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Emerging Legal Geographies of Cultural Rights
This project explores the intensification of interest in culture as the basis for new forms of development and the assertion of new rights.
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Good Governance and Poverty Relief
The project explores the hypothesis that the eradication of inequalities (especially the alleviation of poverty) in developing regions and especially in Africa is directly dependent on the practice of good governance – not only by governments, but also in the corporate and NGO sectors of society.
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Chinese Investment in Africa
Mazwi, Freedom, George T. Mudimu and Kirk Helliker. (Eds.). 2024. Chinese Investment in Africa. Springer International Publishing. https://d...
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A New Path to Welfare: Rights and Constitutionalism in the Global South
The rise of neoliberalism caused a ‘lost decade’ of development in large parts of the global South.
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Law and Social Policy in the Global South
Chen, Albert H. Y. and Ulrike Davy. 2023. Law and Social Policy in the Global South. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003242826
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Disaster Management in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policies, Institutions and Processes
Balgah, Roland A. and Jude N. Kimengsi. (Eds.). 2022. Disaster Management in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policies, Institutions and Processes (First...
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Development from below? Islands of effectiveness or Enclaves in South Africa today.
What influence does living or working in a given area, an area delimited –even if informally - from its surroundings, have on those inside and those outside this distinct area?
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Mobilités, circulations et frontières: Migrations, mobilités et développement en Afrique Tome 1
Eyebiyi, Elieth P and Angèle Flora Mendy. 2019. Mobilités, circulations et frontières: Migrations, mobilités et développement en Afrique Tom...
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Africa’s gene revolution: genetically modified crops and the future of African agriculture
Matthew Schnurr. 2019. Africa’s gene revolution: genetically modified crops and the future of African agriculture. McGill-Queen’s University...
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Meeting Long Term Challenges
Professor Ian Goldin is the Director of the Oxford Martin School and Professor of Globalisation and Development at the University of Oxford.
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Understanding Southern welfare – social policies in Brazil, India, China and South Africa
A mid-term research programme focusing on the ideational foundations of social policies beyond traditional Northern welfare will be fleshed out.
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Analysing sub-Saharan African states through a limited access lens
During the past decade, an extraordinary disconnect regarding the futures of states in sub-Saharan Africa has emerged: ‘Aspiring Africa, the world’s fastest growing continent’ (in the words of The Economist on its title page), on the one hand, and, in the words of an economist, ‘informalised and subsistence Africa, with swathes of survivalist pockets of existence, remains the overriding economic reality’ in these states, on the other.