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The notion that economic development in African states requires minimal levels of security has become widely accepted in the international development community. Reforming non-functioning policing systems is an important step toward achieving security, ye
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This paper conceptualises foreign aid as a geopolitical form of rent in order to help distinguish the conditions under which aid is detrimental to sustained economic recovery from those where it is beneficial. Foreign aid shares with natural resource rent and contrived (i.e., government...
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Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their …
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A new methodology, Tracking Under-Reported Financial Flows (TUFF), allows us to systematically gather open-source information.e.g. news reports, case studies, project inventories from embassy websites, and grant and loan data published by recipient govern
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This paper examines China and Africa co-operation from the angle of structural transformation as a major driver of … growth and job creation. Being a bit ahead in the structural transformation process, China can provide ideas, tacit knowledge …
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China.s importance as a major donor outside the traditional Western donors has been increasing and this has helped to …
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This paper draws on both successful and failing cases of industrialization in China to analyse the role of local …
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With the aid of an analytical framework of the Lewis model revised to reflect the experience of China, this paper … China?s growth as achieved during the course of economic reform and the opening-up of the country: the exploitation of the … the approaching turning point in China?s economic development and examines a host of challenges facing the country in …
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Africa.s Regional Economic Communities (RECs). The small, sparsely populated, fragmented, and often isolated economies across … Africa make a …
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Uganda, like other African countries, has implemented reforms to decentralize political authority to local governments and reintroduce multiparty elections. This combination creates opportunities for national partisan struggles to emerge in local arenas a
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