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Ethiopia is one of a number of SSA economies that adopted state-led development strategies in the 1970s (others include … Angola and Mozambique), and suffered from intense conflict (leading to the fall of the Derg regime in 1991). The new …-economic stability and growth in Ethiopia. In this regard, the Chinese transition strategy—in which significant control was retained over …
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Angola’s difficulties in achieving macro-economic stability and economic liberalization have serious implications for private-sector development. Hyperinflation, and frequent policy reversal, constrain and distort investment in both the informal and formal parts of the private sector. But...
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Privatization, together with liberalization and deregulation, constituted the core of Mozambique's economic transition. Privatization in Mozambique has taken place on an unusually large scale in comparison with the rest of Africa. Privatization interacted with military demobilization and...
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With the Derg's overthrow in 1991, Eritrea embarked on the construction of a new state. New economic institutions were created, and considerable reform undertaken. Problems in co-ordinating reform and reconstruction were largely avoided, mainly because of the institutional ‘clean slate’...
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Ethiopia is one of a number of SSA economies that adopted state-led development strategies in the 1970s (others include … Angola and Mozambique), and suffered from intense conflict (leading to the fall of the Derg regime in 1991). The new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043854
countries' governments are ineffective. It specifically examines ODA to Ethiopia and Sudan, which received the largest share of …
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ways to moderate and contain conflict. As often, changeable African cases challenge established assumptions, analyses and …
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Of the 41 HIPCs, 11 are classified by the IMF and World Bank as conflict-affected. Can debt relief reduce the level of … violent conflict in these countries? By providing additional resources to finance broad-based public spending, debt relief … could help to redress the grievances that contribute to conflict. It could also reduce the ability of those motivated by …
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Growth improved substantially in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since 1990, but poverty in SSA as a whole has fallen by about a third, compared to by half or more in other developing regions. While some countries have had little or no success in reducing poverty, many have had...
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Growth in service exports has improved countries' per capita incomes, reduced over-reliance on goods exports, and promoted economic diversification. However, the growth has not been uniform across regions and countries. Africa lags behind in service exports. This paper examines the...
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