Explaining Growth in African Countries – What Matters?

Investigating Agricultural Productivity Growth and Convergence in Iran and Eastern African Countries

The issue of convergence or divergence of productivity has important policy for regional poverty reduction and increasing standards of living. If productivity converges to a common level without intervention, there is little need for explicit policies in lagging regions to promote catch up. On the other hand, productivity has divergence trend, then explicit policies would be needed to prevent f...

What Matters in Colonoscopy?

doscopist, finding serrated lesions, especially sessile-serrated adenomas, is not easy. They are usually flat, pale and easily overlooked. These characteristics are quite different from those of traditional serrated adenomas which are polypoid and easily detected on examination. Sessile-serrated adenomas are usually recognized more in the ascending colon and can be easily missed during colonosc...

Prevalence of hepatitis A across various countries in the Middle East, African and Eastern European countries

Economic Growth in 24 African Countries: a Panel ARDL Approach

This study complements existing literature by examining the nexus between energy consumption (EC), CO2 emissions (CE) and economic growth (GDP) in 24 African countries using a panel ARDL approach. The following findings are established. First, there is a long run relationship between EC, CE and GDP. Second, a long term effect from CE to GDP and EC is apparent, with reciprocal paths. Third, the ...

Finding What Matters in Questions

In natural language question answering (QA) systems, questions often contain terms and phrases that are critically important for retrieving or finding answers from documents. We present a learnable system that can extract and rank these terms and phrases (dubbed mandatory matching phrases or MMPs), and demonstrate their utility in a QA system on Internet discussion forum data sets. The system r...