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This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at overall-rural and agricultural household per capita...
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growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three instruments of forest exploitation, the study shows how rural …
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The rate of deforestation in Africa is of paramount concern not only to the future of Africa, but also to the world …
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’s economic diplomatic strategies and discusses lessons for Africa, China and the West. It contributes to existing literature by …
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that development assistance deteriorates economic (regulation quality and government effectiveness) and institutional … influence the election and replacement of political leaders in Africa may have insignificant results. It is time to solve the … paper extends the debate on foreign aid and institutions in Africa in the light a plethora of recent studies in the aid …
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dropped substantially in all regions with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa. We assess if poverty is in the African gene by … revisiting the findings of Ashraf and Galor (2013, AER) and reformulating the ‘Out of Africa Hypothesis’ into a ‘Genetic … Diversity Hypothesis’ for a ‘Within Africa Analysis’. We motivate this reformulation with five shortcomings arising for the most …
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The Kodila-Tedika & Bolito-Losembe (2014, ADR) finding on no evidence of causality flowing from State fragility to classical corruption or extreme corruption could have an important influence on academic and policy debates. Using updated data (1996-2010) from 53 African countries, we provide...
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her operations and local businesses; exporting low quality products to Africa; and the emergence of China hindering Africa …
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Beijing Model. Both the first and second schools have core values articulated by the New Partnership for Africa’s Development …
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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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