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Foreign Aid in Africa Hinders Development
Over the past 60 years, Africa has received over $1 trillion USD in development-related aid, yet more than 50 percent…
Browsing: Sub-Saharan Africa
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African Debt A Decade After Relief: How the New Wave of Investment is Undoing the Debt Relief of 2005
In 2005, the IMF and World Bank decided to forgive low–income countries, the majority of which were in Africa, of…
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Avoiding the Resource Curse: Why Botswana Succeeded Where Others Failed
After its independence from Great Britain in 1966, Botswana seemed to have few prospects for development. Mostly reliant on agriculture,…
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Xenophobia in “The Rainbow Nation”: Economic and Political Failure in South Africa
Since the fall of Apartheid in 1994, South Africa has served as a shining example for the rest of the…
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Death Rattle of the International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court (ICC) appeared to be hitting its stride in the fall of 2016, earning successful convictions for…
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The Vicious Game: Understanding Endemic Conflict in South Sudan
INTRODUCTION Nearly ten years after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement officially ended the bloody Sudanese Civil War, South Sudan is again…
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What “Rhodes Must Fall” Tells Us About Decolonization
A little over a year ago, on March 9, 2015, a student protestor at the University of Cape Town (UCT)…
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The Second Scramble For Africa
As late as the 1870s only 10% of the African Continent was colonized. Less than 30 years later, the “Scramble…
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A Game of Chicken
South Africa’s agriculture industry can breathe a sigh of relief. No, its farming exports will not lose preferential, duty-free access…
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Unconditional Cash Transfers
Conditional cash transfer programs are a common poverty reduction tool used by many governments and nonprofits in their development aid programs.…