In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a … celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey … contrasts the predominant "transformational" approach (West saves Africa) to occasional swings to a "marginal" approach (West …

Verde and Mozambique's particular geographical and historical contexts. We hold that development success under globalization … group can usefully be defined as success notwithstanding the inexistence of a universally applicable development model. In … Southern Africa. We then assess to what extent these combinations apply to both countries using an empirical analysis. We find …

, inflation, the business cycle, the Phillips curve and related economic developments. The paper will discuss three main issues …

Ideological debates on the role of government in development have focused on two contrasting prescriptions: one calling …

social discount rate, and therefore less likely to support education-based development policies. This conclusion is shown to …

Recent work in the sociology of economic development has emphasized the establishment of a professional government …

-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial …-colonial ethnic institutional traits and contemporary regional development. While this correlation does not necessarily identify a …