The paper examines the struggle for decolonization in West Africa through the critical lense of the cinema industrial complex. One of the pioneers of African cinema and also a leading anti-colonial cultural activist Paulin Soumanou Vieyra insisted that film should be regarded as a crucial...

Movie production incentives (MPI) are a popular economic development strategy employed by US states. Film subsidies are intended to encourage external investment into an untapped industry that spills over onto complementary industries to generate economic growth through a multiplier. Despite...

Kenya instituted a blanket ban on films containing homosexual content through the Kenya Film Classification Board Classification Guidelines of 2012. The guidelines informed the decision to ban the film Rafiki, on April 2018 which was upheld by the High Court on 29 April 2020. This paper argues...

"This book aims to be an indispensable resource for scholars, filmmakers, industry professionals, and cinephiles alike. By offering a nuanced understanding of the multifaceted nature of Asian cinema's global journey, the objective of this book is to illuminate the past, present, and future of...

The new growth literature, using both endogenous growth and neoclassical models, has generated strong claims for the effect of national policies on economic growth. Empirical work on policies and growth has tended to confirm these claims. This paper casts doubt on this claim for strong effects...

This chapter begins with the dimensions of the poverty problem in developing countries, and then deals with conceptual and measurement issues. It next discusses the nature, characteristics and correlates of rural and urban poverty. It looks into the issue of gender and poverty, then turns to the...

In most poor countries, large majorities of the population live in rural areas and earn their livelihoods primarily from agriculture. Many rural people in the developing world are poor, and conversely, most of the world's poor people inhabit rural areas. Agriculture also accounts for a...