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Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is the last nail in the coffin for Industrialization and development of low-income countries

ber of the ACP, should endeavour to re-strategize itself to benefit from the opportunities such trading blocks create through increased trade. Trade is likely…...
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Value for Money Assessment Oxfam South Africa Australia Africa Community Engagement Scheme (AACES) Capacity Building component

ams AACES program in South Africa was selected for this process as the program team sought to build on previous work undertaken around Value for Money (VfM)…...
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Global Economic Prospects, June 2023

bal growth is projected to slow significantly in the second half of this year, with weakness continuing in 2024. Inflation pressures persist, and tight…...
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Bridging the Technological Divide : Technology Adoption by Firms in Developing Countries

y of the main problems facing developing countries today and tomorrow--growth, poverty reduction, inequality, food insecurity, job creation, recovery from the…...
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Stuck Near Ten Billion: Public-Private Infrastructure Finance in Sub-Saharan Africa

y stress the critical role of the private sector in filling yawning sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) infrastructure finance gaps, only widened by the pandemic. Our…...
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Building Capacity for Domestic Resource Mobilization: The Role of Development Partners

icas ability to deliver on the ambitious post-2015 Agenda (also called the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals) and the African Union Agenda 2063 largely…...
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Export Development Strategy, Export Success Stories and Lessons for Africa:

s publications tries to answer to a question whether there are special features of Africa that would help explain the massive poverty and inequality that…...
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Tobacco Consumption and Household Expenditure in Togo: Unveiling the Economic Impact and the Need for Targeted Anti-Smoking Interventions

consumption of tobacco in Togo has significant economic and health implications, with a particular impact on low and middle-income households in rural areas.…...
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The IMF, Africa, and Climate ChangeMaking Sense of an Implausible Trilogy

dence suggests that Africa is the most vulnerable continent to climate change. While African countries contribute relatively little to global emissions, they…...
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G5 Sahel Region Country Climate and Development Report

five countries of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger (the G5) in the Sahel region of Africa are among the least developed countries in the world…...