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Do regions with higher working age populations grow faster? This paper examines this question using data from Russian regions and finds evidence that demographic trends influence regional growth convergence. In other words, keeping other factors constant, poorer regions grow faster than richer...
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Uganda?s economy underwent significant structural change in the 2000s whereby the share of non-tradable services in aggregate employment rose by about 7 percentage points at the expense of the production of tradable goods. The process also involved a 12-percentage-point shift in employment away...
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This paper uses the night lights (satellite imagery from outer space) approach to estimate growth in and levels of subnational 2013 gross domestic product for 47 counties in Kenya and 30 districts in Rwanda. Estimating subnational gross domestic product is consequential for three reasons. First,...
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growth and economic development in post-colonial Africa. The paper investigates the paradox of increased female enrollment in …
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's economic marginalization in Sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial period to the end of colonial rule. It is not that women … even in kinship structures in pre-colonial Africa, utilizing the concepts of "rights in persons" and "wealth in people …." Reviewing the processes of production and reproduction, it explains why most slaves in pre-colonial Africa were women and …
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Since the mid-1990s, Sub-Saharan Africa has experienced unprecedented levels of high economic growth. A key question … whether the recent growth spurt in Sub-Saharan Africa is merely temporary or the beginning of a sustainable takeoff. This … paper examines the sources of growth of 32 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in a growth accounting framework. The findings …
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This paper develops a link between four central components of the demographic transition: survival rates; fertility decisions; altruistic intergenerational transfers from workers toward their parents; and economic growth. An increase in child survival is found to reduce the fertility rate and...
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China's World Trade Organization accession): it is not enough to assume, given Africa's high spatial inequality, that local …
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the consequent stake in economic stability. This paper examines why such a process has not happened in Africa. The … neither the political weight nor the analytic capacity to play this role effectively. Yet in Africa, housing has never …
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the structure of housing finance in Africa, its determinants, and its impact on inclusive growth. The findings show that … of demand and supply. In addition, the analysis finds that housing finance development in Africa is not yet an effective … housing finance and greater economic development in Africa. All these findings suggest that policies to boost housing finance …
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