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A false start : law and development in the context of a colonial legacy
Gaay Fortman, Bastiaan de; Mihyo, Paschal B. - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000137339
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Teacher shortages, teacher contracts and their impact on education in Africa
Bourdon, Jean; Michaelowa, Katharina; Frölich, Markus - 2007
the quantile treatment effects for Niger, Togo and Mali, based on very informative data, comparable across these countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009161944
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Teacher shortages, teacher contracts and their impact on education in Africa
Bourdon, Jean; Frölich, Markus; Michaelowa, Katharina - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003514597
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Teacher shortages, teacher contracts and their impact on education in Africa
Bourdon, Jean (contributor); Frölich, Markus (contributor);  … - 2007
the quantile treatment effects for Niger, Togo and Mali, based on very informative data, comparable across these countries …, somewhat mixed in Togo (with positive effects in 2nd and negative effects in 5th grade) and negative in Niger. This ordering is … contract teacher programme in the three countries. In Mali and, to some extent, in Togo, the contract teacher system works more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003599698
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Brainy Africans to fortress Europe: for money or colonial vestiges?
Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N. - 2009
Economic reasons along with cultural affinities and the existence of networks have been the main determinants explaining migration flows between home and host countries. This paper reconsiders these approaches combined with the gravity model and empirically tests the hypothesis that ex-colonial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269549
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Brainy Africans to fortress Europe: For money or colonial vestiges?
Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N. - 2009
Economic reasons along with cultural affinities and the existence of networks have been the main determinants explaining migration flows between home and host countries. This paper reconsiders these approaches combined with the gravity model and empirically tests the hypothesis that ex-colonial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271581
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Colonial legacy and poverty reduction in sub- Saharan Africa
Khan, Rumman; Morrissey, Oliver; Mosley, Paul - 2016
Although growth has improved substantially in most African countries in recent years, poverty across the continent has fallen very little in the aggregate. There have been strong poverty reduction performances in some countries, but others exhibit higher poverty rates now than in 1990 despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434317
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Colonial legacies and social welfare regimes in Africa : an empirical exercise
Mkandawire, Thandika - 2016
This paper identifies three types of welfare regimes in Africa, based on the insight that tax and expenditure regimes are closely associated. Using cluster analysis, the author highlights historical legacies in current welfare policies, demonstrating that welfare regimes in Africa have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485114
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The evolution of human capital in Africa, 1730-1970 : a colonial legacy?
Baten, Jörg; Cappelli, Gabriele - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502440