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New Nationalism and Development in Africa: Review Article
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 44 (2009) 1, pp. 111-123
About fifty years after the independence of most former colonies on the African continent, books on African nationalism again rank high on the agenda of the international academic discussion. A selection of three recent publications demonstrates the advances made in scholarly analysis in the...
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Agricultural imports, agriculture productivity and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Mwangi, Esther N.; Chen, Fuzhong; Njoroge, Daniel M. - In: Journal of African Trade 7 (2020) 1/2, pp. 15-28
This study investigates the causal links among agricultural imports, agriculture productivity, and economic growth in 40 sub-Saharan African countries over the period 1990-2015. Granger causality tests are applied to infer direction of causality, and the generalized two-stage least squares...
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Export diversification effects of aid for trade in sub-Saharan Africa
Masunda, Stein - In: Journal of African Trade 7 (2020) 1/2, pp. 29-36
This paper uses panel data of 42 sub-Saharan Africa countries from 2005 to 2015 to examine the effect of aid for trade (AfT) on export diversification. The average Hirschman-Herfindahl index measure of 0.77 indicates that the export basket of sub-Saharan African countries is very narrow. This is...
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From small business promotion to creating an entrepreneurial society
Audretsch, David B. - In: CESifo Forum 08 (2007) 2, pp. 3-6
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From seekers to squatters: The rise of knowledge entrepreneurship
Cooke, Philip; Porter, Julie - In: CESifo Forum 08 (2007) 2, pp. 21-28
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Familie, Unternehmer und Kapitalismus: an Beispielen aus der frühen deutschen Industrialisierung
Kocka, Jürgen - In: Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 24 (1979) 3, pp. 99-135
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Umkämpfte Globalisierung: Amerikanische und europäische Reaktionen auf Chinas Aufstieg im Hochtechnologiebereich
Schmalz, Stefan; Gräf, Helena; Köncke, Philipp; … - In: Berliner Journal für Soziologie 32 (2022) 3, pp. 427-454
indicator-driven, meritocratic system. The expansion of hybrid Chinese party-state capitalism is therefore leading to a new …
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The Media Industry's Structural Transformation in Capitalism and the Role of the State: Media Economics in the Age of Digital Communication
Knoche, Manfred - In: tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 14 (2016) 1, pp. 18-47
the state provides for media capital. This contribution shows that capital and capitalism are the main structural …
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Free economy! On 3628800 alternatives of and to capitalism
Roth, Steffen - In: Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics 27 (2015) 2, pp. 107-128
to capitalism and alternative forms of capitalism is not in the on-going problematization of the dominance of the … to draw in order to be at all able to observe capitalism. Answering this question, we show that capitalism is a form that … capitalism and alternative capitalisms calls for a stronger focus on the non-economic function systems. Finally, we present an …
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The long-term effects of development aid - Empirical studies in rural West Africa.
Kohnert, Dirk; Elwert, Georg; Bierschenk, Thomas - In: Economics, Biannual Journal of the Institute for … 47 (1993) 1, pp. 83-111
This article is based on field studies in rural West Africa. It concentrates on the socio-structural effects of development aid in the long run, in contrast to numerous available evaluation reports on the short-run effects of development projects. The study reveals that superficial...
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