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We will argue in this paper that there are a number of forces impacting upon the longstanding ACP-EU relationship that are altering the nature of the relationship in a fundamental way. The new agreement is in a reality both a product of and an impetus for this change. In order to make it...
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This paper argues that developments in Europe have been the most important variable in monetary integration in West Africa. It shows how monetary integration in West Africa has historically been influenced by two colonial powers: Britain and France and the state of the relationship between these...
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We argue that the partition of ethnic groups following the Scramble for Africa does not itself matter for development … a ect development. Furthermore, the analysis of data from the Afrobarometer shows that the persistence of informal … partitioned group a ects development …
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lives, hindering development. This article presents the Framework for Enabling Empowerment (FrEE), a model that emphasizes … sustainable human development. FrEE is theoretically based in Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach. Explaining the synergy between … the field of human development.</p> …
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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Development, social justice and the limits of public policy -- Why has …, private enterprise and development -- Democracy and development : diagnosing poor governance -- An agenda for Pakistan …
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Since the early 1950s East Asia (China, Taiwan and South Korea) and South-East Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam) have, despite war and other challenges, managed to transform the lives of their people, whereas South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) has lagged...
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Management scholars have long stressed the importance of evolutionary processsesfor inter-firm cooperation but have mostly missed the promising opportunityto incorporate ideas from evolutionary theories into the analysis of collaborativearrangements. In this paper, we first present three rules...
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This paper is a follow-up on two earlier debates I was part of. One debate is documentedin a special issue of The Journal of Economic Methodology, edited by Matthias Klaes andcalled Symposium: Ontological Issues in Evolutionary Economics (2004) The other oneis reported in a special issue of The...
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Amartya Sen has advanced a number of distinct arguments against utilitarianism and‘utility’-based views more generally. One of these invokes various ways in whichunderdogs can ‘adapt’ and learn to live with their situations. Sen’s argument is related toJon Elster’s discussion of...
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In the last two decades there has been a noticeable increase in published research inevolutionary economics. The idea that formal modelling is a sine qua non condition forestablishing a rigours and coherence scientific frame, has led to an over concern withformalization issues among evolutionary...
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