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African Water Resources; Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development.

Sharma, N.P.; Damhaug, T.; Gilgan-Hunt, E.; Grey, D.; … - World Bank Group - 1996

and quality, and demand increasing due to population growth and economic development. The strategy developed in this … environmental sustainability. The strategy recommends an integrated, cross-sectoral, catchment area approach to water resources …

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Dry times in Africa: Rainfall and Africa's growth performance

BARRIOS, Salvador; BERTINELLI, Luisito; STROBL, Eric - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2003

-Saharan African nations on their poor growth performance relative to other developing countries, this avenue remains empirically … unexplored. In this paper we use a new cross-country panel climatic data set in an economic growth framework to explore the issue …. Our results show that rainfall has been a significant determinant of poor economic growth for Africa, but not for other …

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La demande de raccordement des ménages auprès des petits opérateurs privés d'eau potable. Le cas des quartiers périphériques de Maputo

Briand, Anne; Laré, Amandine Loyal - In: Revue économique 64 (2013) 4, pp. 685-719

The purpose of this article is to explain the choice of private water connection by urban households in peripheral districts using microdata from Maputo (Mozambique). Using data on 880 households, we estimate probit models. Results contribute to the literature on households? water supply in...

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Trading Water and Resource Accessibility Conventions. The case of Sub-Saharian Africa(n) Metropolis (cities?) (In French)

BARON, Catherine; ISLA, Anne - Groupement de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (GRES) - 2004

The issue of the accessibility to drinking water in large Sub-Saharian African Metropolis reveals the emergence of new conventions and new perceptions related to this resource. The current context shows an increasing number of actors. Since the 90’s, new norms are required to guide...

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Inclusive human development in pre-crisis times of globalisation-driven debts

Asongu, Simplice; Efobi, Uchenna; Beecroft, Ibukun - 2014

The paper verifies the Azzimonti et al. (2014) conclusions on a sample of 53 African countries for the period 1996-2008. Authors of the underlying study have established theoretical underpinnings for a negative nexus between rising public debt and inequality in OECD nations. We assess the...

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Investment and Inequality in Africa: which financial channels are good for the poor?

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011

This paper examines how domestic, foreign, private and public investments affect income-inequality through financial intermediary dynamics. With the exception of financial allocation efficiency, financial channels of depth and activity are good for the poor as they diminish estimated household...

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Finance and Inequality: Exploring Pro-Poor Investment Channels in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011

Hitherto very few studies on the inequality-finance(investment) nexus have focused on the African continent owing to lack of relevant data. This paper integrates previously missing investment and financial components in the assessment of how finance affects pro-poor investment channels. Findings...

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Liberalization and financial sector competition: a critical contribution to the empirics with an African assessment

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013

: (1) with the exception of the economic freedom mechanism, liberalization policies have generally decreased the growth of …

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Tourism in the MED 11 countries

Lanquar, Robert - 2011

, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey) have recorded the highest growth rate in inbound world tourism. In the same time, domestic …

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Inequality, Finance and Pro-Poor Investment in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2015

This study complements existing literature by investigating how investment-driven finance affects inequality in Africa. The empirical evidence is based on restricted and unrestricted Two-Stage Least Squares and a pre-crisis periodicity (1980-2002). Inequality is measured with estimated household...

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