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reality check
Recently I have been reminded over and over again of the fact that in the sixties South Korea, Ghana, Kenya, the Congo etc had roughly similar per capita GDP (I just started reading economic gangsters...
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remembering lumumba
Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost, has an editorial in the Times in honor of Patrice Lumumba, the firebrand Congolese independence leader who was assassinated 50 years ago. His death, amid the...
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sovereign hypocrisy and the icc: exposing african impunity
UPDATE: Keating at FP reacts to the UN resolution against Gaddafi. In 2000 Stephen Krasner, a renowned academic and member of my department, published a book that outed the “organized hypocrisy” that...
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The other dimension of the (origins of) Congolese Conflict
UPDATE: Stay updated on the run-up to the elections in the DRC here. ************************************************** In reaction to Dodd-Frank many in the blogosphere, including yours truly, have...
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Is this the beginning of the Third Congo War?
Yesterday Goma fell to the M23, a rebel group in eastern DRC with alleged links to both Rwanda and Uganda. The fall of Goma increases the likelihood of an all out war in eastern Congo that might...
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Capital flight continues to plague poor nations
According to the Center for International Policy: “Exactly 10 times the $100bn spent on aid and debt write-offs by rich countries is siphoned out of developing countries, with corporations responsible...
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On external interventions to improve village-level governance and...
This is from an excellent JDE paper by Humphreys, de la Sierra and der Windt: We study a randomized Community Driven Reconstruction (CDR) intervention that provided two years ofexposure to democratic...
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