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Has macroeconomic management succeeded in making privatization promote growth in Africa? What are the probable … strategies that should accompany the privatization reform process to promote growth in Africa? To what extent has the … privatization process succeeded in attracting foreign direct investment to Africa? The study investigates the relationship between …
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One key element in the reduction of poverty and (in Latin America) inequality has been the achievement of greater fiscal equity; we analyse one key part of this process, which is the earmarking of portions of tax revenue to be spent on progressive public expenditures such as social protection,...
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The global food price crisis of 2007/08 raised fears about the impacts of higher and more volatile food prices for the poor in Zambia. Like in the past, the implementation of the strategies to deal with the rising food prices, especially for the staple crop maize were delayed due to ineffective...
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One key element in the reduction of poverty and (in Latin America) inequality has been the achievement of greater fiscal equity; we analyse one key part of this process, which is the earmarking of portions of tax revenue to be spent on progressive public expenditures such as social protection,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568140
on bank lending behaviour in Africa. It employs the dynamic system Generalized Method of Moments (SGMM) Two …
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Purpose - This paper assesses the incidence of political institutions on stock market performance dynamics in Africa … policy recommendation, the role of sound political institutions is crucial for financial development in Africa. Democracies …
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How do government policies and institutions affect stock market performance? As stock markets grow broader and deeper in African countries, the question becomes more critical. Government quality dynamics of corruption-control, government-effectiveness, political-stability or no violence, voice &...
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Noting that Africa's resource-rich countries have not translated their wealth into sustained economic growth and …
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China's investment activities and infrastructure development in Africa under the Belt and Road Initiative ("BRI") have … changed the prospects of economic cooperation between African countries and Asia's largest economy. Africa plays a prominent … hard infrastructure, port development and trade and investment activities. China is Africa's largest bilateral trading …
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, institutional quality reflected a negative effect on FDI inflows, implying that countries with low quality institutions would … struggle to attract inward FDI. The policy implications are that host countries’ policy makers should eliminate or reduce any …
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