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Wirtschaftliche Partnerschaftsabkommen (EPAs) der EU mit Afrika: Dominanz der EU Exportinteressen statt Partnerschaft auf Augenhöhe
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
African states up to October 2014. The EPAs are meant not just to liberalize trade but also to promote economic development in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114231
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Horse trading? EU-African Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
question. Scholarly evaluation of the EPAs reveal double-talk and significant barriers to a sustainable development of African …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114367
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New Nationalism and Development in Africa: Review Article
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 44 (2009) 1, pp. 111-123
About fifty years after the independence of most former colonies on the African continent, books on African nationalism again rank high on the agenda of the international academic discussion. A selection of three recent publications demonstrates the advances made in scholarly analysis in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011331402
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Common roots, shared traits, joint prospects? On the articulation of multiple modernities in Benin and Haiti
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Globalization and transformations of local …, (pp. 151-173). 2007
African religion on development in Benin and Haiti. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011331412
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BTI - Togo Country Report: Political and Socio-Economic Development (2019-2021)
Kohnert, Dirk - In: BTI 2021 - Togo Country Report, forthcoming. 2021
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. The legislative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012302570
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Togo: Failed election and misguided aid at the roots of economic misery
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The holding of early parliamentary elections in Togo on October 14, 2007, most likely the first free and fair Togolese elections since decades, are considered internationally as a litmus test of despotic African regimes’ propensity to change towards democratization and economic prosperity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789402
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Are Non-state Actors Better Innovators? The Ambiguous Role of Non-state Actors in the Transition Process: The Case of Benin and Madagascar
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
indigenous development capacities. Innovators in the informal sector and the agency of the civil society, embedded in the local … socio-cultural setting, but closely linked to transnational social spaces, do often outperform the state's development … invented or adapted to changing requirements of societies. Rather than blaming the failure of development efforts in Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790220
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New Nationalism and Development in Africa
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 44 (2009) 1, pp. 111-123
Review Article:<ul><li>Chipkin, Ivor (2007), Do South Africans Exist? Nationalism, Democracy and the Identity of the “People”. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, ISBN 1868144453, 261 pages.</li><li>Dorman, Sara, Daniel Hammett, and Paul Nugent (eds.) (2007), Making Nations, Creating Strangers. States and...</li></ul>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034742
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Informality as Normality: On the Articulation of Shadow Economy and Society in Africa
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
There exists a longstanding discussion of the role of the informal economy in the development process of Third World … development or should rather be considered as a barrier to modernization. There is a remarkable shift of attention, away from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616886
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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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334764