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Aid and exchange rates in sub-Saharan Africa : nomore dutch disease?

Morrissey, Oliver; Roger, Lionel; Spreng, Lars - 2019

Given the significant inflows of foreign aid to sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) the possibility of Dutch Disease has been a concern. Most macroeconomic models predict that aid inflows, especially if large and/or unanticipated (shocks), will lead to an appreciation of the real exchange rate and...

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Tax and sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa : beyond accountability and responsiveness

Adegboye, Alex; Tagem, Abrams M. E. - 2023

This paper establishes how accountability quality might mediate the effect of tax revenue on sustainable development in 41 sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1990-2019. The empirical evidence is based on three empirical strategies: generalized method of moments, instrumental variable...

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Promoting renewable energy consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa : how capital flight crowds-out the favorable effect of foreign aid

Asongu, Simplice; Eita, Joel Hinaunye - 2023

The study assesses the effect of capital flight in the nexus between foreign aid and renewable energy consumption in 20 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa using data for the period 1996-2018. The empirical technique employed is interactive quantile regressions and the following findings are...

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What really drives economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa? : evidence from the lasso regularization and inferential techniques

Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Obeng, Camara Kwasi; Asongu, Simplice - 2022

The question of what really drives economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been debated for many decades now. However, there is still a lack of clarity on variables crucial for driving growth as prior contributions have been executed at the backdrop of preferential selection of...

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Family planning and ethnic heritage : evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Falco, Chiara - 2024

Family planning is a critical issue in countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa, where high fertility rates coexist with low contraceptive use alongside adverse perinatal outcomes. Using a combination of ethnographic, ecological, and folklore data, we investigate the role played in...

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Sub-Saharan Africa’s prospect of economic development through global supply chains

Ndubuisi, Gideon Onyewuchi; owusu, solomon - 2022

This chapter discusses the prospects of a global supply chain-led development strategy for Africa amid four megatrends to identify relevant research gaps. The megatrends considered in the chapter include China’s rising global economic power and transition to knowledge-intensive sectors, the...

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Capital Flight from Sub-Saharan African Countries : Updated Estimates, 1970-2010

Ndikumana, Leonce - 2013

A key constraint to SSA's growth and development is the shortage of financing. Indeed SSA faces large and growing financing gaps, hindering public investment and social service delivery. At the same time, the sub-region is a source of large-scale capital flight, which escalated during last...

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A critical review of the Follow-the-Innovation approach : stakeholder collaboration and agricultural innovation development

Amankwah, Kwadwo; Shtaltovna, Anastasiya; Girma Kelboro; … - 2015

Technological innovations have driven economic development and improvement in living conditions throughout history … innovations. Consequently, several scholars have been persistently questioning the effectiveness of intervention models in … smallholder agriculture. Following the agricultural innovation systems framework (AIS), this paper reviews a participatory …

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Does adoption of agricultural innovations impact farm production and household welfare in sub-Saharan Africa? : a meta-analysis

Ogundari, Kolawole; Bolarinwa, Olufemi Daniel - In: Agricultural and resource economics review : ARER 48 (2019) 1, pp. 142-169

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Vertical and horizontal decentralization and ethnic diversity in sub-Saharan Africa

Ranis, Gustav - 2012

Vertical decentralization, either at the deconcentration, delegation or, more rarely, the devolution level, has been instituted in most countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. It usually has the effect of increasing the quantity as well as the quality, in terms of health and education, of public goods....

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