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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
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Togo : thorny transitions and misguided aid at the roots of economic misery
Kohnert, Dirk - 2011
of political conditionality of aid, which had been emphasised also as corner stone of the joint EU-Africa strategy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334797
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New markets for local experts in Africa?
Kohnert, Dirk - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334891
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EU-African economic relations : continuing dominance, traded for aid?
Kohnert, Dirk - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003727308
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EU-African economic relations : continuing dominance, traded for aid?
Kohnert, Dirk - 2008
the development and bargaining power of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in relation to the EU. However, Africa's least developed … global players for Africa's resources is resulting in windfall profits for Africa. The latter is leading to a revival of … Africa's power elite, but not necessarily for Africa's poor. -- economic integration ; trade policy ; aid ; international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008908173
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334861
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Magic and witchcraft : implications for democratization and poverty-alleviating aid in Africa
Kohnert, Dirk - 1996
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/10011334889
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Crisis Region Western Africa : the cradle of African migration to Europe
Kohnert, Dirk - 2007 - Rev.
In the last decades the number of refugees from conflict regions in Africa increased dramatically. West Africa is the … cradle of migration from Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe, were most African migrants with overseas destinations live. The … contributed to Africa's growing economic misery, due to the damaging effects of European selfish external trade policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335181
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346333
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Magic and witchcraft : implications for democratization and poverty-alleviating aid in Africa
Kohnert, Dirk - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 24 (1996) 8, pp. 1347-1355
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