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Borderline disorder : (de facto) historical ethnic borders and contemporary conflict in Africa

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020

We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations across artificial regions within an ethnicity's...

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Borderline disorder: (de facto) historical ethnic borders and contemporary conflict in Africa

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020

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(De facto) historical ethnic borders and land tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023

We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...

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(De facto) historical ethnic borders and land tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023

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It worked in China, so why not in Africa? : the political economy challenge of special economic zones

Farole, Thomas; Moberg, Lotta - 2014

African countries have sought to replicate the success of East Asia by implementing special economic zones. Despite decades of international experience, there remains no blueprint for successful special economic zone policies, and the majority of special economic zones fall well below...

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Constitutional acquisition and regulation of property, investment treaties and expropriation in Africa

Dagbanja, Dominic Npoanlari - In: The journal of world investment & trade : law, … 24 (2023) 4/5, pp. 601-631

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The Sinister Turn : the Decolonized African State in ICSID Expropriation Arbitration

Jones, Anthony - 2022

land expropriation to reverse said practices on those same terms is assigned the designation of erga omnes obligation … sources for the sinister turn in international investment law in African state expropriation disputes. First, international … substantive rejection of expropriation as part of a national purpose towards self-determination is replaced by expropriation as …

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Foreign direct investment in the African food and agriculture sector : trends, determinants and impacts

Husmann, Christine; Kubik, Zaneta - 2019

In this paper, we seek to answer three research questions: (1) What is the pattern of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the African food and agriculture sector in the last 15 years? (2) What are the drivers of FDI in the African food and agriculture sector? (3) What is the evidence on the...

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Bundling governance : finance versus institutions in private investment promotion

Asongu, Simplice A.; Batuo, Enowbi; Tchamyou, Vanessa S. - 2015

Purpose - The study extends the debate on finance versus institutions in the promotion of investment documented by Acemoglu and Johnson (2005), Ali (2013) and Asongu (2014). We assess the effects of various components of governance on private investment, notably: political, economic and...

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