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Education as a tool in the fight against corruption has been subject to much debate in academic and policy making circles. This note extends what we know on this nexus in a threefold manner: namely, in terms of: incremental, lifelong learning and synergy effects. Four main findings are...
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African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural … agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …
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dynamics on inequality adjusted human development. Contemporary and non-contemporary OLS, Fixed-effects and a system GMM … implications are discussed in the light of the post-2015 development agenda. We also provide some recommendations for a rethinking … of theories and models on which development assistance is based. …
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The paper provides theoretical and empirical justifications for the instrumentality of foreign aid in stimulating private investment and fixed capital formation through fiscal policy mechanisms. We propose an endogenous growth theory based on an extension of Barro (1990) by postulating that the...
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This study investigates the role of mobile phones in governance for doing business in Sub-Saharan Africa with data from …
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In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development … Africa; (iii) describe the resurgence of technological start-up entrepreneurship in Africa and (iv) call for policy support …
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policy options, the dataset is disaggregated into fundamental characteristics of African development based on income levels …, legal origins, natural resources and landlockedness. While the hypothesis is invalid in baseline Africa, low income and … characteristics of development. Policy implications, caveats and directions for future research are discussed. …
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This paper provides a systematic review of challenges to doing business in Africa. It complements the extant literature … by answering two critical questions: what are the linkages between the ease of doing business and economic development …; and what are the challeng es to doing business in Africa? In providing answers to the se questions, the nexus between the …
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-Saharan Africa. …
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Purpose - The paper assesses how entrepreneurship affects knowledge economy (KE) in Africa. Design …-tech commodities in Africa, the continent has to start thinking of how to participate in the global value chain of producing what it … mitigation and sustainable development implications. These entail inter alia: the development of technology with value …
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