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Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya have a history of European colonization, whilst Ethiopia and Eritrea, resisted European …
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At the August 2014 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, the White House brought together government officials from 50 African … countries. The historic gathering in Washington focused on trade and investment in Africa, drawing scores of investors and … Africa. The roundtable gathered leaders in the business and governance community, while Doing Business in Tanzania addressed …
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providing evidence of a resource curse. Extractive industries in South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia have positive direct …
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providing evidence of a resource curse. Extractive industries in South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia have positive direct …
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empirically examined if economic growth in Africa's top five oil exporters (Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Libya, and Nigeria) is … Algeria remained unresponsive to U.S. and China uncertainties respectively. We concluded that Africa's oil exporters should …
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countries. In particular, the relationship between economic growth and air pollution in Africa remains largely unexplored. In …
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of institutional reforms on the revival of African economies. We study the impact of positive changes in business environment indicators of the Doing Business project and the Economic Freedom Index of the Heritage Foundation on the private sector...
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Are there still significant common macroeconomic fluctuations between Nigeria and its industrial trade partners, even with the increased growth performance and resilience of emerging market and developing economies to developments originating from advanced economies in recent years? This paper...
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Although growth has improved substantially in most African countries in recent years, poverty across the continent has fallen very little in the aggregate. There have been strong poverty reduction performances in some countries, but others exhibit higher poverty rates now than in 1990 despite...
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This article seeks to explain Africa's current quot;period of unparalleled economic success,quot; following decades of …;metalsquot; hypothesis) or policy reforms (our quot;managementquot; hypothesis) have driven Africa's recent reversal of economic fortune … commodity booms are typically followed by commodity busts, better economic management may be critical for sustaining Africa …
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