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Dar es Salaam is exceptional in East Africa for having a record of relatively little ethnic tension, and remaining tranquil and true to its name, the 'harbour of peace'. This paper explores the interface between ethnic and national identities in Tanzania's capital city, focusing on its ethnic...
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This paper aims at understanding the dynamics of sectarian violence in the city of Beirut, by looking at the early phase of violence in the Lebanese civil war (1975-90), and the process of dividing Beirut into various sectarian enclaves controlled by the warring militias. The paper aims to show...
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As the world moves towards its so-called urban 'tipping point',urbanization in the global South has increasingly come to be portrayed as the portent of a dystopian future characterized by ever-mounting levels of anarchy and brutality. The association between cities, violence, and disorder is not...
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Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since …
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The article explores the various co-ordination mechanisms between the state and the business community in Ghana, and …
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. Cross section data on 2,691 clients and non-clients households from Ghana is used to test the hypothesis of loan price …
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In this paper we discuss aid and the environment in Ghana. Our analysis indicates that expenditure by the government of … Ghana has increased consistently since 2000, with seven sectors weakly linked to the environment taking about 78.9 per cent …
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countries. However, for Tanzania and Ghana, two major aid recipients, aid did not seem to have been equally beneficial. This … exchange rate. In Ghana, declining aid in the 1970s was associated with lacking growth while the reactivation of aid flows in …
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so in Ghana, with a focus on the role of aid in the process of state building and state transition in these two countries …. Before the 1960s, South Korea and Ghana shared approximately similar levels of GDP per capita. However, while South Korea … achieved rapid economic development and democracy in one generation, Ghana suffered from slow development and a general …
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Climate variability poses a major risk to agricultural incomes in Africa. In Ghana, most of the country's poor people … investigates the impact of climate variability on household welfare in the area using a three-period panel data from the Ghana … Living Standards Survey, in addition to data on annual rainfall and temperature for northern Ghana for the period 1991 to …
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