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The African Continental Free Trade Area and financial development for women economic participation in Africa

Tchamyou, Vanessa; Some, Juste; Asongu, Simplice - 2022

The study has contributed to the extant literature on the relevance of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) by assessing how financial development dynamics can moderate the incidence of African trade integration on female labour force participation. The focus is on 47 African...

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Empowering African women for sustainable development : toward achieving the United Nations' 2030 goals

Development Goals in Africa…. A must-read for all those working in the field of sustainable development.” Michael Ngoasong, Gender … for Women Empowerment in Africa Initiative, Nigeria This edited volume assesses the progress that sub-Saharan African … Tutelage for Women Empowerment in Africa Initiative. …

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Thick Borders and Women in Informal Cross Border Trading in Africa. The Case of Zimbabwe

chiukira, levious - 2021

The paper debates the role of customs administrations as national gatekeepers at border posts and the implications of borders on cross-border transactions by women in the informal sector. The discussion shall be on African borders which have been identified as thick and unresponsive to the needs...

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Broadening Options for Promoting Women's Participation in the Extractive Industries Sector in Africa

Jack, Abebe, Dr. Onyisi - 2021

to scale in Africa. This is only a beginning. The sector cannot afford to lose momentum. It must now seize the …

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“Harnessing Digitalization for Africa’s Women Farmers : Shortcomings in Regional Copyright and Data Protection Laws”

Ugwu, Felicia - 2021

exists regarding the potential of digital technologies and data to help Africa overcome food insecurity and poverty, a … persistent gap has been identified in the ability of Africa’s female farmers to utilize digital technology for agriculture … framework necessary for enhancing the use of digital technology by female smallholder farmers in Africa remains relatively …

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Mother Africa's exceptionalism? : income and fertility redux

Grâdšṭayn, Marq; Ishak, Phoebe W. - 2022

We revisit the effect of long run income growth on population fertility in some of the poorest countries in the world. Causal inference is enabled through proxying income windfalls by oil price shocks in oil rich versus oil poor provinces. Using various fertility measures as outcomes, we find...

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Female labour force participation and economic development in African least developed countries

Ornella, Butoyi Ida; Uprasen, Utai - In: Journal of international trade & commerce 17 (2021) 2, pp. 45-56

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Are women emancipating? : evidence from marriage, divorce and remarriage in Rural Northern Burkina Faso

Guirkinger, Catherine; Gross, Jérémie; Platteau, … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 146 (2021), pp. 1-15

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Women in business in Africa : (re)claiming our agency

Bosch, Anita; Booysen, Lize A. E. - In: South African journal of business management 52 (2021) 1, pp. 1-9

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The Dynamics of Women's Labour Supply in Developing Countries

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010

but positive in Africa. We suggest that amongst reasons why African women behave differently are that the conventional … non-employment. In Africa, there is a decline in paid employment which overwhelms the rise in self-employment and this is …

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