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Geography causes African countries to experience a ‘proximity gap’. To overcome this gap a ‘big push’ may be needed in infrastructure. The cross-border nature of such infrastructure requires regional cooperation in at least four issues: transport infrastructure, trade facilitation,...
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employment. In this context, this study analyses the two-way linkages between FDI and domestic investment in Sub-Saharan Africa …
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Official data substantially underreports the number of Covid-19 cases and deaths in Africa as testing and surveillance … capacities are limited in many countries. Estimations of excess mortality show that Africa compares relatively favorably to other … pressure on health systems and the economy, the dramatically low vaccination rate of about 5 percent in Africa has to be …
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achieving security, yet the experience of changing policing systems in Africa is disappointing. Only South Africa and a few post …
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Rapid urbanization is an important characteristic of African development and yet the structural transformation debate focuses on agriculture's relative merits without also considering the benefits from urban agglomeration. As a result, African governments are often provided conflicting...
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The global economic crisis beginning in 2008 has come at a very inopportune time for Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …
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Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their …
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In recent years, the private sector has been recognized as a key engine of Africa's economic development. Yet, the most … sector countries are concentrated in Western Africa (Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Niger, Senegal and Togo), Central Africa … (Cameroun, Republic of Congo) and Eastern Africa (Kenya, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania), with the addition of Mauritius. Countries …
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-Saharan Africa. The results suggest that firstly, FDI crowds in domestic investment, and secondly, countries will gain much from …
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