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), Making Nations, Creating Strangers. States and Citizenship in Africa. African Social Studies Series, Leiden: Brill, ISBN … 9004157905, 282 pages. * Simpson, Andrew (ed.) (2008), Language and National Identity in Africa. Oxford, New York: Oxford … related subjects. The new nationalism in Africa and elsewhere shows remarkable differences both in its roots and its impact …
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This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the …
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Nighttime lights are increasingly used by social scientists as a proxy for economic activity and economic development in subnational spatial units. However, so far, our understanding of what nighttime lights capture is limited. We construct local indicators of household wealth, education and...
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achieving security, yet the experience of changing policing systems in Africa is disappointing. Only South Africa and a few post … policing reform literature and African case studies, are suggested. -- Africa ; policing ; economic development ; policing …
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The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation in a panel of 49 African countries for the period 1980-2014. The indirect impact is assessed through financial development channels. The empirical evidence is based on three interactive and non-interactive...
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This article discusses Africa's deepening marginalization in the globalization of production, finance, and labor. It …
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severity and intensity of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using data from the World Bank's World Development Indicators …
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appealing results in terms of net negative effects on constraints to the doing of business (i.e. time to start a business and … time to pay taxes), some positive net effects are also apparent (i.e. number of start-up procedures, time to build a … warehouse and time to register a property). We also establish ICT penetration thresholds at which the unconditional effect of …
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The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation in a panel of 49 African countries for the period 1980-2014. The indirect impact is assessed through financial development channels. The empirical evidence is based on three interactive and non-interactive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982137
-Saharan Africa—a more important agenda for resolution and significance for sub-Saharan countries like Nigeria. Fifty-eight million … the 41 countries globally that suffer from all three forms of malnutrition, 30 are in Africa.Secondary data and literature … security, SDGs, and Africa’s social and economic development. Measures to improve health and Nutrition can be considered a pro …
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