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2024 Africa Export Competitiveness Report

Africa Export Competitiveness Report 2024 presents a comprehensive evaluation of the continent’s export landscape, offering critical insights into…...
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Contributions and Challenges Facing the Financial Sector in Zimbabwe

babwe has a well diversified financial sector. However, the contribution of the sector to economic activity has varied over different periods. This study…...
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Areas of Focus of Capacity Building Interventions in Trade Policy Development and Trade Negotiations in Africa Over the Medium Term, 2007 - 2011

global marketplaces in general and international trade in particular have never been more important to Africa than at present. Success in the region is being…...
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Challenges in the Building of Public Service Capacity in Africa

concept of capacity building has become one of the popular phrases in the development discourse. According to InfoCotonou (Sept., 2003), a newsletter of the…...
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Review of Public Expenditure Management in Sub-Saharan Africa

s report has three parts. Part 1 provides an overview of Public Expenditure Management (PEM) issues in Africa. It focuses in some detail first on the concept…...
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Australia Africa Community Engagement Scheme: the value of civil society Annual Report 2014-2015

s is the fourth annual report for the Australia Africa Community Engagement Scheme (AACES) an AUD 83 million partnership program between the Department of…...
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Implications of current Cocoa Price Hikes on African Trade and Macroeconomic Performance

future of cocoa prices is uncertain, as it depends on various factors like weather patterns and disease outbreaks. While soaring cocoa prices present…...
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Are Interest Payments on Debt Derailing Fiscal Consolidation?

s policy brief provides a review of the performance of the first quarter of the 2018 National Budget. The paper provides context by looking at both the…...
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Strengthening National Statistical Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Lessons from Ugandan Experience

is now recognized internationally as home truth that better statistics are an essential part of an enabling environment for development. Better statistics do…...
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Social Capital and Poverty: Conceptual Framework and Evidence

ing the last two decades the concept of social capital is being actively popularized by scholars, namely economists, sociologists, political scientists and…...