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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality

Lamanna, Francesca - 2013

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Coûts de la Covid-19, Tropicalisation de modèle épidémiologique et Arbitrage santé-économie en Afrique

KOUAKOU, Thiédjé Gaudens-Omer - 2025

We model the optimal behavior of the public decision-maker of an African country plagued by covid-19, with little fiscal room for maneuver and facing a health-economy dilemma. The model shows that a substantial part of the economic costs of covid-19 is due to a deficit in tropicalization of the...

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L'agence sociale compte! - Des entrepreneurs migrants africains et chinois comme acteurs de changement

Kohnert, Dirk - 2016

English Abstract: [Social Agency matters! - African and Chinese entrepreneurs as agents of change] - The book reviewed, edited by Laurence Marfaing and Karsten Giese, documents a research project, on-going since six years, at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA-Hamburg) which...

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Are Africans happy? 'Return to laughter' in times of war, famine and misery

Kohnert, Dirk - 2022

Happiness is a universal state of mind. However, its meaning takes on culture-specific forms, ranging from emotional states of mind to life satisfaction. The definition of 'happiness' is strongly influenced by the respective philosophical background and material living conditions and is shaped...

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Les Africains, sont-ils heureux ? « Retour au rire » en temps de guerre, de famine et de misère

Kohnert, Dirk - 2022

ABSTRACT & RÉSUMÉ : Happiness is a universal state of mind. However, its meaning takes on culture-specific forms, ranging from emotional states of mind to life satisfaction. The definition of 'happiness' is strongly influenced by the respective philosophical background and material living...

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Heterogeneous Effects of Frontier Technology Readiness on Economic Growth in Africa

Ofori, Isaac K.; Gbolonyo, Emmanuel Y.; Vezzulli, Andrea - 2024

economic growth. Second, the study assesses whether FTR and egalitarian democracy synergistically enhance economic growth … effect is modest; second, egalitarian democracy amplifies the growth-enhancing impact of FTR, but only at higher thresholds …st to the 9th quantile. However, in the presence of egalitarian democracy, FTR significantly enhances growth across all …

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Heterogeneous Effects of Frontier Technology Readiness on Economic Growth in Africa

Ofori, Isaac K.; Gbolonyo, Emmanuel Y.; Ojong, Nathanael - 2024

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Does Economic Complexity Promote Inclusive Green Growth?

Gbolonyo, Emmanuel Y.; Ofori, Isaac K.; Ojong, Nathanael - 2024

Despite the growing scholarly attention concerning the effect of economic complexity (ECI) on inclusive growth and the environment, there remain some pertinent gaps in the literature. First, previous studies have not explored the effect of ECI on inclusive green growth (IGG). Second, prior...

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Enhancing Governance for Environmental Sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas - 2019

This study assesses whether improving governance standards affects environmental quality in 44 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments. Bundled and unbundled governance dynamics are used notably: (i) political...

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FinTech and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Electronic Payment Systems

Tut, Daniel - 2020

This paper investigates the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on financial institutions and consumers’ adoption of FinTech in payments. We find that the pandemic: [1] Initially had a negative impact on the adoption of FinTech, but favorable short-term regulatory changes have reversed some of...

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