African states up to October 2014. The EPAs are meant not just to liberalize trade but also to promote economic development in … Africa and thus creating a win-win situation in a partnership on eye-level. However, many Africans suspect the EU of double … NGOs and civil society groups inside and outside Africa. …

conditionality of aid, which had been emphasised as corner stone of the joint EU-Africa strategy. Recent empirical findings on the … linkage between democratization and economic performance in Western Africa are challenged because of lack of viable data. It …

invented or adapted to changing requirements of societies. Rather than blaming the failure of development efforts in Africa … academic analyses on “weak” or “failing states” in Africa and elsewhere. However, the concentration on externally induced … indigenous development capacities. Innovators in the informal sector and the agency of the civil society, embedded in the local …

There exists a longstanding discussion of the role of the informal economy in the development process of Third World … countries, notably in Africa. Much of the controversy was concerned with the question whether the informal sector promotes … development or should rather be considered as a barrier to modernization. There is a remarkable shift of attention, away from …

African states up to October 2014. The EPAs are meant not just to liberalize trade but also to promote economic development in … Africa and thus creating a win-win situation in a partnership on eye-level. However, many Africans suspect the EU of double … NGOs and civil society groups inside and outside Africa. …

nationalism in Africa and elsewhere shows remarkable differences both in its roots and its impact, compared with that of the …

EU- Africa Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are on the brink. In February 2014 West African leaders agreed in … question. Scholarly evaluation of the EPAs reveal double-talk and significant barriers to a sustainable development of African …

nationalism in Africa and elsewhere shows remarkable differences both in its roots and its impact, compared with that of the …

African religion on development in Benin and Haiti. …