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Africa's Economic Future: Learning from the Past

Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - In: CESifo Forum 11 (2010) 1, pp. 62-71

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The demand for imports and exports in Africa: A survey

Olabisi, Michael; Sawyer, W. Charles - In: Journal of African Trade 7 (2020) 1/2, pp. 45-59

To drive economic development, it is important for policy makers to have a good understanding of the linkages between imports, exports, and the rest of the economy. This is particularly true for Africa. The continent depends on exports of commodities to finance imports of manufactured goods for...

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Regional integration and growth spillovers: Is Africa an economic space?

Seck, Abdoulaye; Fall, Founty Alassane; Aidara, Khadidiatou - In: Journal of African Trade 7 (2020) 1/2, pp. 37-44

Market integration is often associated with economic growth spillovers, to the extent that strengthened trade linkages would make economic growth in one country an opportunity for growth to its partners. This paper uses a spatial dynamic panel data approach to analyze the extent to which Africa...

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The impact of imports from China on African textile exports

He, Yong - In: Journal of African Trade 7 (2020) 1/2, pp. 60-68

This study uses Comtrade trade data covering 1990-2017, 14 textile subsectors, and 53 African countries with their main trade partners to evaluate Chinese trade impacts on African textile exports over three subperiods at the sector level. It finds that, although textile imports from China had a...

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Exchange rate dynamics and trade balance in selected African countries

Shuaibu, Mohammed Isa; Isah, Abdulrasheed - In: Journal of African Trade 7 (2020) 1/2, pp. 69-83

African countries have over the years experienced persistent current account deficits. The role of asymmetries in explaining the response of trade balance to exchange rate movement has not received adequate attention as linear models dominate extant empirical literature. In this paper, we...

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Small flows, compliance costs and trade preferences: The case of EU imports from African LDCs

Nilsson, Lars; Dotter, Caroline - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-45, pp. 1-29

Previous work has shown that a significant number of preference eligible goods are imported into the EU from developing countries at relatively small values and that the rate of preference utilisation of these imports are low and in many cases zero. This fact is unobserved in the aggregate...

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Mehr Entwicklungshilfe ist nicht genug: Zielgerichtete Unterstützung armer afrikanischer Länder mit guter Regierungsführung?

Nunnenkamp, Peter - In: Africa-Spektrum 40 (2005) 3, pp. 445-470

Nationen fordern deshalb, die Entwicklungshilfe massiv aufzustocken, und der Afrika-Aktionsplan der G8 verspricht eine … Konzentration der Hilfe auf Afrika. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt sich zum einen die Frage, in welchem Maß die lokalen … ist die Versicherung der Geber zu hinterfragen, dass die Hilfe für Afrika zielgerichtet an arme Empfängerländer mit guter …

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Rural class differentiation in Nigeria: Theory and practice - a quantitative approach in the case of Nupeland

Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 14 (1979) 3, pp. 295-315

The knowledge of social stratification within the peasantry is a decisive precondition of sustainable economic and political measures for an effective support of agricultural production in least developed countries. This is one of the reasons why also in Nigeria social scientist focus on the...

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Unternehmer und Grundherren Nord-Nigerias im Kampf um die politische Macht: Zum sozialen Aufstieg der einheimischen Wirtschaftselite in den nigerianischen Emiraten

Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 13 (1978) 3, pp. 269-286

The traditional relationship of patronage and clientship between the landlords and the growing commercial class in Bida and in other Nigerian Emirates - firmly established during the 19th century - left indelible marks which influenced the pattern of social communication between these two...

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The Asian Drivers and Africa: Learning from Case Studies

Goldstein, Andrea E.; Pinaud, Nicolas; Reisen, Helmut; … - In: The World Economy 32 (2009) 11, pp. 1538-1542

When the OECD Development Centre launched research in 2005 to document the economic, political and social impacts of China's and India's economic growth on sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, the arrival (or resurgence) of new important players had triggered concerns among traditional donors....

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