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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

solutions to the problems of crisis resolution and prevention, the fight against corruption and rent-seeking elites, in order to … Prioritäten richtig setzen: das heißt, nachhaltige Lösungen zur Krisenbewältigung und Prävention suchen, Korruption und … mettre en œuvre des solutions durables aux problèmes de la résolution des crises, la lutte contre la corruption et la …

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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...

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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...

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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

The analysis of African occult belief systems provides a unique example for demonstrating that seemingly outdated and exotic African modes of thought, such as the belief in magic and witchcraft, are modern and have significant impact on social, economic and political structures. Official...

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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...

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Context Matters – Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa

Basedau, Matthias - 2005

for a number of Africa's illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different …

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China's Impact on Africa - the Role of Trade, FDI and Aid

Busse, Matthias; Erdogan, Ceren; Mühlen, Henning - 2014

We investigate the impact of Chinese activities in sub-Saharan African countries with respect to the growth performance of economies in that region. Using a Solow-type growth model and panel data for the period 1991 to 2011, we find that African economies that export natural resources have...

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Pro-Poor Trade Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa

Nicita, Alessandro; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Porto, Guido - 2012

household. To this end, we start with a simple agricultural household production model and propose an extension to include …

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Agricultural imports, agriculture productivity and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Mwangi, Esther N.; Chen, Fuzhong; Njoroge, Daniel M. - In: Journal of African Trade 7 (2020) 1/2, pp. 15-28

This study investigates the causal links among agricultural imports, agriculture productivity, and economic growth in 40 sub-Saharan African countries over the period 1990-2015. Granger causality tests are applied to infer direction of causality, and the generalized two-stage least squares...

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