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The global economic crisis beginning in 2008 has come at a very inopportune time for Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA … the same period for South East Asia and India, for instance. Meanwhile, human development had also resurged since the mid …
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respect to prospects for development. Preliminary assessment shows that the aftershocks of the global meltdown have affected … rebalancing may negatively affect economic growth prospects in Africa. Short-term policy should therefore focus on expanding … as employment protection. The challenge for Africa should not consist simply of ensuring that national economies return …
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How responsive are remittances to various disasters, both natural and human-made? And would remittances be affected by systemic financial crises (such as the 2008/09 financial crisis)? Using panel data on 23 Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries over the period 1980 to 2007, we find that...
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The paper uses a unique database covering 44 countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries between 2000 and 2007 to … private capital flows could affect growth. In our sample, the degree of financial market development is an important …
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the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa. In order to co-ordinate and craft the most appropriate responses for African … indices are constructed for the continent and individual countries. It is shown that, of all developing regions, Africa is the …
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updated data (1996-2010). Findings suggest development assistance deteriorates government quality dynamics of corruption …
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development matter in the impact of aid on development. In substance its object is to assess if threshold development conditions … are necessary for the effectiveness of foreign aid in Africa. Design/methodology/approach - The panel quantile regression … technique enables us to investigate if the relationship between development dynamics and development assistance differs …
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of policy options in financial dynamics (of money, credit, efficiency and size) on consumer prices. Soaring food prices have marked the geopolitical landscape of African countries in the past decade. Design/methodology/approach - We...
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of financial dynamic policy options in money, credit, efficiency and size on consumer prices. Soaring food prices have marked the geopolitical landscape of developing countries in the past few years. Design/methodology/approach - The...
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This paper integrates two main strands of the aid-development nexus in assessing whether institutional thresholds … matter in the effectiveness of foreign aid on institutional development in 53 African countries over the period 1996 … Africa. (2) But for a thin exception (democracy), foreign-aid is more negatively correlated with countries of higher …
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