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The application of knowledge stylised facts in West Africa Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU)

Amanzou, Nogbou Andetchi Aubin; Ballo, Zie; Troupa, … - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 11 (2022), pp. 1-20

public investment highlights the exogenous nature of the current economic growth. So, a change of the strategy in the … such arguments are supported by New Growth Theory. However, the implementation of the new theory required compliance to a … need of New Growth Theory. The stylized facts of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) have been compared to …

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Crisis Region Western Africa - The cradle of African migration to Europe

Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa and Fortress Europe - Threats and opportunities, (pp. 37-55). 2007

In the last decades the number of refugees from conflict regions in Africa increased dramatically. West Africa is the cradle of migration from Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe, were most African migrants with overseas destinations live. The European Union shares dual responsibility for the...

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Senegal: Presidential elections 2019 - The shining example of democratic transition immersed in muddy power-politics.

Kohnert, Dirk; Marfaing, Laurence - In: Canadian Journal of African Studies (CJAS) 53 (2019) 2, pp. 355-366

Whereas Senegal has long been sold as a showcase of democracy in Africa, including peaceful political alternance, things apparently changed fundamentally with the Senegalese presidentials of 2019 that brought new configurations. One of the major issues was political side-switching that has been...

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Commodities, Prices and Risk: The Changing Market for Non-Slave Products in Pre-Abolition West Africa

Dalrymple-Smith, Angus; Woltjer, Pieter - 2016

In this chapter, we have examined the changing market for African commodities in the decades before the British abolished their transatlantic slave trade. By constructing a new time series of the quantities and prices of goods imported from Africa in the customs ledgers we have shown that there...

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A Comparative Analysis of East and West African Cotton Cloth Production from the Early Modern to the Post-colonial Era

Frederick, Katharine - 2018

developed and pre-colonial institutions helped encourage industrial growth; where local endowments and geography favored income …

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African Migration to Europe: Obscured Responsibilities and Common Misconceptions

Kohnert, Dirk - 2007

The number of migrants from conflict regions in Africa has been increasing dramatically. The European Union shares dual responsibility for the continuing migration pressure: First, because it fostered over decades corrupt and autocratic regimes with dire disregard to principles of 'good...

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