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Assessing the Impact of Ease of Doing Business and Corruption on Economic Growth for Africa Free Trade Zone (AFTZ) Member States
Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2018
A positive economic growth is one crucial macroeconomic objective of every nation. Many countries have formed regional as well as international trading blocs in an attempt to enhance economic growth and maximise welfare of each member state, the AFTZ member states are not an exception. This...
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Education in Post-Independent Eritrea – A Brief Description
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Education is an important pillar in the national economic development. It contributes to economic growth in varied forms. The educational system in Eritrea shows all the symptoms of prolonged neglect under colonialism and war. But education plays a key role in the development after independence....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835622
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Male organ and economic growth: does size matter?
Westling, Tatu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper explores the link between economic development and penile length between 1960 and 1985. It estimates an augmented Solow model utilizing the Mankiw-Romer-Weil 121 country dataset. The size of male organ is found to have an inverse U-shaped relationship with the level of GDP in 1985. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009203643
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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107833
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Military Expenditure, Endogeneity and Economic Growth
d'Agostino, Giorgio; Dunne, John Paul; Pieroni, Luca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The debate over the economic effects of military spending continues to develop, with no consensus, but a deepening understanding of the issues and limitations of previous work. A recent survey has suggested that the inclusion of post Cold War data has tended to make finding a negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108680
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Togo: Failed election and misguided aid at the roots of economic misery
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
conditionality of aid, which had been emphasised as corner stone of the joint EU-Africa strategy. Recent empirical findings on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789402
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Эволюционная теория экономической политики: Часть II: Необходимость своевременного переключения
Polterovich, Victor; Popov, Vladimir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This is the second part of the work on how economic policy of a developing country should change as it approaches the level of developed economies in terms of welfare (GDP per capita) and the quality of institutions. We focus on the impact of several policies to promote the catch up development:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008470454
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Quality Assurance in Higher Education in the Central and East-European Countries after EU Enlargement (2004)
Horga, Ioan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The present analysis has been inspired by the book entitled The Quality Assurance in Higher Education in the Central and East-European Countries – Agenda Ahead, edited by Jan KOHOUTEK, UNESCO-CEPES, Studies on Higher Education, Bucharest, 2009, presenting the outcome of the Research Plan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260515
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Wirtschaftliche Partnerschaftsabkommen (EPAs) der EU mit Afrika: Dominanz der EU Exportinteressen statt Partnerschaft auf Augenhöhe
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In view of the global run on African resources the EU is at pains to conclude Economic Partnership Programs with … Africa and thus creating a win-win situation in a partnership on eye-level. However, many Africans suspect the EU of double … ECOWAS EPAs as example, analyses reveal that tensions are due to both the gap between discourse and practice of EU trade and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114231
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Horse trading? EU-African Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
EU- Africa Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are on the brink. In February 2014 West African leaders agreed in … ECOWAS EPA in its current form would really create a win-win situation for both partners as asserted by the EU is open to … economies. The growing preparedness of African states to challenge EU mercantile interest has been effectively backed by …
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