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Does Project-Level Foreign Aid Increase Access To Improved Water Sources? Evidence From Household Panel Data In Uganda, Lynda Joyce Pickbourn, Raymond Caraher, Léonce Ndikumana
Does Project-Level Foreign Aid Increase Access To Improved Water Sources? Evidence From Household Panel Data In Uganda, Lynda Joyce Pickbourn, Raymond Caraher, Léonce Ndikumana
PERI Working Papers
This paper combines geocoded subnational data on the location of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) aid projects in Uganda with nationally representative household-level panel survey data to evaluate the impact of WASH aid on access to water and on the burden of water collection. Specifically, it examines whether proximity to aid-funded WASH projects improves household access to improved water sources and reduces the time burden of water collection. Our results suggest that while aid-funded WASH projects increase household access to improved sources of water, households may also see the time burden of water collection increase, as they may need to …
Representing Africa In The ‘Coming To America’ Films, Samuel K. Bonsu, Delphine Godefroit-Winkel
Representing Africa In The ‘Coming To America’ Films, Samuel K. Bonsu, Delphine Godefroit-Winkel
Markets, Globalization & Development Review
Through an interpretive analysis of the two Eddie Murphy films "Coming to America" (CTA) and "Coming 2 America", spaced nearly 30 years apart, this review essay underscores the persistence of Orientalist Othering of Africa. The negative images of Africa that are so engrained in people have been facilitated in significant part by a strategic, but perhaps unconscious, effort to socialize audiences into an identity construction process that casts Africans as inferior. Despite attempts at favorable depictions of Africa, these processes continue to play out.
When We See Us: Coming 2 America And The Intricacies Of Black Representation And Diasporic Conversation, Terri Bowles
When We See Us: Coming 2 America And The Intricacies Of Black Representation And Diasporic Conversation, Terri Bowles
Markets, Globalization & Development Review
This is a review essay of the film Coming 2 America (2021) by Craig Brewer, a follow-up to the 1988 comedy classic Coming to America , which stars Eddie Murphy as a newly crowned African king confronted with shifting family dynamics and evolving challenges to his royal authority. The review examines the cultural space occupying the 30 years that separate the first film and its sequel, and interrogates the structures of popular film and comedy that situate representational discourses of gender and diasporic Black representation.
Race, Representation, Misrepresentation, Caricatured Consumption Tropes; And Serious Matters Of Inequity And Precarity, Nikhilesh Dholakia, Deniz Atik
Race, Representation, Misrepresentation, Caricatured Consumption Tropes; And Serious Matters Of Inequity And Precarity, Nikhilesh Dholakia, Deniz Atik
Markets, Globalization & Development Review
No abstract provided.
Disease, Development, And Disorder: Examining The Effect Of Health On Subnational Development And Conflict In Sub-Saharan Africa, Dlorah C. Jenkins
Disease, Development, And Disorder: Examining The Effect Of Health On Subnational Development And Conflict In Sub-Saharan Africa, Dlorah C. Jenkins
Doctor of International Conflict Management Dissertations
Progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been uneven across and within countries - particularly in Africa, least developed countries, and low-income countries. The COVID-19 pandemic has threatened to reverse much of the progress made towards achieving the SDGs, especially SDG 3, which aims to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”.
The tendency for disease, underdevelopment, and conflict to occur concomitantly suggests potential causal mechanisms linking them. This study attempts to address two pieces of the puzzle: the causal effect of disease on underdevelopment and the impact of development on conflict risk. Focusing …
Carolina African Runner Peanuts: Connecting African And Alabamian Agricultural History, Abby West, Gary Padgett, Matthew D. Campbell
Carolina African Runner Peanuts: Connecting African And Alabamian Agricultural History, Abby West, Gary Padgett, Matthew D. Campbell
The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies
Social Studies has the potential to impact STEAM education in unrealized ways. It can have this impact by being meaningful, integrative, value-based, challenging, and active. This article examines teaching about Carolina African Runner peanuts and the history of Alabama’s agriculture. The introduction of peanuts to Alabama and the enslavement of African people cannot be removed from a lesson such as this – nor should it. It is through value-based education that social studies contributes the most to STEM and STEAM lessons. This article is significant in that it demonstrates a history lesson that is active rather than passive. This article …
Export Promotion As A Development Strategy: Evidence From Selected Southeast Asian Countries And Lessons For Ghana, Ohenewaa B. Newman
Export Promotion As A Development Strategy: Evidence From Selected Southeast Asian Countries And Lessons For Ghana, Ohenewaa B. Newman
Journal for the Advancement of Developing Economies
Developing countries have adopted various development strategies such as import substitution industrialization (ISI) and export promotion strategies. For Latin-American and developing countries, some level of economic growth was experienced using ISI after the Second World War. However, these countries could not attain the needed economic growth, technological advancement or guarantee food security with the adoption of ISI. It led to unequal income distribution, less internal competition, and distortions of their economy, among others. The rise of export promotion strategies in the 1970s was evidenced by an impressive economic growth and a decline in poverty in jurisdictions like Taiwan, Tanzania and …
Common Currency And Intra-Regional Trade In The Central African Monetary Community (Cemac):, Divine Ngenyeh Kangami, Oluyele Akinkugbe
Common Currency And Intra-Regional Trade In The Central African Monetary Community (Cemac):, Divine Ngenyeh Kangami, Oluyele Akinkugbe
Journal of African Trade
No abstract provided.
