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Whereas Senegal has long been sold as a showcase of democracy in Africa, including peaceful political alternance …Während Senegal lange Zeit als Vorzeigeprojekt der Demokratie in Afrika verkauft wurde, einschließlich eines …
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This study investigates the relationship between foreign aid and conflict incidence at the sub-national level across … Africa using an innovative, high-resolution panel dataset of monthly grid-cell observations. By combining geo …-referenced World Bank aid data with conflict event data from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) project, we construct a …
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, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …
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fragmentation and conflict on international trafficking through internal and international displacements. …
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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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How did Christianity expand in sub-Saharan Africa to become the continent's dominant religion? Using annual panel data …
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developed, starting with existing case studies of current conflicts over industrial mining in sub-Saharan Africa and building on … of engaging in conflict at their disposal, and thus rely on different repertoires of contention when engaging in … bestehenden Fallstudien zu gegenwärtigen Konflikten um den industriellen Bergbau in Subsahara-Afrika sowie aufbauend auf eigene …
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. Robust evidence from the dynamic GMM estimator shows that: (i) remittances heighten income inequality in Africa, (ii) Africa …-à-vis financial access and depth, inefficiencies characterising Africa's financial institution is the main reason remittances … shows that channelling efforts into the development of Africa's financial sector could yield shared income distribution …
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evidence from the dynamic GMM estimator shows that: (i) remittances heighten income inequality in Africa, (ii) Africa …-à-vis financial access and depth, inefficiencies characterising Africa's financial institution is the main reason remittances … shows that channelling efforts into the development of Africa's financial sector could yield shared income distribution …
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Using a panel vector autoregressive model this paper investigates the dynamic and endogeneous contribution of tourism to output based on a sample of 40 African countries for the period 1990 - 2006. Results from the study confirm tourism to be an important ingredient of African development...
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