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Horizontal inequality by ethnic group has remained remarkably persistent for wealth, education, and access to certain services in Nigeria. While significant gains in the reduction of inequality and improvement in access have been made for more locally administered services, outcomes are stickier...
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This paper examines China and Africa co-operation from the angle of structural transformation as a major driver of …, opportunities as well as development finances in Africa's transformation. We review critical parts of China's transformation to see … if these ideas are relevant for Africa. We use empirical evidence from China-Africa co-operation and find that China …
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recipient governments - about Chinese development finance activities in Africa that can be updated and improved through crowd … Africa. Ground-truthing generally revealed close agreement between open-source data and answers to protocol questions from …
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Does economic standing cross-cut ethnicity in African electoral politics? In many countries in the region, ethnicity appears to be a major consideration in individuals' political decision-making. However, there is significant variation in the extent to which coethnics support parties en bloc;...
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Inequalities between ethnic or racial groups, defined as horizontal inequalities, are pervasive and persistent. They persist due to cumulative and reinforcing inequalities arising from unequal access to different types of capital. Affirmative action policies can provide promising opportunities...
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China's WTO Accession): it is not enough to assume, given Africa's high spatial inequality, that local economies will …
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remains highly uneven across the country. Most studies of service provision in Africa assume that politicians will target … provision from the start. Rather than assuming that ethnicity underlies service distribution in Africa, we argue that … councillors and their mayor helps to account for the variation in service provision across South Africa's municipalities. We test …
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also going into Uganda and South Africa while South Africa is the darling of Western donors. Chinese funded projects are …
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This paper draws on both successful and failing cases of industrialization in China to analyse the role of local governments in fostering the growth of light manufacturing. The broad spectrum of support types and the intimate knowledge of enterprise conditions by these local governments make...
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This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of...
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