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African Migration to Europe: Obscured Responsibilities and Common Misconceptions

Kohnert, Dirk - 2007

responsibility for the continuing migration pressure: First, because it fostered over decades corrupt and autocratic regimes with … of the underlying factors for politically motivated migration. Second, the EU contributed to Africa's economic misery due … EU programs and concepts to fight African migration are questionable. Even development-oriented approaches are bound to …

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Crisis Region Western Africa : the cradle of African migration to Europe

Kohnert, Dirk - 2007 - Rev.

cradle of migration from Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe, were most African migrants with overseas destinations live. The … European Union shares dual responsibility for the continuing migration pressure: First, because they fostered over decades … to be felt today, and constitutes one of the underlying factors for politically motivated migration. Secondly, the EU …

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Democratisation via elections in an African 'narco state'? The case of Guinea-Bissau

Kohnert, Dirk - 2010

Recent development cooperation with Guinea-Bissau, focusing on good governance, statebuilding and conflict prevention, did not contribute to democratization nor to the stabilization of volatile political, military and economic structures. The portrayal of Guinea- Bissau as a failed...

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Die UEMOA und die CFA-Zone: Eine neue Kooperations-Kultur im frankophonen Afrika?

Kohnert, Dirk - In: Regionale Integration – Neue Dynamiken in Afrika, …, (pp. 115-136). 2005

The WAEMU and the Franc CFA-Zone: A new culture of co-operation in Francophone Africa? The CFA-zone is basically composed of two sub-zones, characterised by significant structural economic and political differences within and between its member countries: the West African Economic and Monetary...

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The long-term effects of development aid : Empirical studies in rural West Africa

Bierschenk, Thomas - In: Economics : a biannual coll. of recent German … 47 (1993), pp. 83-111

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Langzeitfolgen der Entwicklungshilfe : empirische Untersuchungen im ländlichen Westafrika

Bierschenk, Thomas - In: Africa Spectrum 26 (1991) 2, pp. 155-180

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Donor's double talk undermines African agency : comparative study of civic agency in Burkina Faso and Togo ; the fabrication of public action in countries <<under an aid regime>> A...

Kohnert, Dirk - 2015 - Draft

Despite a long-standing controversy about aid-effectiveness in general and the impact of aid-dependency on governance in particular, little is known on the effect of donors policies on civic agency for democratization in aid dependent autocratic regimes. In this study it is argued that the...

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No change in sight : Togo's political and socio-economic development (2017 - 2019)

Kohnert, Dirk - 2020

The Gnassingbé clan has ruled the country since 1967. The demand for political alternance, initiated by institutional and electoral reforms, constituted the major contentious issue between the government and the challengers of the Gnassingbé regime throughout the survey period. An alliance of...

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African agency and EU- African Economic Partnership Agreements

Kohnert, Dirk - 2014

This article provides a review of literature on African Agency and the drivers of change within EU–African trade politics in negotiations on Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and African governments.

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Togo : thorny transitions and misguided aid at the roots of economic misery

Kohnert, Dirk - 2011

The parliamentary elections of October 2007, the first free Togolese elections since decades, were meant to correct at least partially the rigged presidential elections of 2005. Western donors considered it as a litmus test of despotic African regimes' propensity to change towards...

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