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Foreign aid and decentralization: Policies for autonomy and programming for responsiveness

Dickovick, J. Tyler - 2013

Donor support for decentralization comes in two main categories: recommendations at the policy level and project activities at the programming level. At the policy level, donors promote decentralization by recommending greater autonomy for subnational actors. That is, they advocate for reforms...

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Colonialism and development in Africa

Heldring, Leander; Robinson, James A. - 2013

In this paper we evaluate the impact of colonialism on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the world context …, colonialism had very heterogeneous effects, operating through many mechanisms, sometimes encouraging development sometimes … interesting. We emphasize that to draw conclusions it is necessary not just to know what actually happened to development during …

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Income Inequality in Colonial Africa: Building Social Tables for Pre-Independence Central African Republic, Ivory Coast and Senegal

Alfani, Guido; Tadei, Federico - 2017

Today, income inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa is exceptionally high. In this paper, we study whether present-day inequality can be traced back to the colonial period by reconstructing income distributions in a sample of representative colonies. To do so, we use data from colonial records to...

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Measuring Extractive Institutions: Colonial Trade and Price Gaps in French Africa

Tadei, Federico - 2017

A common explanation for current African underdevelopment is the extractive character of institutions established during the colonial period. Yet, since colonial extraction is hard to quantify, the magnitude of this phenomenon is still unclear. In this paper, I address this gap in the literature...

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The White Man’s Burden: On the Effect of African Resistance to European Domination

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice; Cinyabuguma, … - 2016

Are there contemporary development effects of African resistance to European domination? This question is the primary … development and discuss possible channels of such causality. This relationship is robust to alternative model and to controlling …

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Africa's slave trade and its long-term impact on militarism and institution

Easaw, Joshy Z.; Sun, Yang - 2024

Recent studies show that significant historical events, particularly the slave trade, had an impact on contemporary African economies. The transmission mechanisms, however, are not well established. The purpose of the present paper is to consider two such transmission mechanisms, notably...

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Privatization in Africa: What has happened? What is to be done?

Nellis, John - 2005

Sub-Saharan African states urgently need expanded and more dynamic private sectors, more efficient and effective infrastructure/utility provision, and increased investment from both domestic and foreign sources. Privatization is one way to address these problems. But African states have...

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The Evolution of Enterprise Reform in Africa: From State-owned Enterprises to Private Participation in Infrastructure - and Back?

Nellis, John - 2005

Many African state-owned enterprises (SOEs), particularly those in infrastructure, have a long history of poor performance. From the outset, SOE financial and economic performance generally failed to meet the expectations of their creators and funders. By the late 1970s, the situation was...

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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)

African states up to October 2014. The EPAs are meant not just to liberalize trade but also to promote economic development in …

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L’Angleterre, le Brexit et l’Afrique

Kohnert, Dirk - 2018

High-flying illusions on the part of the proponents and grim predictions on the part of the sceptics have characterised the controversy around Brexit. The article assesses five key issues at stake for post-Brexit relationships between Britain, the EU, and Africa: market access, foreign direct...

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