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This study investigated two key questions: what is the impact of industrialisation on urbanisation in Africa? and to … what extent does financial development affect this industrialisation- urbanisation nexus? To elicit answers to these … panel estimator. The findings showed that industrialisation had positive and significant effects on urbanisation. Further …
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paper examines the impact of the coronavirus on Sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses how the deeply rooted structural weaknesses …, the paper emphasises how this crisis not only risks leading Africa’s economies to a sharp decrease in income growth but …, making a recovery extremely difficult. Governments in Africa need to swiftly implement measures to address long …
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transformation in Africa, focusing on sectoral output shares, sectoral employment shares, and the relative labour productivity of … sectors. We find that Africa is gradually advancing towards structural transformation but at a very slow speed. The empirical …
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Whereas the impact of Brexit on Anglophone Africa was a major issue in the controversial British discussions on the … pros and cons of Brexit, possible repercussions on French-speaking Africa have been rarely mentioned up to now. Yet, the … range of possible Brexit effect is impressive, including the revival of progressive social networks in Francophone Africa …
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about Brexit. The article analyses five issues at stake for the Post-Brexit relationships between Britain, the EU and Africa … with a focus on the Commonwealth Sub-Saharan Africa: market access, FDI, aid, security and partnership . The British … likely this would be possible only at the expense of the poor in Africa and elsewhere. Concerning security cooperation with …
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The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation in a panel of 49 African countries … persistence in industrialisation and (iii) Instrumental Quantile Regressions (QR) to account for initial levels of … industrialisation. The non-interactive specification elucidates direct effects of remittances on industrialisation whereas interactive …
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The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation us ing a panel of 49 African … persistence in industrialisation and (iii) Instrumental Quantile Regressions (QR) to account for initial levels of … industrialisation. The non-interactive specification elucidates direct effects of remittances on industrialisation whereas interactive …
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economic growth in West Africa. Design/methodology/approach - The study uses the dynamic fixed effects technique on the … validity of the supply-leading hypothesis in West Africa. As such, by deepening the financial system, the growth of the … the first to jointly examine these important growth determinants, especially in the context of West Africa. This becomes …
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