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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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Reconciling the two dominant development models of the Washington Consensus (WC) and Beijing Model (BM) remains a critical challenge in the literature. The challenge is even more demanding when emerging development paradigms like the Liberal Institutional Pluralism (LIP) and New Structural...
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syndromes. Recent evidence suggests that Africa is on the threshold of significant and sustainable economic growth if its human …-'Building Knowledge Economies in Africa' - consists of papers that focus on, but are not limited to, the four dimensions of the World Bank … of building knowledge economies in Africa and summarises the main contributions to the themed issue. The paper ends by …
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In this study, we examine how insurance affects income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa, using data from 42 countries …-Saharan Africa. …
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Flucht und Migration aus den Ländern der Dritten Welt haben in den letzten Jahrzehnten ein vorher nie gekanntes Ausmaß angenommen und sie werden zukünftig voraussichtlich noch alles bisher Dagewesene übertreffen. Afrika ist von diesen Wanderungsbewegungen besonders stark betroffen. Obwohl...
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Soziokulturelle Länderkurzanalysen wurden Anfang der 1990er Jahre zum festen Bestandteil der "Länderkonzepte", dem neuen zentralen Managementinstrument der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Die Quintessenz dieses Ansatzes wurde in der Frage zusammengefaßt: Wollen und können die...
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, legal origins, natural resources and landlockedness. While the hypothesis is invalid in baseline Africa, low income and …
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This paper is a synthesis of research undertaken as part of the Research Into Use programme (RIU) to explore the question of how agricultural research can be used more effectively to improve agricultural production and farmers' livelihoods in developing countries. Many of the challenges the...
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During the last 60 years development in Sub-Sahara Africa has had three main phases - P1, P2 and P3 - divided by kinks … considered. Some of these hypotheses have been proposed to explain the low growth of Africa, while most are meant to explain the … in the dominating development strategy. At the end of P1 the main policy-package in Africa became the one of African …
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La mesure des nouvelles dimensions du développement (institutions, gouvernance, participation, sociale et politique) pose un redoutable défi à la statistique publique. Pour y répondre, des modules thématiques sur la Gouvernance, la Démocratie et les Multiples Dimensions de la Pauvreté ont...
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