Political Economy of development in Africa
The political economy of urbanisation and development in sub Saharan Africa
... Notes for Figures 1.1 & 1.2: Sample includes all countries that have a minimum population threshold for the classification of a settlement as urban, even if this is not the primary or sole criterion for ...
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The political economy of development assistance: peril to government quality dynamics in Africa
... of development assistance, a great bulk of studies have focused on the effect of aid flows on GDP growth and other macroeconomic variables(investment or public ...role development assistance play in good ...
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Towards a political economy of incentives in managing for development results
... strong political and economic interests, with the end of the cold war, space has been opened up for that other main aim of international aid: to better the human ...and political problem but also as a ...
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The Political Economy of Land and Chieftaincy Disputes in Contemporary Africa: Examples from Central Nigeria
... communal development and act as effective link between the people and the central ...of political power during the pre-colonial period has undergone series of ...
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Essays in political economy: elections, public finance and service delivery in South Africa
... It is thus not surprising that the use of the satellite images is starting to spill over from weather forecasting to the social sciences. Taking advantage of the revolution in remote sensing technology and advances in ...
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Africa and the International Political Economy: Meeting the Challenges of the Global Economic Meltdown
... international economy had been entrenched on the Bretton Woods system since the end of the Second World ...and development, either at the unilateral, bilateral or multi – lateral ...South Africa, ...
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A political economy analysis of human resources for health (HRH) in Africa
... Within development circles, the issue of relevance be- came the most severe criticism of a political economy ...“While political economy studies appear to be useful in providing insight ...
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Political economy of development: Health as a development outcome, micro evidence, and heterogeneity of democracies and autocracies
... of development, this chapter focuses on infant m ortality, defined as death w ithin th e first year of ...Sub-Saharan Africa has been lagging behind other regions in reducing infant m ortality, since 1980 ...
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Essays on the political economy of development in Nigeria
... In recent years, there has been an increasing awareness that climate change can have destabilizing effect on societies. Through its effect on crop yields, climate variability has been found to affect the risks of armed ...
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The State of Africa in the Global Political Economy
... 1990s, Africa has scored a positive political and economic recovery, its status in the global power structure has still been marginal ...of development as there has still been the significant gap to ...
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The political economy of tourism development: A critical review
... Sub-Saharan Africa that had seen little benefits from four decades of tourism development (Ashley et ...market-led development thinking that emerged in the 1990s in which development is ...
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‘Smart development’ An essay on a new political economy of the environment
... investments in many periphery countries are - in part - constrained by the (emerging) unequal income distribution, which again determines that the local ‘surplus’ is being squandered by luxurious consumption, transferred ...
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Africa: A political Economy of continued crisis
... outside Africa. One of my critiques of existing policy-making about Africa, and from within the continent, is that it fails to unpack the dynamics of uneven development on the ...course Africa ...
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Globalization, New Regionalism and the Challenge of Development in Africa
... international economy is the framework in which the developmental process must occur, “there has not be a single case of successful development arising from the interplay of free forces” (Bremen, ...of ...
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The Political Economy of International Debt and Third World Development
... Once the Third World country's external debt had increased at rates from 20-30 percent over a period of ten years, and the levels of external debt had begun to approach 40-50 percent or [r] ...
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Essays on the political economy of development: elections, public investment and regional economic growth in post 2002 Turkey
... simple political economic regional growth model –, our findings may indeed support Acemoğlu and Robinson (2013b)’s ...Turkey’s economy during the 2000s where partisan factionalism had modest effects and did ...
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Understanding sustainable biofuel development: a sub-Saharan Africa perspective.
... social- political-economic hierarchal dynamics interrelate with environmental and community integrity ...biofuel development, von Maltitz et ...and development and their role in progressing towards ...
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The political economy of electricity access : Lessons from Mozambique
... standards for the poorest people, in terms of amenities and services. For example, in many cases, increasing access to electricity reduces household expenditures for energy services (such as kerosene) by replacing them ...
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The Political Economy of Development: A Critical Assessment of Balochistan, Pakistan
... Investment and economic growth cannot take place in an environment of political instability. Due to the reasons mentioned above Balochistan remained unstable for the larger part of its history with Pakistan. ...
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Decoding the donor gaze: documentary, aid and AIDS in Africa
... in Africa; a theme that can be traced back to nineteenth century Royal Anthropological Society reports where tales of African men’s dominance over women and children ...
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