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African countries have sought to replicate the success of East Asia by implementing special economic zones. Despite decades of international experience, there remains no blueprint for successful special economic zone policies, and the majority of special economic zones fall well below...
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Prioritizing public investments requires information on relative returns that are difficult to derive from disparate evaluation studies. This paper presents a 'hybrid' approach that combines ex post evaluation data with an economy-wide model for experimenting ex ante with alternative investment...
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Over many past decades countries in sub-Saharan Africa have received extensive bilateral and multilateral aid in … capacity-building. -- aid ; statistics ; Africa …
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investment (FDI) inflows in Africa and capital flight from the continent over the past decades. It specifically explores two … questions: Is FDI a potential driver of capital flight? And, is natural resource endowment a possible channel for the capital … flight-FDI link? The econometric analysis is based on 32 African countries over the period 1970-2013 using dynamic panel data …
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The growth of African multinational companies in Southern and East Africa in recent decades brings with it a great …
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The purpose of this paper is to capture the impact of foreign capital inflows (which include foreign aid and foreign direct investment) on economic growth in Cameroon. Using the autoregressive distributive lag approach to cointegration and time-series data for the period 1980 - 2008, the results...
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propelled a wave of similar initiatives across Africa. In Southern Africa, Zambia and South Africa instituted special economic … zones in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, are largely latent drivers of growth and employment hampered by inadequate …
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African countries to spur growth and employment. Most special economic zones implemented in Southern Africa have largely … practice and review the implications for implementation and sustainability strategy in Southern Africa. The main findings point …
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To continue its economic growth and create new and better livelihoods, Africa must transform the productive side of its …, but also new risks as Africa's integration with the global economy evolves. Climate change is impacting productive sectors …
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that Kenya, as the ninth largest economy in Africa and the fourth largest in sub-Saharan Africa and with a locational …
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