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Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi
(2009-12-28)
Income Generation in the African and Coloured Population: Three essays on the origins of household incomes in South Africa
(2005)
The dissertation comprises three empirical analyses focusing on the origins of South African households’ income sources. The income sources are categorized to reflect the households’ varying extent of economic core sector ...
Essays on Firm Turnover, Growth, and Investment Behavior in Ethiopian Manufacturing
(2006)
This thesis analyses the dynamics and investment behavior of Ethiopian manufacturing firms in post-reform period using establishment level industrial census panel data from 1996 to 2003. Three related topics such as firm ...
Can Africa Reduce Poverty by Half by 2015?
(Blackwell Publishing, 2007)
This study uses simulations to explore the possibility of halving the percentage of people living in extreme poverty in Africa by 2015. It is shown that initial levels of inequality and per capita consumption determine the ...
An Empirical Test of Purchasing Power Parity in Selected African Countries - a Panel Data Approach
(2001)
The paper tests whether the theory of Purchasing Power Parity holds in a selected sample of twenty African countries. The paper employs a panel unit root test to test whether the real exchange rates in the panel are mean ...