Effect Of China’S Zero-Tariff Treatment Under Forum On China-Africa Cooperation (Focac) On Export Diversification In Beneficiary Countries In Africa:, Zhina Sun, Ehizuelen Michael Mitchell Omoruyi
Effect Of China’S Zero-Tariff Treatment Under Forum On China-Africa Cooperation (Focac) On Export Diversification In Beneficiary Countries In Africa:, Zhina Sun, Ehizuelen Michael Mitchell Omoruyi
Journal of African Trade
No abstract provided.
Trade Costs And Demand-Enhancing Effects Of Agrifood Standards: Consequences For Sub-Saharan Africa:, Aristide Djimgou Tchakounte, Dela-Dem Doe Fiankor
Trade Costs And Demand-Enhancing Effects Of Agrifood Standards: Consequences For Sub-Saharan Africa:, Aristide Djimgou Tchakounte, Dela-Dem Doe Fiankor
Journal of African Trade
No abstract provided.
Estimating The Effect Of Afcfta On Intra-African Trade Using Augmented Ge-Ppml:, Hippolyte Fofack, Richman Dzene, Omar A. Mohsen Hussein
Estimating The Effect Of Afcfta On Intra-African Trade Using Augmented Ge-Ppml:, Hippolyte Fofack, Richman Dzene, Omar A. Mohsen Hussein
Journal of African Trade
No abstract provided.
Afreximbank In The Era Of The Afcfta:, Benedict Oramah
Afreximbank In The Era Of The Afcfta:, Benedict Oramah
Journal of African Trade
No abstract provided.
Reaping The Afcfta Potential Through Well-Functioning Rules Of Origin:, Komi Tsowou, Junior Davis
Reaping The Afcfta Potential Through Well-Functioning Rules Of Origin:, Komi Tsowou, Junior Davis
Journal of African Trade
No abstract provided.
Trade Integration In West Africa: Does The Quality Of Institutions Matter?:, Vigninou Gammadigbe
Trade Integration In West Africa: Does The Quality Of Institutions Matter?:, Vigninou Gammadigbe
Journal of African Trade
No abstract provided.
Regional Developmentalism In West Africa: The Case For Commodity-Based Industrialization Through Regional Cooperation In The Cocoa–Chocolate Sector:, Jonathan Bashi Rudahindwa, Sophie Van Huellen
Regional Developmentalism In West Africa: The Case For Commodity-Based Industrialization Through Regional Cooperation In The Cocoa–Chocolate Sector:, Jonathan Bashi Rudahindwa, Sophie Van Huellen
Journal of African Trade
No abstract provided.
The Afcfta And African Trade—An Introduction To The Special Issue:, Hippolyte Fofack, Andrew Mold
The Afcfta And African Trade—An Introduction To The Special Issue:, Hippolyte Fofack, Andrew Mold
Journal of African Trade
No abstract provided.
Ecowas And Afcfta: Potential Short-Run Impact Of A Draft Ecowas Tariff Offer:, Peter Lunenborg, Thomas Roberts
Ecowas And Afcfta: Potential Short-Run Impact Of A Draft Ecowas Tariff Offer:, Peter Lunenborg, Thomas Roberts
Journal of African Trade
No abstract provided.
Proving Hegel Wrong: Learning The Right Lessons From European Integration For The African Continental Free Trade Area:, Andrew Mold
Journal of African Trade
No abstract provided.
Regional Integration And Trade: The Case Of The Common Market For Eastern And Southern Africa (Comesa) Free Trade Area:, Grace Gondwe
Regional Integration And Trade: The Case Of The Common Market For Eastern And Southern Africa (Comesa) Free Trade Area:, Grace Gondwe
Journal of African Trade
No abstract provided.
Is It Export- Or Import-Led Growth? The Case Of Kenya:, Peter Simiyu Wamalwa, Maureen Were
Is It Export- Or Import-Led Growth? The Case Of Kenya:, Peter Simiyu Wamalwa, Maureen Were
Journal of African Trade
No abstract provided.
Prospects And Challenges For Supply Chain Trade Under The Africa Continental Free Trade Area☆:, Jaime De Melo, Anna Twum
Prospects And Challenges For Supply Chain Trade Under The Africa Continental Free Trade Area☆:, Jaime De Melo, Anna Twum
Journal of African Trade
No abstract provided.
The African Continental Free Trade Area: A Historical Moment For Development In Africa:, Vera Songwe, Jamie Alexander Macleod, Stephen Karingi
The African Continental Free Trade Area: A Historical Moment For Development In Africa:, Vera Songwe, Jamie Alexander Macleod, Stephen Karingi
Journal of African Trade
No abstract provided.
Policy And Economic Variables Influencing Adoption Of Sustainable Electrification In Rural Sub-Saharan Africa, Payne William Morgan
Policy And Economic Variables Influencing Adoption Of Sustainable Electrification In Rural Sub-Saharan Africa, Payne William Morgan
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Limited access to electricity remains a primary constraint to economic growth and the improvement of livelihoods throughout sub-Saharan Africa. In rural areas, electricity access is especially sparse. The reasons for the scarcity of electricity supply in the region are well documented, with low population density, limited household incomes, and poor regulatory institutions compounding to often make the investment of expanding electricity access result in poor or risky economic returns. However, the declining cost of solar PV and mandates for clean energy development throughout the region have created new channels for bringing electricity supply in potentially more cost-effective ways.Despite these macro …