urbanisation in africa

• What Became of the Food Price Crisis in 2008?

... the growth of production in Asia and Africa, while production grew slightly faster than utilis... in non-agricultural activities and urbanisation increased as well. Both factors added to growing s...

• Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen
• Vol. 65 Num. 1, Mars 2010

• Message concernant la continuation de la coopération technique et de l'aide financière en faveur des pays en développement

.... Urbanisation . Les mouvements de population enflent aussi à l'... plus à mettre en place des solutions africaines d'envergure régionale. Mais les progrès économi...

• Feuille Fédérale num. 18, 6 mai 2008
• Seccion Unica

• Prospects for Skills-Based Export Growth in a Labor-Abundant, Resource-Rich Developing Economy

In an integrated global economy, specialisation in trade is an increasingly prominent strategy. A labor-abundant, resource-rich economy like Indonesia faces stiff competition in labor-intensive manufactures; meanwhile, rapid growth in demand for resources from China and India exposes it to the 'curse' of resource wealth. This diminishes prospects for more diversified growth based on renewable resources like human capital. Using an international panel data set we explore the influence of resource wealth, foreign direct investment and human capital on the share of skill-intensive products in exports. FDI and human capital increase this share; resource wealth diminishes it. We use the results to compare Indonesia with Thailand and Malaysia. Indonesia's reliance on skill-intensive export...

... studies of Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa (ACEMOGLU, JOHNSON and ROBINSON 2002, 2004). MAURO... example, it is hard to imagine that urbanisation is anything but an endogenous response to other ec...

• Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen
• Vol. 63 Num. 4, Décembre 2008

• National Security Aspects of Western-Middle East Free Trade Agreements

This paper looks upon the developments of Free Trade Agreements in relation to security aspects in the Middle East, with a special concern of the Jordanian situation. The author analyses the trade relations between Jordan and the EU as well as the US and compares these relations to the ones of other countries in the region with the two major western trading blocs. After a description of the historical development of these relations, the author provides a picture of the current situation and brings forward an outlook of the possible developments including problems that might occur.

... by the Pentagon to train countries in Africa to fight and pre-empt militant groups. Yet even if..., and the dislocation that could fuel urbanisation, Arab economic circumstances are worrisome. If the...

• Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen
• Vol. 62 Num. 2, Juin 2007

• Message concernant la continuation de la coopération technique et de l'aide financière en faveur des pays en développement

... la couche d'ozone, Swiss-South African Co-operation Initiative, un fonds pour la formatio... d'années, de voir le processus d'urbanisation prendre fin, ne s'est pas réalisé. Il s'agissait...

• Feuille Fédérale num. 26, 8 juillet 2003
• Seccion Unica