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Development and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa
Addison, Tony; Pikkarainen, Ville; Rönkkö, Risto; … - 2017
This paper puts sub-Saharan Africa's economic development into perspective. While much did not go as hoped for at independence, much of the region has been on a more promising development trajectory since the mid-1990s, as we illustrate using growth, poverty, and human development indicators. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777012
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Gendered perspectives on economic growth and development in sub-Saharan Africa
Seguino, Stephanie; Were, Maureen - 2014
Researchers have linked sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) poor growth performance in recent decades to several factors, including geography, institutions, and low returns to investment. This literature has not yet integrated the research that identifies linkages between gender, economic development,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251669
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Learning inequalities during COVID-19 : evidence from longitudinal surveys from sub-Saharan Africa
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Oseni, Gbemisola; Zezza, Alberto; … - 2022
There is hardly any study on learning inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic in a low-income, multi-country context. Analyzing 34 longitudinal household and phone survey rounds from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda, we find that while countries exhibit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013448162
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Learning inequalities during COVID-19 : evidence from longitudinal surveys from Sub-Saharan Africa
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Oseni, Gbemisola; Zezza, Alberto; … - 2022
There is hardly any study on learning inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic in a low-income, multi-country context. Analyzing 34 longitudinal household and phone survey rounds from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda, we find that while countries exhibit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013433694
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Do Large Employers Pay More in Developing Countries? The Case of Five African Countries
Strobl, Eric; Thornton, Robert - 2003
Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262237
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The Day After Comrade Bob: Applying Post-Conflict Reconstruction Lessons to Zimbabwe
Moss, Todd; Patrick, Stewart - 2005
Zimbabwe is a country in deep economic and political crisis, but also one whose situation could change quickly. Waiting … planning now for responses to a transition in Zimbabwe. Given the war-like trauma experienced by the country and acute … formation of a Commission for Assistance to a Free Zimbabwe. Beginning the planning process now is not only prudent, but such a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005200922
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Do Large Employers Pay More in Developing Countries? The Case of Five African Countries
Strobl, Eric; Thornton, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822588
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The Day After Comrade Bob : Applying Post-Conflict Reconstruction Lessons to Zimbabwe
Moss, Todd J. - 2007
Zimbabwe is a country on the edge. It may technically be at peace, but it is suffering war-like trauma to its polity … Zimbabwe's political structure and economy by providing technical and legal assistance, sending immediate food aid, helping to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012730163
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Export controls and competitiveness in African mining and minerals processing industries
Fliess, Barbara A.; Idsardi, Ernst; Rossouw, Riaan - 2017
in Zambia and chromite in Zimbabwe. For the empirical analysis the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) index is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695370
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The expansion of regional supermarket chains and implications for local suppliers : a comparison of findings from South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Das Nair, Reena; Chisoro, Shingie - 2016
paper is a synthesis of key findings of studies undertaken in Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe on the expansion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582501