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Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …
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Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960429
We explore the potential effects of the first leaders of Sub-Saharan Africa. We first outline a set of theoretical …
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We build on existing literature and contemporary challenges to African development to assess the role of political stability in fighting corruption and boosting corruption-control in 53 African countries for the period 1996-2010. We postulate that on the one hand, an atmosphere of political...
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learning in Africa. Practical implications- As a policy implication, when faced with aid uncertainty, the demand for education …
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This study investigates the effect of foreign aid on education and lifelong learning in 53 African countries for the period 1996-2010. Three main issues are assessed, notably: (i) the effect of aid on education; (ii) the incremental impact of aid on education and (iii) the effect of aid on...
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(Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) and the World Bank in particular to celebrate dynamic growth in Asia, Africa … ‘South-South' growth. In this context, the paper offers a stylized comparison of Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia as …
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This study investigates: (i) the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP) and economic growth dynamics, and (ii) the relevance of value added from three economic sectors in modulating the established effect of FDI on TFP and economic growth dynamics. The...
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aid volatility does not adversely affect the demand-side choices of lifelong learning in Africa. As a policy implication …
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In Africa there has been an immense effort in the past, continuing into the present, to unite politically and to build … numerous economic integration areas. In this paper we discuss the reasons for the existence of this phenomenon in Africa which … explanation is based on the theory of bureaucracy and the imbalances emerging in the process of development. If Africa is ready …
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