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    Region-building and regional integration in Africa

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2014
    The success of Africa’s region-building and regional integration efforts is linked to the potential leadership role of strategic countries in their respective sub-regions such as South Africa in Southern Africa; Nigeria in West Africa; Kenya in Eastern Africa; the conflict-afflicted Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in Central Africa; and Algeria in North Africa.
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    Peacebuilding, power, and politics in Africa

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2012
    Highlighting the diverse expressions and contexts of peacebuilding helps to understand the intended and unintended consequences and limitations of peacebuilding programs in Africa.
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    Africa's peacemakers: Nobel Peace Laureates of African descent

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2014
    This volume seeks to draw lessons for peacemaking, civil rights, socio-economic justice, environmental protection, nuclear disarmament and women’s rights, based on the rich experiences of the thirteen Nobel peace laureates of African descent who won the prize between 1950 and 2011.
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    The structure and evolution of employment in Jordan

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    This paper uses the Jordan Labour Market Panel Survey of 2010 to study changes in the structure and evolution of employment in Jordan over the past quarter century. The paper points that the utilised data offer important advantage in terms of identifying informal employment in its various guises.
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    India - Africa Business Innovation Meeting (Intellecap)

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    The Knowledge Partnership Programme (KPP) funded by UK-DFID, in collaboration with Sankalp Forum organised a meeting to bring together the Indian and African Government leaders and business groups. The meeting included High Commissioners from Kenya and Ethiopia; and representatives from Ghana and Rwanda.
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    Natural resources, volatility, and inclusive growth: perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    Countries endowed with natural resources such as oil and gas are faced with important economic challenges. This paper takes stock of the economic performance of resource-rich countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) over the past forty years.
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    The patterns of early retirement among Jordanian men

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    Labour force participation (LFP) contributes to the economy's capacity to produce goods and services; however, the prevalence of a high rate of early retirement lowers LFP and has consequences on the economy. Utilising detailed data from Jordan Labour Market Panel Survey, this study examines early retirement patterns among Jordanian men.
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    Resource rents, political institutions and economic growth

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    The curse associated with oil and other point-source rents is real, though contemporary literature suggests that it is not inevitable. This paper contributes to the empirical literature on oil and other point-source resource curse, but its particular contribution is embedded in the measurement of the impact of resource rents on economic growth.
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    Stock market assessment of bank risk: evidence from the Maghreb region

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    The stability of the banking system is an important concern for both regulatory authorities and bank stakeholders. This paper examines the ability of stock market investors to monitor bank risk for a sample of listed banks in Tunisia and Morocco over the period 2003-2009.
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    An empirical growth model for major oil exporters

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    This paper develops a long-run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. The paper uses quarterly data on nine major oil economies, six of which are current members of OPEC.

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