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The purpose of the chapter is to analyze Africa's economic successes in the past half century, to understand not only …. While it may not be possible for Africa to alter, for now, its position in the world system, it may nonetheless create the …
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In the last decades the number of refugees from conflict regions in Africa increased dramatically. West Africa is the … cradle of migration from Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe, were most African migrants with overseas destinations live. The … contributed to Africa's growing economic misery, due to the damaging effects of European selfish external trade policy …
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Improved living conditions in Africa would lessen migratory pressure on Europe. The scope of Germany‘s "Marshall Plan … with Africa" is too narrow; progress can only be made if Europe works together. A financial system that reaches as many … people as possible could be one key to future development in Africa …
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This paper offers evidence of the causal impact of high-speed Internet on sexual behavior and HIV spread in Africa. Our … in Africa’s coastal regions. Robust difference-in-differences estimates show that exposure to fast Internet reduces the … diseases. The findings imply that expanding Internet networks in Africa requires educational policy interventions to optimize …
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Motivated by a recent setback in the fight against child malnutrition, this study explores whether aid projects help to reduce stunting, or impaired growth, among children in the local area. Focusing on Malawi, a country with very high stunting prevalence and for which we have access to...
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Despite the benefits of education, the learning crisis in the developing world has led the World bank to characterize it as learning poverty. Education is yet to be declared a political priority in most developing countries. Official Development Assistance (ODA), which is a mechanism for...
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