This paper uses econometric methods and case-study evidence to examine the political economy of complex humanitarian emregencies, multidimensional crises characterized by warfare, state violence, disease, hunger, and displacement. We emphasize that economic variables often become salient through...

The study offers a number of conclusions as to the relevance for southern Africa of the various regionalization models. Both theory and experience show that the trade integration model is badly equipped to be the basis for regionalization in Africa, as the production structure of most African...

This paper analyses the rationale of interventions in foreign exchange markets in Sub-Saharan Africa and reviews exchange rate theory and balance of payments management and its application to African countries. It analyses the liberalization of foreign exchange markets and the impact of these...

In this paper we propose to measure the inequality of educational achievements by constructing a Gini index on educational attainments. We then use the proposed measure to analyse the relationship between inequality in incomes and educational achievements.

The recent history of Zaire presents a unique opportunity to understand and explain humanitarian emergencies. This monograph follows an inductive appraoch in analysing the tragectory of state-building in Zaire as a significant explanatory variable of humanitarian emergencies.

The emergence of a select group of developing countries as destinations for private portfolio investments in the 1990s (and the subsequent peso crisis in Mexico in 1994) has rekindled the old issues about the responsabilities and capacities public authorities have with regard to managing the...

This study examines the empirical relationship among inequality, poverty and economic growth in India. Using data on consumption from the 13th to the 53rd Rounds of the National Sample Survey, the author computes, for both rural and urban sectors, the Gini coefficient and three popular measures...