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Building knowledge about migration governance and policy in the Global South is a priority for research and policy. The studies in this special section offer both new empirical insights and new frameworks for analysis, with key policy implications, that can enrich our discussion of these topics...
Development assistance to fragile states and conflict-affected areas can be a core component of peacebuilding, providing support for the restoration of government functions, delivery of basic services, the rule of law and economic revitalization. Despite a wealth of research, however, significant...
Book Chapter
– Xenophobia in post-Apartheid South Africa
In May 2008, South Africa became the theatre of widespread violent attacks against undesirable ‘outsiders’. Over 60 were killed, hundreds wounded, and tens of thousands displaced. This analysis aims at identifying the characteristics of the victims in an attempt to portray the ‘alien’ using...
Entrepreneurs are often adversely affected by violent conflict such as civil war. At the same time though entrepreneurs may contribute to or even benefit from violent conflict and other ‘destructive’ and ‘unproductive’ activities that limit economic development. Whatever the direction of causality...
Book Chapter
From the book:
Democratic Trajectories in Africa
Book Chapter
From the book:
Democratic Trajectories in Africa
Book Chapter
– Understanding Economic Development and Institutional Change
From the book:
Economies in Transition
Book Chapter
– The Dismal Record So Far and the Search for New Analytical Frameworks to Sustain the Bias towards Hope
From the book:
Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century
Book Chapter
– Understanding the Political Logic of Violence-Reducing Policy Innovation in Three Colombian Cities
From the book:
Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century
Fragile states have very mixed characteristics. Some are experiencing violent conflict, some are ‘post-conflict’, some have avoided large-scale violence–so far. Many are resource poor, but some are resource rich. Many are landlocked, but certainly not all. What they do have in common is that aid...
Book Chapter
From the book:
Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
Book Chapter
From the book:
Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
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