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The Transformation of Rural Labour Systems in Colonial and Post-Colonial Northern Nigeria
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Journal of Peasant Studies 13 (1986) 4, pp. 258-271
The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class-formation. A case study of the development of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better...
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Malevolent governance, intra-group conflict and the paradox of the plenty: An experiment
Puzon, Klarizze Anne; Willinger, Marc - In: Games 7 (2016) 1, pp. 1-11
Using a laboratory experiment, we behaviourally study the impact of a sudden increase in the common-pool size on within-group conflict, i.e., the paradox of the plenty. We also consider the potential role of governance in avoiding this paradox. In the first stage, a randomly-chosen leader of the...
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Natural resource abundance and broad-based financial development nexus in ASEAN countries: Accounting for globalization and human capital
Nathaniel, Solomon Prince - In: European Journal of Government and Economics (EJGE) 10 (2021) 1, pp. 30-45
Sustainable resource consumption is important for the development of the financial system. Besides, an advanced financial system eases the transfer of revenues from production activities and export to productive investments. The influence of natural resource (NR) abundance on financial...
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Socialism without liberation: Land Reclamation Projects in Guinea-Bissau
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Sociologia Ruralis 28 (1988) 2/3, pp. 161-175
One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land...
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Chinese and African Migrant Entrepreneur’s Articulation Shaped By African Agency
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Strategic Review for Southern Africa 38 (2016) 2, pp. 156-166
Much has been written on the relationship of China and Africa in the past decade. However, the subject of Chinese … migrant entrepreneurs in Africa and their articulation with African counterparts was little explored up to the early 2010s … entrepreneurs in Africa. This has been underlined unison in the four books under review …
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Unternehmer und Grundherren Nord-Nigerias im Kampf um die politische Macht: Zum sozialen Aufstieg der einheimischen Wirtschaftselite in den nigerianischen Emiraten
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 13 (1978) 3, pp. 269-286
The traditional relationship of patronage and clientship between the landlords and the growing commercial class in Bida and in other Nigerian Emirates - firmly established during the 19th century - left indelible marks which influenced the pattern of social communication between these two...
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The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 24, pp. 1-19
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this … trade on the 'sending' countries in Africa, with attention to their economic, institutional, demographic, and social …
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Vergleichsverbot? Bevölkerungsstatistiken und die Frage der Vergleichbarkeit in den deutschen Kolonien (1885–1914)
Renard, Léa - In: KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und … 73 (2021) Suppl 1, pp. 169-194
Der Beitrag untersucht das Verhältnis von statistischen Klassifikationen und Vergleichen in deutschen Kolonialstatistiken zwischen 1885 und 1914 und geht der Frage nach, welche Bedeutung und welche Ausprägungen dem Vergleich in Bezug auf Raum und Bevölkerung in kolonialen Statistiken zukamen....
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Unkonventionelle Gasressourcen unerwartet groß
Horn, Manfred; Engerer, Hella - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 24, pp. 10-14
Die nachgewiesenen konventionellen Erdgasreserven reichen aus, um die Erdgasproduktion des Jahres 2008 weitere 60 Jahre aufrechterhalten zu können. Die vermuteten Ressourcen sind deutlich größer. Neben den konventionellen können aber auch unkonventionelle Ressourcen (Shale Gas, Gas aus...
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La política fiscal en economías exportadoras de materias primas: Evidencia para Argentina
Lanteri, Luis N. - In: Atlantic Review of Economics 1 (2016)
This paper analyzes the impact of external price shocks on fiscal policy in Argentina during the last two decades. The paper evaluates, through VAR models with long-term restrictions, the effects of the terms of trade, and the output gap, in revenues, expenditures and the primary fiscal deficit,...
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