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- A riddle explained: gender disparities in east african education
Author: Tia Linda Zuze
Source: African Review of Economics and Finance, pp 29-59 (Volume 7 Issue 2, December 2015)
Read MoreThere can be little question that studying the relationship between education
and inequality will benefit public investment in education. Although primary
school enrolment for African girls has increased in many parts of the developing
world, gender differences in performance... Read More - Energy transition in africa
Author: Thokozani Simelane and Mohamed Abdel-Rahman (eds)
Source: African Review of Economics and Finance, pp 137-140 (Volume 7 Issue 2, December 2015)
Read MoreThere is a story that Walter Bgoya, the renowned former editor of Tanzania
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Publishing House, recounted to his audience at an African Conference recently. As
an 11-year-old boy in rural Tanzania, Bgoya was taught by the colonial missionaries
to regularly confess his sins. - Integral green Zimbabwe: An african phoenix rising
Author: Elizabeth Mamukwa, Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer (eds)
Source: African Review of Economics and Finance, pp 141-143 (Volume 7 Issue 2, December 2015)
Read MoreThe ‘Africa rising’ narrative has generated much debate in recent times. ObengOdoom’s (2014) contribution to the Forum for Social Economics argues that this
narrative hides other equally (if not more) important political economic processes
and is misleading in its... Read More - Oiling the urban economy: land, labour, capital, and the state in Sekondi-Takorad, Ghana
Author: Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Source: African Review of Economics and Finance, pp 132-136 (Volume 7 Issue 2, December 2015)
Read MoreOiling the urban economyis a pioneering book with a very apt title. Its focus on
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the impact which the Ghanaian oil boom had on urbanisation, is timely. - Central banks and fractional reserve banking: money creation out of nothing?
Author: Jannie Rossouw, Vishnu Padayachee and Bradley Bordiss
Source: African Review of Economics and Finance, pp 105-131 (Volume 7 Issue 2, December 2015)
Read MoreThe view is often held that central banks have little or no connection to the
society within which they exist, although their policy decisions impact directly
on people, institutions and society. While this view has gained much attention in
the media and in some academic circ... Read More - Is Zambia ready for inflation targeting?
Author: Munacinga C.H. Simatel, Eric Schaling and Paul Alagidede
Source: African Review of Economics and Finance, pp 1-28 (Volume 7 Issue 2, December 2015)
Read MoreSince inflation targeting (IT) began about a quarter of a century ago, a number of
industrialised and an increasing number of emerging and developing countries
have adopted it as a framework for conducting monetary policy. Empirical
evidence from developed economies suggests ... Read More - Striking where it hurts: the political economy of graduate teachers strikes and labour relations in Ghana’s public education sector
Author: Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako-Gyampah
Source: African Review of Economics and Finance, pp 60-83 (Volume 7 Issue 2, December 2015)
Read MoreThis article examines the 2005 and 2006 strike actions of the National Association
of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT). It seeks to investigate the root causes of teacher
grievances during the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government’s administration;
government responses to thes... Read More - The effects of transaction costs on the optimal price and production risk management for cocoa-exporting countries
Author: Williams Ohemeng, Bo Sjö and Michael Danquah
Source: African Review of Economics and Finance, pp 84-104 (Volume 7 Issue 2, December 2015)
Read MoreThis paper derives and estimates empirically the role of transactions costs
for the optimal price-risk hedge ratios for four cocoa producing SSA countries
(Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire). Using monthly data from 1966
to 2009, transaction costs are introduce... Read More
- A riddle explained: gender disparities in east african education