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ILO pub. On the job training, Africa - apprenticeship, legal aspects, alternating training, cost, efficiency. …
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malaria by 75% We conclude that the cost of comprehensive malaria control for Africa is US$3.0 billion per year on average, or …This paper estimates the number of people at risk of contracting malaria in Africa using GIS methods and the disease … projected out through 2015 to give a year-by-year cost of meeting the Millennium Development Goal for reducing the burden of …
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Despite the low levels of taxation and public good provision in Africa, I provide evidence that a large proportion of … its potential threats to the autonomy of society. I show the historic social contracts in Africa rarely featured taxation … the way Africa is governed today …
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and energy policy implications, factors affecting supply and demand, incl. Investment and profitability, costs and the …
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Discusses the financial significance of Uganda's flower industry, employment practices and working conditions there in, and government policies.
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I study irreversible investment decisions when projects take time to complete, and are subject to two types of … uncertainty over the cost of completion. The first is technical uncertainty, i.e., uncertainty over the amount of time, effort …, and materials that will ultimately be required to complete the project, and that is only resolved as the investment …
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invalidate its use for estimating the cost of capital for projects in making capital budgeting decisions. Since stocks are backed …
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assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely …
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In this paper we evaluate the impact of colonialism on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the world context … negative effect on development in Africa. To develop this claim we distinguish between three sorts of colonies: (1) those which …
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This paper presents new evidence on the power sharing layout of national political elites in a panel of African countries, most of them autocracies. We present a model of coalition formation across ethnic groups and structurally estimate it employing data on the ethnicity of cabinet ministers...
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