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Little investigation has been made to explain why women are less likely than are men to support democracy in sub-Saharan Africa. This gender difference in politics has been found in numerous studies and may hinder the much needed legitimation of democracy in this region. This paper addresses the...
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One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land...
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openness and export promotion policies established since the early 1970s succeeded in allowing Tunisia to achieve significant … export growth, especially in low-technology manufacturing. But, until recently, the general wisdom has been that the country …
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following the literature on Economic Complexity and combines it with a demand-driven gravity model on merchandise export. Hence …
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export and that export participation is highly persistent. There is also evidence supporting the learning by exporting … hypothesis and the results suggest a significant export premium of between 15 and 24 per cent, controlling for differences in …. We conclude that the Mozambican Export Promotion Institute could play an important role in overcoming this information …
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This paper explores the relationship between trade, trade liberalization, and exports diversification in developing and Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. The non-parametric analyses indicate that developing countries that are more open to trade (based on trade intensity) tend to have more...
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well as export diversification. We use monthly data from the past decade, including periods during the global food and … financial crises. Our findings suggest that diversification out of traditional coffee exports to other export commodities … successfully mitigated a terms of trade shock. Continued export diversification will be beneficial. -- Terms of Trade ; Food Price …
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African manufacturing exports. The degree of market diversification, measured by the number of export destinations, is highly … correlated with export intensity at the firm level, and both embody strong scale effects. Technological factors, such as new … vintage capital and Internet access, which improve production efficiency and lower export costs, show strong effects on the …
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this change in a case study on Rwanda. In the empirical analysis, we find that highly targeted Aid for Business has a … directed at broad governance areas. In the country case study, we depart from Rwanda's excellent regulatory performance to …
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an alternative to manufacturing-led development in Rwanda since its aims is to become a service-based hub to serve … Rwanda's economy and empirically estimate its determinants by using an econometric methodology. The empirical results are … based on micro-data collected during the Rwanda Enterprise Survey 2011 and the 2014 Establishment Census. The survey has …
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