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As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the historical trajectory of African management research and managerial thinking. Design/methodology/approach – This paper draws from a review and synthesis of the literature from 1960–2012. Findings – The analysis led to the...
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As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world is becoming a warmer place principally attributable to human activities. Regrettably, the physical impacts of future climate change on humans and the environment will include...
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Despite the immense progress that has been made throughout the world in improving the quality of life through applications of technology, large proportions of the peoples of Africa still leave on less than $1.00 per day income. The seven most industrialised democracies of the world, without...
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Rapid urbanization is a fact of live even in the least developed countries (LDCs) where the lion’s share of the population presently lives in rural areas and will continue to do so for decades to come. At the turn of the millennium 75% of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and...
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This article deals with the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on poverty and education in Africa. It considers the scale … and scope of the pandemic and its anticipated impact on education systems in heavily infected sub-Saharan African … (SADC) region. The paper concludes by suggesting how the education sector can improve its management response to the …
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In this paper, we address the issue of how education affected income inequality in twentieth-century Africa. Three … channels are identified through which education may affect income inequality. First, an increase in the average educational … educational inequality may, given a positive correlation between education level and income, reduce income inequality. Thirdly, an …
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education. …
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, controlling for legal origins and geography. Utilizing freshly collected data on colonial-era population density and education, we …-institutions channel. The effect of education is robust to including variables capturing legal origin and geography, which have additional … explanatory power. We also find some evidence that institutions are endogenous to education. …
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Education has long been recognized as a central element in development. The human capital formation is receiving …. Eritrea is a newly born nation in Africa and is striving hard to develop its higher education. An attempt is made in this …. Furthermore, the paper also delves the development of higher education in the country since independence. The paper provides some …
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