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dropped substantially in all regions with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa. We assess if poverty is in the African gene by … revisiting the findings of Ashraf and Galor (2013, AER) and reformulating the ‘Out of Africa Hypothesis' into a ‘Genetic … Diversity Hypothesis' for a ‘Within Africa Analysis'. We motivate this reformulation with five shortcomings arising for the most …
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The use of evolutionary and institutional economics in the analysis of increasing returns, transaction costs, and agglomeration and network effects is important because of their determining impacts on the processes of trade, growth and development. Institutional analysis facilitates definition...
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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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The study assesses how financial institution dynamics have affected poverty and the severity of poverty in 42 sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1980-2019. In order to increase for policy relevance of the study, three financial development indicators are used, namely: financial...
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Growth improved substantially in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since 1990, but poverty in SSA as a whole …
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demonstrate, linking our analysis to the Millennium Development Goals 2015, how social entrepreneurship has a pivotal role in … facilitating Africans as brand Africa, to be the principle drivers of their own sustainable development, through knowledge and …
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The present study investigates the incidence of financial institutions' dynamics of depth and access in the effect of income inequality on poverty and the severity of poverty in 42 Sub-Saharan African countries from 1980 to 2019. The Gini index is used to measure income inequality while poverty...
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The concept of social entrepreneurship as a characterization of social responsibility for business organizations has … segment of the society. Yet, there is no consensus within these communities as to what constitutes social entrepreneurship …
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