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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
provision from the start. Rather than assuming that ethnicity underlies service distribution in Africa, we argue that … remains highly uneven across the country. Most studies of service provision in Africa assume that politicians will target … councillors and their mayor helps to account for the variation in service provision across South Africa's municipalities. We test …
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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. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 159 (2022), pp. 1-18
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Application of ICT in the co-production of social services
Kozak, Anna - In: Journal of economics & management 45 (2023) 1, pp. 441-467
Aim/purpose - The purpose of this article was to identify the information and communication technology (ICT) tools fostering the co-production of social services, acknowledging that the technological environment is an important contextual condition enhancing the development of co-production....
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Migration, Displacement and Refugees : An overview of The Role of Some Regional African Organizations
Alaowei Al-Bashir Lekan, Da-Cocodia - 2022
overview of migration, displacement and refugees shows that: Africa is known for its long history of migration within and … biases, being other causes of migration, displacement and refugees in Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013298829
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Communication Technologies and the Public Service : Is It the Case of Citizens Inclusion in the Public Service Standard in Albania?
Musaraj, Arta; Malltezi, Argita - 2020
The Albanian challenges have been insistent not just for domestic researchers, academics, or even Albanian citizens; they pique a lot of people in different geographic positions, first of all, the European ones, because by a strong European drive Albanian progresses have been oriented. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014102706
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In the Shadow of Violence : A New Perspective on Development
North, Douglass C. - 2015
This paper extends the North, Wallis, and Weingast (2009) framework for understanding the problems of development. Our approach distinguishes two development problems that are normally conflated. Most approaches to development focus on the second problem, namely, the transition of societies from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016711
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Implementing the African Continental Free Trade Area : A Simple, Scalable, and Fast Computational Approach for Algorithmic Governance
Atkinson, Craig - 2022
-centred algorithmic governance. To bolster the resilience of Africa’s markets to social, ecological, and epidemiological disruption, such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240841
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Ethnofederalism and ethnic voting
Bluhm, Richard; Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul - 2021
We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study design that exploits the 2010 constitutional reform in Kenya, which substantially increased the number of primary administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624851
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The Role of Institutions, Ethnic Fractionalization and Colonization and their Impact on Economic Growth and Development in Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Kenya
Hall, Sarah; Ollimo, Mabel - 2022
In this thesis, we will explore what led to the economic development and growth or lack of, in four African Countries with an imperial history. The countries chosen, have two different modern trajectories, the first of the countries; The Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya have a history of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013291755
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Ethnofederalism and Ethnic Voting
Bluhm, Richard; Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul - 2021
We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study design that exploits the 2010 constitutional reform in Kenya, which substantially increased the number of primary administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211015