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Capacity development for the transformation of Africa

Léautier, Frannie A. - 2014

expended to develop capacity in Africa with mixed results. This paper provides a working definition of capacity that is …

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Politics and Consumer Prices in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012

The motivations of the Arab Spring that have marked the history of humanity over the last few months have left political economists, researchers, governments and international policymakers pondering over how the quality of political institutions affect consumer welfare in terms of commodity...

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Foreign direct investment in the African food and agriculture sector: Trends, determinants and impacts

Husmann, Christine; Kubik, Zaneta - 2019

Nutrition and Grow Africa, which aim to create a conducive environment for investment, might have also contributed to the growth … drivers of FDI in food and agriculture sector in Africa. More specifically, population size consistently has a significant … impact on sectoral FDI inflows in Africa, irrespective of the model specification. Among the supply-side factors, the size of …

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Fantasy Pitching

Faff, Robert W.; Ali, Searat; Atif, Muhammad; Brenner, Matt - In: Journal of Accounting and Management Information … 16 (2017) 2, pp. 360-379

This paper outlines a fantasy research pitch exercise conducted in a PhD course at the University of Queensland. Using Faff's (2015, 2017) pitching research template, students attending the course were asked to engage in a group exercise to pitch a "fantasy" research topic. While the final...

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Pitching Non-English Language Research: A Dual-Language Application of the Pitching Research Framework

Faff, Robert W.; Shaob, Xuefeng; Alqahtani, Faisal; … - In: Journal of Accounting and Management Information … 17 (2018) 2, pp. 266-290

The global language of scholarly research is English and so the obstacle of getting noticed is montainous when the article is not written in the English language. Indeed, despite rapid advances in technology, the "tyranny of language" creates a segmentation inhibiting scholarly research and...

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The great reversal

Chrimes, Tommy; Gootjes, Bram; Kose, M. Ayhan; Wheeler, … - 2024

The shock of the pandemic and subsequent overlapping crises has led to a reversal in development by exacerbating the challenges facing the most vulnerable 75 economies eligible for concessional loans and grants from the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA). Over 2020-24, per...

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National recovery and resilience plan: Implications for Romania's agriculture

Chereji, Aurelia Ioana; Chiurciu, Irina Adriana; … - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has generated a serious economic and social crisis in the European Union. This in return produced a vigorous EU reply that took among other the shape of a strong financial response trough the provisional instrument of the NextGenerationEU financial instrument. One of...

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Households' resilience and local commercialization in Thailand

Wang, Menglan; Do, Manh Hung - 2023

Understanding households' resilience strategies under uncertainties is important in several domains including social protection, adaptation to climate change, minimizing disaster-related risks, and humanitarian aid. At the same time, food security is an important problem for developing...

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Saving up and diversifying income for a rainy day: Implications for households' resilience strategies and poverty

Do, Manh Hung - 2023

Understanding households' resilience-building strategies is vital for the domains of humanitarian assistance, economic development, and poverty reduction, especially in the places where are vulnerable to shocks. In this study, we assess the correlation between households' risk attitude and their...

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Hegemonic sanctions and global economic ramifications in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: A commentary

Saridakis, George; Alexiou, Constantinos; Hoseinc, Roger; … - In: SPOUDAI - Journal of Economics and Business 72 (2022) 1/2, pp. 34-55

The outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict has sent chills down the spines of policy makers around the world. In this paper we offer an account of the unfolding military intervention in Ukraine and its concomitant global economic ramifications. By assessing the events that have led...

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