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"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...
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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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-Saharan Africa, through a liberal perspective, by decomposing the economic development in the region into several principal …
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Countries in sub-Saharan Africa are some of the poorest and least developed in the world, with deplorable health and … study examines the determinants of multilateral aid inflows to sub-Saharan Africa to determine whether it is directed to the … least developed countries. I use panel data about 22 countries in sub-Saharan Africa from the 1995-2004 period to estimate a …
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This paper focuses on the specific question of how Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) address migration and its potential to enhance human development at the national level. Based on a review of PRSPs completed since 1999, it argues that migration often remains poorly recognised or...
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This paper provides an overview of the recent extension of social protection in sub-Saharan Africa. It identifies two … main ‘models’ of social protection in the region: the Southern Africa and Middle Africa models. It then assesses the …
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case study countries in sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Uganda) and comparing them with target …
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Firms in many low income countries depend entirely on imported capital and intermediate inputs. As a result, in these countries economic activity is considerably influenced by the capacity of the economy to import these inputs which, in turn, depends on the availability and cost of foreign...
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in Africa. It is based on a pooled database that draws upon the entire body of household surveys conducted in sub …-Saharan Africa in the last 15 years. …
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This paper examines the macroeconomic impact of inward international remittances on human-centered development in 15 Sub-Saharan African countries. Following the fixed-effects balanced panel data estimation procedure for the period, 1987 to 2007, the empirical results reveal that, indeed,...
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