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attention (Cioni et al. 2021). This second revolution put the spotlight on Africa. In this essay I explore why Africa has become …-term African development. I survey and classify the main historical explanations for Africa's poverty and develop three … interrelated arguments. First, that the portrayal of Africa as an exceptionally poor region offers an attractive explanandum for …
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We investigate the well-being of urban workers in Angola under colonialism. Using a newly compiled dataset derived from …
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Conflict and political instability have considerably weakened Guinea-Bissau’s productive infrastructure during the past … for a book that provides a collection of papers on conflict, livelihoods, and poverty in Guinea-Bissau based on both a … findings in the areas of conflict, growth and poverty, institutions and social networks, the characteristics of the poor and …
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a profound impact not only on the EU but also on Africa. The British government's vision of a reinvigorated 'Global … Britain' relies heavily on a reinforced cooperation with Commonwealth Sub-Saharan Africa. Already the temporary closure of … GB and the EU. However, African commodity exporters such as Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya will likely bear the brunt …
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and regions have grown over the past 50 years, much of Africa has stagnated. African leaders have become adept at … externalizing blame, holding others responsible for Africa's failings. Yet African leaders — not a lack of capital, access to world … countries must liberalize their economies to grow. Africa must embrace globalization and trade with the rest of the world …
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Poverty in Africa is primarily rural concentrated, about 75% of the poor population live in rural areas and draws their … extreme poverty, with the Eastern and Southern Africa having the world’s highest concentrations of poor people. The renewed … in Sub-Saharan Africa is increasing faster than the population. The study examined the effect of agricultural …
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traditional model of delivering education, which further deprives the poor in Africa. The traditional model of education denoted …
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level, rose significantly over time and were, in major parts of British Africa, considerably higher than real wages in Asian …
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Why, after 30 years of aid, were so many African countries no better off in the 1980s than they had been at independence? Why, indeed, were so many of them slipping back and earlier economic achievements being undermined?Concentrating on Sudan, the Poverty of Nations examined what had gone wrong...
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