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Key Factors for Reaching the Top of the Corporate Ladder
Sinkus, Nicholas - 2007
Nardelli, the lives of these high ranking corporate managers have been extensively scrutinized. However, despite the numerous … has always centered on upper level management. From wondering how much the store manager at my first job got paid, to … considered for an executive level management position in the future. To do so, the most effective means appeared to be to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450224
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Regional marriage patterns and trends in Northern Sudan
Abdelrahman, Abdelrahman Ibrahim - 1989
Marriage is an important institution for both individuals and society as a whole. It is a significant event in the life cycle of individuals; for society at large it represents the creation of a new unit of production, consumption, distribution and exchange of goods and services. In most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438848
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Demographic trends in Sub-Saharan Africa
van de Walle, Etienne; Kekovole, John - 1986
The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size and growth on the overall socio-economic development in the region, has received the least attention due to lack of reliable data for most of the countries. This paper focuses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438868
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Reserves Accumulation in African Countries: Sources, Motivations, and Effects
Elhiraika, Adam; Ndikumana, Léonce - 2007
accumulation and to design optimal reserve management strategies to minimize these costs and maximize the gains from resource … countries, especially those endowed with natural resources, need to adopt a more pro-growth approach to reserve management. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468018
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Is There a Case for Formal Inflation Targeting in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Heintz, James; Ndikumana, Léonce - 2010
This paper examines the question of whether inflation targeting monetary policy is an appropriate framework for sub-Saharan African countries. The paper presents an overview of inflation targeting, reviews the justification for the regime, and summarizes some major critiques. Monetary policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468213
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An Empirical Investigation of Why Doctors Migrate and Women Fail to Go for Screening.
Okeke, Edward Nwabugwu - 2009
In my first paper I examine the impact of short-term economic shocks on physician migration using a new panel dataset on physician migration from 31 African countries to the US and the UK. I estimate distributed-lag regressions of log migration on economic growth, I also instrument for growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476584
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A Family of Flexible Parametric Duration Functions & their Applications to Modelling Child-Spacing in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ghilagaber, Gebrenegus; Gyimah, Stephen Obeng - 2004
The birth-interval approach to the study of fertility reflects two aspects of the process of reproduction: (1) the quantum of fertility as indicated by the proportion of women who move to the next higher parity; and (2) the tempo of fertility, as measured by the time it takes to make the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447238
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Micro evidence of the brain gain hypothesis : the case of Cape Verde
Batista, Catia; Lacuesta, Aitor; Vicente, Pedro
Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this specific question for the case of Cape Verde. This is allegedly the African country suffering from the largest "brain drain",...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012530246
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Agricultural Productivity and Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa
Yu, Bingxin; Nin Pratt, Alejandro - 2011
We analyze the evolution of Sub-Saharan Africa’s agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) over the past 45 years, looking for evidence of recent changes in growth patterns using an improved nonparametric Malmquist index. Our TFP estimates show a remarkable recovery in the performance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445217
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Bargaining Chains (Long Version)
Lovejoy, William S. - 2010
We consider a firm that designs a new product and wishes to bring it to market, but does not have ownership or control over all of the resources required to make that happen. The firm must select and contract with one of several possible tier 1 suppliers for necessary inputs, who do the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476922