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Showing 1 to 20 of 1181 for “"Sub-Saharan Africa"”.
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Social Underdevelopment In Sub-saharan Africa
For the past thirty years Africa has produced a more noticeably inferior reserve of human capital than other developing regions. This is puzzling because at the inception of independence, the future of Africa looked promising. However, during the 1970s both the political and economic situation in …
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Renewable energy auctions in sub-Saharan Africa
Africa is short of power. Over the past decade, renewable energy auctions have emerged as an effective mechanism to competitively procure utility-scale private power projects. This thesis sought to analyse successful renewable energy auctions in sub-Saharan Africa and identify the elements …
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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
… 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 needed; however, we know very little about the …
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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
… resource dependency, and human development in Africa. Specifically, the Human Development Index (HDI) and six governance indicators from the WGI database are employed to estimate a dynamic panel model on forty-eight sub-Sahara African countries throughout 1996 to 2019 using the Generalised …
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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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Genre dispostions in crime films of Sub-Saharan Africa
… in film and foregrounding the discourse on African cinematic products as purveyors of discernible aesthetics, and platforms of tightening the gaze and critique on other facets of society. Genre is one of the principal elements of cinema, which, invites a study into this largely unexplored …
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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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Determinants of sovereign borrowing choices in Sub-Saharan Africa
… increasing to unsustainable levels among the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Understanding the determinants of external debt to these countries influenced the direction of this study. The existing literature that was examined shed light mostly on the qualitative determinants of sovereign …
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Foreign Aid and Economic Growth in Sub Saharan Africa
… between foreign aid and economic growth in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). The study is based on a sample of 21 ‘low income countries’ as defined by The World Bank, and used data covering a 25 year period from 1991 to 2015. The variables in the study are; growth measured by Gross Domestic Product …
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