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Ethnicity is not public service destiny : the political logic of service distribution in South Africa
Porten, John; Rhee, Inbok; Gibson, Clark C. - 2021
provision from the start. Rather than assuming that ethnicity underlies service distribution in Africa, we argue that … remains highly uneven across the country. Most studies of service provision in Africa assume that politicians will target … councillors and their mayor helps to account for the variation in service provision across South Africa's municipalities. We test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509570
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Ethnicity is not public service destiny : the political logic of service distribution in South Africa
Porten, John; Rhee, Inbok; Gibson, Clark C. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 159 (2022), pp. 1-18
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013554815
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Migration, Displacement and Refugees : An overview of The Role of Some Regional African Organizations
Alaowei Al-Bashir Lekan, Da-Cocodia - 2022
overview of migration, displacement and refugees shows that: Africa is known for its long history of migration within and … biases, being other causes of migration, displacement and refugees in Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013298829
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Implementing the African Continental Free Trade Area : A Simple, Scalable, and Fast Computational Approach for Algorithmic Governance
Atkinson, Craig - 2022
-centred algorithmic governance. To bolster the resilience of Africa’s markets to social, ecological, and epidemiological disruption, such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240841
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Measuring Party System Change: A Systems Perspective
Nwokora, Zim; Pelizzo, Riccardo - 2017
fluidity, which measures the extent of such stability. Applying the index to Africa, we show there is significant cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784906
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Unofficial sovereign wealth funds and duration in power in Africa
Nawo, Larissa; Avom, Désiré; McNabb, Kyle; Nembot, Luc - 2019
This paper argues that in weak states, leaders whose hold on power is secured by the public fortune have turned to the use of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), especially unofficial SWFs, to cement their hold on power. Unofficial SWFs are private funds created from resource rents with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146544
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A Demographic Study of African Attitudes on Bribery
Hernandez, Teresa - 2014
This paper examines ethical opinion on bribe taking in four African countries – South Africa, Ghana, Ethiopia and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055207
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Unofficial sovereign wealth funds and duration in power in Africa
Nawo, Larissa; Avom, Désiré; McNabb, Kyle; Nembot, Luc - 2019
This paper argues that in weak states, leaders whose hold on power is secured by the public fortune have turned to the use of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), especially unofficial SWFs, to cement their hold on power. Unofficial SWFs are private funds created from resource rents with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098407
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Measuring party system change : a systems perspective
Nwokora, Zim; Pelizzo, Riccardo - 2017
fluidity, which measures the extent of such stability. Applying the index to Africa, we show there is significant cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758400
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Ethno-regional favouritism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ahlerup, Pelle; Isaksson, Ann-Sofie - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014
Abstract: Studies of political favouritism in Africa often treat ethnic and regional favouritism as interchangeable … concepts. The present paper distinguishes between the two and investigates their relative influence in Sub-Saharan Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019125