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This study investigated two key questions: what is the impact of industrialisation on urbanisation in Africa? and to … what extent does financial development affect this industrialisation- urbanisation nexus? To elicit answers to these … panel estimator. The findings showed that industrialisation had positive and significant effects on urbanisation. Further …
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at the city level in Africa, this scholarship has neglected the political economy and, more importantly, the informal …
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. There are many opportunities to expand trade in services between South Africa and other African countries. Improvements in … urban planning, design, and governance are vital to create more productive and liveable cities. South Africa has many … capabilities to support urbanization in Africa. However, South African companies have been relatively unsuccessful at exporting …
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This paper reviews recent work on the economics of fast growing developing country cities, with a focus on Africa. It … sets out some of the broad facts about African urbanisation and summarises two recent pieces of research work. The first …
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Climate change exacerbates desertification forcing millions of rural people to urbanize, especially in developing countries. Our quantitative analysis across African countries highlights migrants’ two typical sequential moves: i) people escape from villages to cities; ii) through cities’...
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Is rural to urban migration in developing countries a viable way to improve the opportunities available to children? And does growing up in a city affect educational attainment? Using census data for 14 African countries combined with an age-at-move design, I show that childhood exposure to...
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role of economic factors such as the lack of agglomeration economies and poor infrastructure in urban Africa. …
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Our analysis of over 500 Ghanaian firms sheds light, for the first time, on how certain firms managed to extract value from mobile money. Our regressions point to the usefulness of this form of cashless payments in stabilizing sales during the COVID pandemic. Perhaps the most important message...
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Our analysis of over 500 Ghanaian firms sheds light, for the first time, on how certain firms managed to extract value from mobile money. Our regressions point to the usefulness of this form of cashless payments in stabilizing sales during the COVID pandemic. Perhaps the most important message...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015079847