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Navigating Rivalries: Prospects for Coexistence between ECOWAS and AES in West Africa
Kohnert, Dirk - 2024
The Alliance of Sahel States (AES), created in September 2023 by the three military governments of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso as a counterweight to ECOWAS and the postcolonial influence of France and other Western countries, announced the creation of a confederation of its three countries in...
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Expanding Horizons: Iran's Strategic Engagements in Sub-Saharan Africa - Insights from South Africa, Nigeria, and Tanzania
Kohnert, Dirk - 2024
Since the 1960s, both the regime of Reza Pahlavi (1941-1979) and, subsequently starting from 1979 the Islamic Republic of Iran, have intervened in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). While the Shah's policies were motivated by a virulent anti-communist stance, the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) pursued a...
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Le Brésil, soutient-il le développement en Afrique de l'Ouest ? L'exemple du Nigeria, du Ghana et du Sénégal
Kohnert, Dirk - 2023
'exception du Nigeria (34 % du commerce africain du Brésil). Néanmoins, le Ghana et le Sénégal ont joué un rôle crucial dans l … ressources, le développement durable et la coopération pour développer ces ressources, par ex. usines de bioéthanol au Ghana. Par … West Africa, apart from Nigeria (34 % of Brazil’s African trade) remained fairly modest. Nevertheless, Ghana and Senegal …
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On the impact of the 2023 Sudanese war on Africa and beyond
Kohnert, Dirk - 2023
For decades, the history of Sudan, Africa's third largest country with around 46 million inhabitants, has been marked by violent clashes between the northern, Muslim and Arab military elites of the capital Khartoum at the expense of the civilian population. Since Sudan gained independence in...
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The Labor Market in Azerbaijan
Rahmanov, Ramiz; Qasimov, Asif; Tahirova, Gulzar - 2016
employment, low youth and female unemployment, flexibility, and a low share of the "working poor", all of which can beneficially … self-employment, and an excess of labor cost growth over productivity growth, all of which can threaten further economic …
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Entrepreneurship: what´s happening?
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - 2011
Much has been said lately about entrepreneurship, so it seems important to leave here some personal analysis on this topic. The issues outlined here result from a work in about a year in which because a personal and professional obligations it was doing some research on these issues. This is an...
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Remittances and Income Inequality in Africa: Financial Development Thresholds for Economic Policy
Ofori, Isaac K.; Gbolonyo, Emmanuel; Dossou, Marcel A.; … - 2022
The study employs macrodata on 42 African countries to examine whether remittances and financial development (including the sub-components of access, depth and efficiency) contribute to the equalisation of incomes across the continent. Robust evidence from the dynamic GMM estimator shows that:...
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Effect of Exchange Rate Volatility on Tax Revenue Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Obeng, Camara Kwasi; Mwinlaaru, … - 2021
Efforts to spur growth in sub-Sahara Africa have been intensified amid structural and institutional constraints. Tax revenue, the chief source of funding for developmental purposes in SSA remains low and unstable. In fact, the SSA sub-region finds it difficult generating tax revenue up to 20 per...
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Towards the Reversal of Poverty and Income Inequality Setbacks Due to COVID-19: The Role of Globalisation and Resource Allocation
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Armah, Mark Kojo; Asmah, Emmanuel E. - 2021
, as driven primarily by the floundering hydrocarbon sector, vulnerable employment, and low foreign direct investment, we …
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Catching The Drivers of Inclusive Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Application of Machine Learning
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi - 2021
A conspicuous lacuna in the literature on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is the lack of clarity on variables key for driving and predicting inclusive growth. To address this, I train the machine learning algorithms for the Standard lasso, the Minimum Schwarz Bayesian Information Criterion (Minimum...
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