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Historical origins of persistent inequality in Nigeria

Archibong, Belinda - 2016

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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Approaches to supporting local and community development: Brazil and the Vale SA model of corporate interaction

Filgueiras, Liesel; Rabetim, Andreia; Aché, Isabel - 2017

Reflection about the role of corporate social investment in Brazil, associated with the presence of a large economic enterprise, is the major stimulus of this paper. It seeks to present how cross-sector governance can contribute to the social development of a city and how this process can be led...

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Competing cleavages in sub-Saharan Africa? How economic distance affects ethnic bloc politics

Conroy-Krutz, Jeffrey - 2016

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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Horizontal inequalities and affirmative action: An analysis of attitudes towards redistribution across groups in Africa

Langer, Arnim; Stewart, Frances; Schroyens, Maarten - 2016

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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Mining and economic development: Did China's WTO accession affect African local economic development?

Addison, Tony; Boly, Amadou; Mveyange, Anthony - 2016

China's WTO Accession): it is not enough to assume, given Africa's high spatial inequality, that local economies will …

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The impact of mining on spatial inequality: Recent evidence from Africa

Addison, Tony; Boly, Amadou; Mveyange, Anthony - 2017

This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … bolstering socio-economic development in Africa. …

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Extractive industries: recognizing and managing the risks in resource-dependent economies

Addison, Tony; Roe, Alan - 2024

This paper analyses the risks facing resource-dependent countries. These include: (i) economic mismanagement (the 'resource curse'); (ii) political mismanagement; (iii) environmental damage (climate change and the destruction of natural capital). It distinguishes 'risk' (which can be addressed...

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Extractive industries: transforming companies for better development outcomes

Addison, Tony; Roe, Alan - 2024

Companies in the oil, gas, and mining sectors face ever intensifying scrutiny over their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices and impacts: from civil society but also from investment funds and other stakeholders with ESG mandates. Companies with good practices-and the paper...

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Ethnicity is not public service destiny: The political logic of service distribution in South Africa

Porten, John; Rhee, Inbok; Gibson, Clark C. - 2021

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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Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in Africa

Funjika, Patricia; Getachew, Yoseph Yilma - 2019

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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