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Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Private Investment in Sub-Saharan African Countries : Crowding-In or Out ?

RPS Submitter, Banque de France; Askandarou, Diallo; … - 2021

This paper investigates the relationship between FDI and private investment in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), using a sample … investment in the short run but significant crowding-in effects in the long-run: a one percentage point increase of the share of … FDI in GDP leads to a 0.29% rise in private investment, in the long run. Our results also show that FDI interacts with …

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The Economic Tragedy of the Xxth Century : Growth in Africa

Vila-Artadi, Elsa; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2021

rates Africa would have enjoyed if these key determinants had taken OECD rather than African values. Expensive investment …

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Finance, Institutions and Private Investment in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph; S. Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2021

the relationships between various components of property rights institutions and private investment, notably: political … correlate of private investment than financial intermediary development. The interaction of finance and governance is not … significant in potentially promoting private investment, perhaps due to substantially documented surplus liquidity issues in …

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Mobile Money and Investment by Women Businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa

Islam, Asif - 2020

become widespread and have increased investment by businesses, especially in East Africa. Second, women-owned business in the … study connects the two findings by exploring whether mobile money use by women-owned firms increases their investment. The … findings indicate that the positive relationship between mobile money use and investment is largely driven by women-owned firms …

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Private Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa in the First Half of 2011 Increased Compared to Recent Years

Nicholas, Alexander - 2013

investment commitments of US$697 million. Investment in the first semester of 2011 increased by 27 percent compared with the …

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The relation between capital formation and economic growth : evidence from sub-Saharan African countries

Uneze, Eberechukwu - In: Journal of economic policy reform 16 (2013) 3, pp. 272-286

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Understanding the Effects of Agricultural R&D Investments on Poverty and Undernourishment in Sub-Saharan Africa : A Causal Mediation Approach

Benfica, Rui; Nin Pratt, Alejandro - 2021

This analysis explores the relationship between agricultural R&D investments and rural poverty reduction, and the prevalence of undernourishment in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It uses a panel data set of internationally comparable poverty dis-aggregated by urban and rural areas, country level...

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Investing in Africa's Youth

Wegner, Lucia - 2008

African countries face high youth unemployment and a skills shortage. Technical and vocational systems in Africa are poorly funded and managed. Skill-development strategies need to be integrated into poverty-reduction strategies and focused on sectors with promising employment prospects.

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Emerging Africa

Berthélemy, Jean-Claude; Salmon, Jean-Michel; … - 2002

Emerging Africa is based on the fundamental conviction that, unless growth resumes, poverty cannot be reduced in the least developed countries. This study analyses the factors underlying the renewed dynamism of certain African economies in the 1990s. Several countries are, indeed, trying to meet...

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The Economic Tragedy of the XXth Century : Growth in Africa

Artadi, Elsa V. - 2003

rates Africa would have enjoyed if these key determinants had taken OECD rather than African values. Expensive investment …

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