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Country Concepts and the Rational Actor Trap - Limitations to Strategic Management of International NGOs
Kohnert, Dirk - 2004
Growing criticism of inefficient development aid demanded new planning instruments of donors, including international NGOs (INGOs). A reorientation from isolated project-planning towards holistic country concepts and the increasing rationality of a result-orientated planning process were seen as...
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African Monetary Unions - Dominated by the North? Comment on 'The Common Monetary Area' by Martina Metzger and 'The CFA-Zone' by Jan Suchanek
Kohnert, Dirk - In: New Issues in Regional Monetary Coordination: …, (pp. 177-187). 2005
Monetary coordination is high on the agenda of different regional organizations in Africa. Economic benefits of a common currency, like lower transaction cost, increased macroeconomic stability, or the shielding of central banks against political pressure from nationalist elites and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011331373
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Cultures of Innovation of the African Poor – Common roots, shared traits, joint prospects? On the articulation of multiple modernities in African societies and Black Diasporas in L...
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Auf dem Boden der Tatsachen. Festschrift für Thomas …, (pp. 241-262). 2011
The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the contrary, it often blocks viable indigenous innovation cultures. In African societies and African Diasporas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011331376
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Entfremdung und Ausgrenzung: Afrikas neuer Nationalismus in Zeiten der Globalisierung
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Sociologus 58 (2008) 2, pp. 197-222
Der neue Nationalismus in Afrika und anderswo unterscheidet sich in Ursachen und Auswirkungen wesentlich von dem nationaler Unabhängigkeitsbewegungen der 1960er Jahre. Anders als der erste Nationalismus setzt der zweite weniger auf Einschluss denn auf Ausschluss von Bevölkerungsgruppen;...
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New Markets for Local Experts in Africa?
Kohnert, Dirk - In: More Responsibilities to South Consultants in …, (pp. 63-74). 1995
In the past decades the involvement of local experts in the planning and evaluation of development programs has steadily increased. Ownership of development planning is propagated as major aim of bilateral and international development co-operation. Yet, the quality and performance of many local...
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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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On the Renaissance of African Modes of Thought - The Example of the Belief in Magic and Witchcraft
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Witchcraft in Modern Africa: Witches, witch-hunts and …, (pp. 39-61). 2007
, economic and political structures. Official approaches, designed to cope with the problems of witchcraft violence in Africa … witchcraft violence. Besides this, they might, under certain conditions, provide the outside world with an inspiring new …. However, even in the case of the ‘domestication’ of witchcraft violence, this holds only in so far as appropriate African …
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Donor’s double talk undermines African agency: Comparative study of civic agency in Burkina Faso and Togo
Kohnert, Dirk - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011341120
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Cultures of innovation of the African poor : on the articulation of multiple modernities in African societies and African Diasporas in Latin America
Kohnert, Dirk - 2011 - Rev.
The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the contrary, it often blocks viable indigenous innovation cultures. In African societies and African Diasporas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334798
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New nationalism and development in Africa : review article
Kohnert, Dirk - 2009
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/10011334818