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Economic Policy Uncertainty and Structural Transformation in Africa: The Conditional Role of Human Resource Development

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The present study has investigated two objectives. First, it examines the unconditional impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on Africa's structural transformation. Second, it explores the conditional role of human resource development in the nexus between economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and structural transformation.
Ekene ThankGod Emeka   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cardosoa, a new genus of the subtribe Anisopappinae (Athroismeae, Asteraceae)

open access: yesAnales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid, 2010
The new genus Cardosoa of the subtribe Anisopappinae (Athroismeae, Asteraceae) is described for the species Anisopappus athanasioides from the Angola Plateau.
Santiago Ortiz
doaj   +1 more source

Angola's infrastructure : a continental perspective [PDF]

open access: yes
Infrastructure made a net contribution of around 1 percentage point to Angola's improved per capita growth performance in recent years, despite unreliable power supplies and poor roads, which each holding back growth by 0.2 percentage points. Raising the
Foster, Vivien, Pushak, Nataliya
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Low and deficient niacin status and pellagra are endemic in postwar Angola [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
BACKGROUND: Outbreaks of pellagra were documented during the civil war in Angola, but no contemporary data on the incidence of pellagra or the prevalence of niacin deficiency were available.
Cheung, E   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

Impact of Technological Innovation, Environmental Policy, and Policy Inclusion on Renewable Energy Adoption in Sub‐Sahara Africa

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the factors influencing renewable energy consumption and renewable electricity in Sub‐Sahara Africa (SSA) using the Lewbel 2SLS approach, panel quantile regression and Driscoll and Kraay estimator. It focuses on a panel dataset covering 41 countries from 1998 to 2020.
Emmanuel K. Manu, Simplice A. Asongu
wiley   +1 more source

The development of the Huambo Province in Angola - The application of a spatial interaction model to simulate the movement from autarky to external integration [PDF]

open access: yes
Huambo province in Angola has been detached from the outside world since the begining of the nineties. First due to the civil war in Angola and from then on due to the degradation of the roads and destruction of the railways.
Silvia Amaral, Tomaz Dentinho
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Conducta perioperatoria en paciente con apnea obstructiva del sueño: A propósito de un caso

open access: yesRevista Cubana de Anestesiología y Reanimación, 2011
Introducción: A pesar de la alta frecuencia del síndrome de apnea - hipopnea obstructiva del sueño y de sus graves complicaciones perioperatorias, el riesgo de estos pacientes se subestima.
Edwin García García   +4 more
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Towards cross-lingual alerting for bursty epidemic events [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Background: Online news reports are increasingly becoming a source for event based early warning systems that detect natural disasters. Harnessing the massive volume of information available from multilingual newswire presents as many challenges as ...
Collier, Nigel
core   +5 more sources

ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

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