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The African Growth and Opportunity Act : The Perils of Pursuing African Development Through U.S. Trade Law

McCormick, Ryan - 2010

policy toward sub-Saharan Africa. Has AGOA fulfilled its promise to serve as a catalyst for African economic development? The … Textiles and Clothing and China's accession to the WTO, the article considers AGOA's effect on Africa's nascent textile and …

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Land Concentration, Institutional Control and African Agency: Growth and stagnation of European tobacco farming in Shire Highlands, c 1900 – 1940

Green, Erik - Ekonomisk-historiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2012

The role of factor endowments and institutions as drivers of socio-economic change and development is a central theme in economic and agrarian history. The common approach is to identify either factor endowments or institutions as triggers of change. Meanwhile, institutions and factor endowments...

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Moving Forward in African Economic History. Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources

Jerven, Morten; Austin, Gareth; Green, Erik; Uche, Chibuike - Ekonomisk-historiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2012

The field of African economic history is in resurgence. This paper reviews recent and on-going research contributions and notes strengths in their wide methodological, conceptual and topical variety. In these strengths there is also a challenge: different methodological approaches may also...

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Transparency in Resource Governance: The Pitfalls and Potential of “New Oil” in Sub-Saharan Africa

Alstine, James Van - In: Global Environmental Politics 14 (2014) 1, pp. 20-39

An international agenda has evolved over the past decade to establish hard and soft rules to govern the impacts of the extractive industries. The international community and some resource-rich states have increasingly embraced norms such as transparency in resource governance. This paper...

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When women hold local office : women's representation and political engagement amid conflict and climate shocks across Africa

Kosec, Katrina; Kyle, Jordan; Takeshima, Hiroyuki - 2023

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Borderline Disorder: (De facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020

We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …

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