Yet again, no significant economic stimulus is expected from this year’s World Cup. Investments in stadiums and infrastructure in Brazil have certainly resulted in high costs for the public sector, but no significantly positive overall economic impact is expected in the course of the next few...

We examine the impact of gender equality on electoral violence in Africa using micro-level data from the sixth round of Afrobarometer surveys. The sample covers 30 countries. We find that gender equality is associated with lower electoral violence. Quantitatively, our estimates show that an...

In an ethnically diverse country, does it matter to the welfare of ordinary citizens which ethnic group is in power? This paper exploits a plausibly exogenous change in the ethnicity of the president of Guinea in 1984 to identify the effect of living under the rule of a national leader of the...

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...

Throughout the year the controversial legislative elections dominated the political landscape. Huge anti-government demonstrations that called in vain for political alternance. The legislative elections of 20 December 2018, boycotted by the major opposition parties, resulted in an easy victory...

Terrorism is viewed as violence perpetrated by individuals within or outside the government that is specifically directed against civilian or government institution as a way of calling attention to perceived, real or imaginary injustices in a clandestine manner. This paper tends to examine the...

French Abstract: Le clan Gnassingbé dirige le pays depuis 1967. La revendication d'alternance politique a constitué le principal litige entre le gouvernement et les challengers du régime Gnassingbé tout au long de la période d'enquête. Les premières élections locales depuis plus de 30...

Conflict is one concept that inevitably finds its way to co-exist amongst human society because every man needs another to get by and in the process of communication and building relationships, conflicts often arise, owing to the fact that as there are different interests, motivations, choices...