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Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...
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Markets need some very strong prerequisites to function well and be a self regulating system. Creating markets, where the most basic institutional factors necessary for the functioning of a market is nonexistent, is futile. In other words, talking about private sector development where markets...
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For several decades, the international community has aspired to integrate the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Yet, no country has achieved the patterns of consumption and production that could sustain global prosperity in the coming decades. Thus, with the...
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Notably, the 20th century was dominated by the legacy of devastating global wars, colonial struggles, and ideological conflicts as well as effort s to establish international systems that would foster global peace and prosperity. Yet, insecurity and corruption not only remain, they have become...
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Seen in historical perspective the main economic predicaments of the present world (such as poverty, inequality …
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Empowerment of the poor does not necessarily make them better off – or make the non-poor worse off. In some cases, empowerment may be inefficient, i.e. a negative-sum game. In other cases, it is a zero-sum game, as the poor can benefit only at the expense of someone else. But in many cases, it...
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and political will to overcoming the harsh poverty experienced by the majority of Nigerians. In this regard, the emerging …
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This article is a prepublication transcript of ‘Has the Empire Struck Back?’ in Albritton, R, Makoto Itoh, Richard Westra and Alan Zuege (eds) Phases of Capitalist Development: Booms, Crises, and Globalization, pp195-215. London: McMillan. ISBN 0 33375 316 X The paper conducts an empirical...
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, predominantly because of their capacity of offering an effective and operational tool against poverty. The herewith paper basically … character of poverty reduction. With regard to the second axis (composed by the 5th part of the corpus), it emphases the …, and the consequent decrease of poverty, on the other hand, hence contributing to sustain the quasi exclusive …
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This paper is part of a large study on the Social Protection in Rural India and China. In this paper, we attempt at a critical appraisal of the historical development and experience of social security initiatives at the all India level. Based on the findings of the review, we visualize a road...
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