants in SSA countries by Africa-based economists …
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China's and India's economic growth on sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, the arrival (or resurgence) of new important … then to promote African voices from various backgrounds to reflect Africa's heterogeneity. The introductory section … presents a summary of findings about the economic impact of the two Asian giants in SSA countries by Africa-based economists …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401173
The global financial crisis and the subsequent uneven recovery have underscored the need for Africa's resilience to … African Community (EAC) and the Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU) - suggests that deeper intra-regional, and in particular …
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In spite of natural resource endowment and recent growth performance, many countries in sub Saharan Africa still face … together in the deficit region. This presupposes the presence of the “twin deficits” in sub Saharan Africa. This study attempts … to provide an empirical relationship between the budget balance and trade balance in sub Saharan Africa using data from …
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