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Are the Chinese in Africa More Innovative than the Africans? Comparing Chinese and Nigerian Entrepreneurial Migrants' Cultures of Innovation
Kohnert, Dirk - 2010
The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293531
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EU-African Economic Relations: Continuing Dominance, Traded for Aid?
Kohnert, Dirk - 2008
Promising growth rates, increased trade, and competition among major global players for African resources have boosted … the development and bargaining power of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in relation to the EU. However, Africa's least developed …. Neither the controversy over 'big-push' concepts nor the blaming of African culture as an impediment to growth or good …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293533
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The long-term effects of development aid - Empirical studies in rural West Africa.
Kohnert, Dirk; Elwert, Georg; Bierschenk, Thomas - In: Economics, Biannual Journal of the Institute for … 47 (1993) 1, pp. 83-111
This article is based on field studies in rural West Africa. It concentrates on the socio-structural effects of … least, the growth of indigenous structures of self-help - would require a responsible and democratic government, as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327882
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Magic and witchcraft: Implications for Democratization and poverty-alleviating aid in Africa
Kohnert, Dirk - In: World Development 24 (1996) 8, pp. 1347-1355
The belief in occult forces is still deeply rooted in many African societies, regardless of education, religion, and social class of the people concerned. According to many Africans its incidence is even increasing due to social stress and strain caused (among others) by the process of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327883
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Wirtschaftliche Partnerschaftsabkommen (EPAs) der EU mit Afrika: Dominanz der EU Exportinteressen statt Partnerschaft auf Augenhöhe
Kohnert, Dirk - In: ipg-journal: Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft (2014)
Africa and thus creating a win-win situation in a partnership on eye-level. However, many Africans suspect the EU of double … talk and of promoting selfish export interest at the expense of inclusive growth in African countries. Taking the proposed … NGOs and civil society groups inside and outside Africa. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327887
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African Agency and EU-African Economic Partnership Agreements
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 49 (2014) 3, pp. 149-155
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/10011327898
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Rural class differentiation in Nigeria: Theory and practice - a quantitative approach in the case of Nupeland
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 14 (1979) 3, pp. 295-315
The knowledge of social stratification within the peasantry is a decisive precondition of sustainable economic and political measures for an effective support of agricultural production in least developed countries. This is one of the reasons why also in Nigeria social scientist focus on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327899
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The Transformation of Rural Labour Systems in Colonial and Post-Colonial Northern Nigeria
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Journal of Peasant Studies 13 (1986) 4, pp. 258-271
The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class-formation. A case study of the development of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327901
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Socialism without liberation: Land Reclamation Projects in Guinea-Bissau
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Sociologia Ruralis 28 (1988) 2/3, pp. 161-175
One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327902
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Are the Chinese in Africa More Innovative than the Africans? Comparing Chinese and Nigerian Entrepreneurial Migrants' Cultures of Innovation
Kohnert, Dirk - 2010
The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335584