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    Financing higher education in Africa

    World Bank, 2010
    This report is a follow-up to the 2008 study published by the World Bank, Accelerating Catch Up—Tertiary Education for Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, which spelled out the case for more knowledge-intensive growth in Africa and described the critical role of higher education in this endeavor. It examines current practices in financing higher education in Sub-Saharan Afric
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    Africa capacity indicators 2012: capacity development for agricultural transformation and food security

    African Capacity Building Foundation, 2012
    A core message in the report is that improving the productivity and the economic returns of agriculture has immediate effects on poverty and hunger in at least three important ways: a) it increases the productivity and incomes of the majority of Africa’s poor, who work primarily in agriculture; b) it reduces food prices, which affect real incomes and poverty in urban areas; and, c) it gen
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    Chinese agriculture development cooperation in Africa: narratives and politics

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
    Chinese agriculture engagements are redefining the 'aid‘ landscape, moving from a paradigm of development assistance to one of development cooperation mixed with investment. China‘s leadership asserts that this approach infuses new life into South-South cooperation and promot[es] the establishment of a fair and rational new international political and economic order.
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    Tales of shit: community-led total sanitation in Africa

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2010
    This particular issue of Participatory Learning and Action focuses on community-led total sanitation (CLTS) in Africa. 
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    Hard times: the world economic crisis and emerging capacity challenges fo Africa

    African Capacity Building Foundation, 2010
    The world economy has changed significantly in recent times. With greater financial globalisation, there emerged a mistaken perception that 'fathomless' capital was a pattern of this 'new world'. It soon became apparent that the recent financial crisis was a result of fragility in the financial system – in turn a product of limited/lack of transparency in the system.
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    The last golden land? Chinese private companies go to Africa

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
    A new dynamic presence is spreading rapidly and widely across Africa: that of Chinese private enterprises. For these firms, Africa is ‘the last golden land’ of economic opportunity.
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    Regionalism and economic integration in Africa: a conceptual and theoretical perspective

    African Capacity Building Foundation, 2014
    A well-established strand of the literature on regionalism and economic integration has made clear that economic, geopolitical, and socio-cultural relationships across the globe, for which Africa is no exception, have been changing rapidly in the last few decades. African leaders
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    Higher education and economic growth in Africa (2006)

    Journal of Development Studies, 2006
    This paper uses panel data over the 1960–2000 period, a modified neoclassical growth equation, and a dynamic panel estimator to investigate the effect of higher education human capital on economic growth in African countries.
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    Universities and economic development in Africa

    Centre for Higher Education Transformation, 2001
    This study attempts to address the gaps in research on the characteristics and dynamics of the relationship between higher education and development, and the contextual and institutional factors that facilitate or inhibit these relationships.
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    Test it and they might come: Improving the uptake of digital tools in transparency and accountability initiatives

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2016
    Information and communications technologies (ICTs) and data play an increasingly visible role in transparency and accountability initiatives (TAIs). There has been little research on how the selection of ICT tools influences the success of these initiatives. This article reports on research into TAI tool selection processes in South Africa and Kenya.

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