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Does colonialism have an impact on the current language situation in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Buzasi, Katalin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Recent studies show that colonization and ethnolinguistic fragmentation have relevant long-lasting impacts on ex-colonies and might explain development and underdevelopment of different parts of the world. The aim of this paper is to connect these two strands of the literature to some extent by...

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Why Geographic Factors are Necessary in Development Studies

Ballinger, Clint - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper proposes that the resurgence of geographic factors in the study of uneven development is not due simply to the recurrent nature of intellectual fashions, nor necessarily because arguments that rely on geographic factors are less simplistic than before, nor because they avoid...

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Taking Stock of Research on Regional Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa

Nkamleu, Guy Blaise; Fox, Louise - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This study reviews a host of issues related to international migration in Sub-Saharan Africa and presents an overview of the state of the art of research and knowl-edge. Its aim is to identify policies and research areas that will improve understanding and management of migration in Sub-Sahara...

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Principal Constituents Decomposition of Economic Development—A Domestic Level Analysis of Sub-Saharan African Countries

Deng, Binbin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper tries to answer the question of what should be the main focuses to improve the poverty situation in Sub-Saharan Africa, through a liberal perspective, by decomposing the economic development in the region into several principal constituents on the domestic level. Emphasis is made on...

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Social Development – A Multidimensional Approach To Social Development Analysis. Country Level Evidence for Year 2011

Lechman, Ewa - 2014

The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...

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Breve ou Longo? Um estudo comparativo entre as contribuições de Hobsbawm e Arrighi para a interpretação da História Econômica do século XX

Souza, Luiz Eduardo Simões de - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This study aims to conduct a comparative study between the visions of Eric Hobsbawm and Giovanni Arrighi on the economic transformations of the twentieth century. In our view, there are differences in methodology and approach which makes the comparison a matter of methodological discussion in...

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Socialism without liberation: Land Reclamation Projects in Guinea-Bissau

Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1988

One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land...

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'As Close as Lips and Teeth' The Daiichi Ginkō and Megata Tanetarō in Korea

Schiltz, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

It is by now established knowledge that Japanese interventionist policies versus Korea cannot have been motivated by economic profits. Literature in this respect instead points to socio-political, perhaps military explanations of this instant of Japanese imperialism. Whereas this insight is...

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The Transformation of Rural Labour Systems in Colonial and Post-Colonial Northern Nigeria

Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1986

The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class-formation. A case study of the develop¬ment of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better...

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Romer’s Charter Cities v. Colonization, Imperialism, and Colonialism: A General Characterization

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

brutal images of failed (neo)colonialism. This essay characterizes colonization, imperialism, and colonialism in order to …, and colonialism. The characterization finds that while colonization, imperialism, and colonialism share strong historical …-city model is voluntary participation of all players. Colonization, imperialism, and colonialism were forceful and repressive …

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