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Test-score data show that both low-income and racial-minority children score lower, on average, on states’ elementary-school accountability tests compared with higher-income children or white children. While different levels of scholastic achievement depend on a host of influences, such...
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Western preconceptions regarding African sexuality distorted early research on the social context of AIDS in Africa and … hypersexualized pan-African culture as the main reason for the high prevalence of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. Africans were portrayed … poor people, a narrowly behavioural explanation dominated the AIDS-in-Africa discourse for over a decade and still …
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The political economy literature highlights the redistribution of resources to political support groups – often along regional or ethnic lines – as a dominant feature of political systems. Against this assumption, Kasara (2007) documents a puzzling result of discriminatory rent extraction by...
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allocation of Chinese development finance projects to Africa is geographically matched with survey data for 50,520 respondents … from 11 African countries. The identification strategy consists in comparing sites where a Chinese project was under …
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The political economy literature highlights the redistribution of resources to political support groups - often along regional or ethnic lines - as a dominant feature of political systems. Against this assumption, Kasara (2007) documents a puzzling result of discriminatory rent extraction by...
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