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Social Underdevelopment In Sub-saharan Africa
… and since 1980, the aggregate per capita GDP in sub-Saharan Africa has declined at almost one percent per fiscal year. Thirty-two countries are poorer now than they were twenty years ago, and sub-Saharan Africa is now the lowest-income region in the world despite the fact that during the last two …
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Renewable energy auctions in sub-Saharan Africa
… analyse successful renewable energy auctions in sub-Saharan Africa and identify the elements contributing to efficient price and effective project realisation outcomes through comparative case studies in South Africa, Zambia and Namibia. The analysis of empirical data was deepened with reference …
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Essays on Bureaucracy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bureaucracies in sub-Saharan Africa frequently depart from the Weberian ideal, but how does the politicization of these bureaucracies affect governance and the implementation of public policy? My dissertation explores this question through three essays. In the first essay, I introduce a unique data …
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Science-based Health Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Policy making bodies are increasingly highlighting the important role innovation can play in African development─not only to spur economic growth but also to deliver locally relevant, affordable products and services to African populations. The health sector is one area where innovation is most …
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The growth of regionalism in Sub-Saharan Africa
In this thesis I will explain how Sub-Saharan Africa has struggled through globalization and interdependence. I will discuss the major theories, which have evolved in the integration literature since the 1960's after the independence of these former colonies. In addition, I will show how scholars …
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The sub Saharan Africa Cotton Sector. Selected Features
… trade, it is an indispensable commodity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Productivity and profitability of cotton production and processing are key determinants of growth in cotton producing countries. This study analyses the SSA cotton sector. The first section will use value chain analysis to …
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Sub-Saharan Africa: Searching for a Social Contract
… the phenomenon of civil war and state failure in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from a social contract perspective. Its main hypothesis is that authoritarianism will lead to state failure in the context of SSA. In this regard, SSA states are political communities that have not done enough to promote and …
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Digital finance and welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa
… the effect of financial inclusion on welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) using the traditional financial inclusion index, which encompasses traditional access to financial services but does not necessarily represent the marginalised, as the majority do not make use of formal financial services. …
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Governance and human development in Sub-Saharan Africa
… to estimate a dynamic panel model on forty-eight sub-Sahara African countries throughout 1996 to 2019 using the Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) technique. The empirical analysis reveals a positive association between all six governance indicators and human development. ‘Voice and …
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Essays on political economy in Sub-Saharan Africa
… effect of elections on national leaders in Sub-Saharan Africa. I first show that the completion of development projects funded by the World Bank and implemented by governments between 1995 and 2014 yields large electoral benefits for incumbent politicians. The causal effect of completion is …
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Ethnic fractionalization and Sub-Saharan violence, 1970-1996.
… fractionalization and categories of violence in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1970 to 1995. By examining these correlations both prior to and after controlling for income, the study is able to determine whether or not various types of conflict are linked to patterns of ethnic grouping. The study uses …
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Essays on Development in Sub-Saharan African Countries
… the most important topics for the development of sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. This dissertation is composed of three chapters that investigate the economic returns to education (Chapter 1 and 2) and assess the policy influence on fertilizer usage (Chapter 3) in two SSA countries, Zimbabwe …
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Genre dispostions in crime films of Sub-Saharan Africa
… invites a study into this largely unexplored subject within African cinematic exegesis. Therefore, this study sought to investigate the audio-visual aesthetics, narrative aspects, and language aspects, of sampled crime films from sub-Saharan Africa, and to relate their thematic framing to …
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The human right to medicines in sub-Saharan Africa
The sub-Saharan African people experience the greatest burden of disease in the world although medicines exist that can treat the majority of the illnesses afflicting them. In fact, many essential medicines are not accessible for most of the people in the region. While the lack of resources is …
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Conflict, Consensus and Modernizing Trajectories in Sub-saharan Africa
<p>Research on the political economy of African states has often focused on explaining the roots of socio-political disfunction or has been pre-occupied with successful cases like Botswana, whose demography and social structures differ markedly from other states on the continent. This dissertation …
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Conflict, Consensus And Modernizing Trajectories In Sub-saharan Africa
<p>Research on the political economy of African states has often focused on explaining the roots of socio-political disfunction or has been pre-occupied with successful cases like Botswana, whose demography and social structures differ markedly from other states on the continent. This dissertation …
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Cloud computing adoption by SMEs in Sub-Saharan Africa.
… communication technologies (ICTs) adoption in sub-Saharan Africa. The research addresses the current state of cloud computing adoption in addition to the issues that can encourage or preclude its use by SMEs in sub-Saharan Africa. Further, the research establishes the extent to which cloud …
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A Study of Educational Achievement in Sub-Saharan Africa
… the growth experiences of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Chapter one presents a new regional measure of educational achievement for SSA developed from three large-scale assessments: Le Programme d'Analyse des Systèmes Educatifs de la CONFEMEN, the Southern and Eastern Africa …
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Three essays on economic development in sub-Saharan Africa
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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