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More on State Building and the International System
This is a guest post in response to a previous blog post by friend of the blog Matthew Kustenbauder. Your post highlights the contradictions between today’s human rights regime (which is based on...
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Nominate the best blogs of 2012
A View From the Cave blogger Tom Murphy is holding the annual Aid Best Blogger Awards (ABBA). I don’t consider my blog to be an “aid blog” per se but I think I fit into the general category that Tom...
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Do African leaders have a voice?
That is the question asked by Africa Is A Country: These days, well-behaved African heads of state are rewarded by Barack Obama with the chance to meet with him in groups of four and have their picture...
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Authoritarian Origins of Democratic Party Systems in Africa
That is the title of a new book by Rachel Riedl of Northwestern University on party system development in Africa following re-democratization in the early 1990s. Riedl writes: To explain these...
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Rwanda, 20 Years On
Caution: This is not an apology for President Kagame and his autocratic tendencies that have resulted in carnage and death in the DRC, Rwanda and elsewhere. At a conference last year a US State...
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A total of 19 incumbent African leaders have now lost elections
And as my adviser likes to remind me, the trend was started by Somalia in 1967. Source: Mail & Guardian More on this here. H/T Onyango-Obbo.Filed under: Somalia Tagged: african politics, David...
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What makes some countries urbanize without industrializing?
…. Kuwait, Gabon, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Algeria, Angola and Nigeria are as urbanized as Uruguay, Taiwan, South Korea, Mexico, Malaysia, South Africa and China respectively, and yet the former countries...
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Africa’s looming debt crises
The 1980s are calling. According to Bloomberg: Zambia’s kwacha fell the most on record after Moody’s Investors Service cut the credit rating of Africa’s second-biggest copper producer, a move the...
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What does it mean to be “tough on crime”?
This is from Alex Tabarrok over at MR: Our focus on prisons over police may be crazy but it is consistent with what I called Gary Becker’s Greatest Mistake, the idea that an optimal punishment system...
View ArticleWhat is the “Rwanda Model” of development?
Here’s Nic Cheeseman’s summary: Instead of sitting back and waiting for foreign investors and the “market” to inspire growth, the new administration intervened directly in a process of state directed...
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