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a variety of sources to present a broad picture of development across Africa. Some of the key improvements in this year …
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cases, the original sources are the national statistical services in Africa. In addition, many international agencies …
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of development in Africa, with several countries making remarkable progress and others lagging seriously behind. ADI 2004 ….9 billion in 2002. These continued to be heavily concentrated in oil exporting countries and South Africa. The increase in … relief is playing a larger role in Africa's resource picture, as total debt service relief reached $43 billion in fiscal year …
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This study extents the literature on responses to a recent World Bank report on the African poverty tragedy by assessing the effect of globalisation on inclusive human development in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011. Political, economic, social and general globalisation variables...
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This study investigates the relationship between social media and inclusive human development in 49 African countries for the year 2012. Social media is measured with Facebook penetration whereas inclusive human development is proxied by the inequality- adjusted human development index. The...
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In the light of evidence that poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the World with the exception of Africa …, where about 45 percent of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa did not achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) extreme …
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human development is fundamental to Africa's growth agenda in the post-2015 sustainable development era …
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Motivated by evidence that extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa …
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increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions affect inclusive human development in 44 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period …
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Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version, a regression for log consumption calibrates a proxy-means test score based on chosen covariates, which is then implemented for targeting out-of-sample. In this paper, the...
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