Canadian Journal of Development Studies-Revue Canadienne D Etudes Du Developpement最新文献

{"title":"Does economic complexity enhance governance quality in Africa?","authors":"Ronald Djeunankan, Brice Kamguia, Sosson Tadadjeu","doi":"10.1080/02255189.2023.2268801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2023.2268801","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe importance of governance in promoting economic growth and its crucial role in the achievement of other Sustainable Development Goals have been largely discussed in the literature. Given the importance of governance and the desire of all nations to ameliorate the level of governance, a growing literature has engaged in understanding its determinants. This study attempts to contribute to this literature by examining, for the first time, the effect of economic complexity on governance using data from 32 African countries over the period from 2002 to 2019. We elaborate four governance indicators based on a principal component analysis. Results provide strong evidence of a positive relationship, suggesting that moving to higher levels of economic complexity leads to better governance performance. We identify human capital, foreign direct investment, and income inequality as some transmission channels through which economic complexity promotes governance. Based on these results, several policy implications are discussed.RÉSUMÉL’importance de la gouvernance dans le développement de la croissance économique, ainsi que son rôle crucial dans la réalisation d’autres Objectifs de Développement Durable, ont été longuement débattus dans le milieu académique. Ce rôle important qui lui est donné, ainsi que la volonté de toutes les nations d’améliorer leur niveau de gouvernance, ont mené à un nombre croissant d’études ayant pour sujet la compréhension des déterminants de la gouvernance. Dans cet article, nous contribuons à cette littérature en analysant, pour la première fois, les effets de la complexité économique sur la gouvernance dans 32 pays africains, en nous basant sur des données collectées entre 2002 et 2019. Au fil d’une analyse en composantes principales, nous dégageons quatre indicateurs de gouvernance. Nos résultats indiquent l’existence d’une relation positive, suggérant ainsi que l’adoption de niveaux de complexité économique plus élevés mène à une meilleure performance de gouvernance. Nous identifions le capital humain, les investissements directs étrangers, et l’inégalité de revenus comme certains des canaux de transmission par le biais desquels la complexité économique stimule la gouvernance. En nous basant sur ces résultats, nous considérons les implications politiques de cette relation entre complexité économique et gouvernance.KEYWORDS: Economic complexitygovernanceAfricasustainable development Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1 For instance, according to a recent report on the Global Terrorism Index, Nigeria’s Boko Haram represents the deadliest terrorist organization with 6,644 deaths. Some other notable terrorists’ movements on the continent include: Ansar Al-Shariya in Tunisia; Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb; AlShabab in Kenya and Somalia; Boko Haram in Nigeria and central Africa (Asongu and Biekpe Citation2018; Asongu and Nwachukwu Citation2017).2 http://atlas.media.mit.e","PeriodicalId":46832,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Development Studies-Revue Canadienne D Etudes Du Developpement","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136261749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"White Saviorism in international development: theories, practices and lived experiences","authors":"Rebecca Tiessen","doi":"10.1080/02255189.2023.2253967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2023.2253967","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46832,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Development Studies-Revue Canadienne D Etudes Du Developpement","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135437178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Teach for Arabia: American universities, liberalism, and transnational Qatar","authors":"Yunnan Ye","doi":"10.1080/02255189.2023.2253961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2023.2253961","url":null,"abstract":"\"Teach for Arabia: American universities, liberalism, and transnational Qatar.\" Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 Additional informationFundingThis book review is funded by the China Scholarship Council.","PeriodicalId":46832,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Development Studies-Revue Canadienne D Etudes Du Developpement","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135437176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does the Canadian government support women's rights to land in sub-Saharan Africa?","authors":"Chris Huggins, Ogochukwu Udenigwe","doi":"10.1080/02255189.2023.2249199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2023.2249199","url":null,"abstract":"Canada's Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP) commits Canada to promote the land rights of women, and to provide at least 50 per cent of bilateral funding to sub-Saharan African countries by 2021. This article seeks to answer the question: What is the Government of Canada (GAC) currently doing to strengthen women's land rights in Africa? We identified GAC-funded projects which include components to support women's rights to land in Angola, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, and Tanzania. However, not all of these have yet implemented land rights-related activities.","PeriodicalId":46832,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Development Studies-Revue Canadienne D Etudes Du Developpement","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135879258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“They are my people, add them!” The politicisation of poverty reduction programmes in the Global South: Ghana’s Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty cash transfer programme in focus","authors":"Abdul‐Rahim Mohammed","doi":"10.1080/02255189.2023.2249579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2023.2249579","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46832,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Development Studies-Revue Canadienne D Etudes Du Developpement","volume":"189 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75132302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What money couldn’t buy: social protection for migrants in India’s lockdown","authors":"K. Singhal, A. Sarin, Advaita Rajendra","doi":"10.1080/02255189.2023.2245534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2023.2245534","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46832,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Development Studies-Revue Canadienne D Etudes Du Developpement","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74922643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Aiding stakeholder capitalism: donors and the contentious landscape of transparency reform in Ghana","authors":"N. Oppong","doi":"10.1080/02255189.2023.2220957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2023.2220957","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46832,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Development Studies-Revue Canadienne D Etudes Du Developpement","volume":"191 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72800393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unequal development and labour in Brazil","authors":"J. Maurer","doi":"10.1080/02255189.2023.2220958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2023.2220958","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46832,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Development Studies-Revue Canadienne D Etudes Du Developpement","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79849754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In the shadow of violence: the Madagascan nexus","authors":"M. Razafindrakoto, F. Roubaud, Jean-Michel Wachsberger","doi":"10.1080/02255189.2023.2212896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2023.2212896","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46832,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Development Studies-Revue Canadienne D Etudes Du Developpement","volume":"206 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83536395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wealth inequality: the Indian case","authors":"Ishan Anand, Anjana Thampi, Vamsi Vakulabharanam","doi":"10.1080/02255189.2023.2212898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2023.2212898","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThree decades have passed since India implemented market-oriented economic reforms. While levels of and trends in consumption and income inequality have been studied extensively, wealth inequality has not received the same level of attention. In this paper, we use nationally representative household surveys to show that the period of economic reforms has witnessed a sharp rise in interpersonal wealth inequality. A decomposition of this rising wealth inequality shows that wealth is increasingly concentrated in urban areas, among a few privileged social groups, and in the top decile of the Indian population.RÉSUMÉTrente ans ont passé depuis que l’Inde a implémenté ses réformes économiques axées sur le marché. Tandis que les niveaux et tendances des inégalités de consommation et de revenu ont été étudiés en profondeur, les inégalités de richesse n’ont pas encore reçu le même degré d’attention. Dans cet article, nous nous penchons sur des enquêtes auprès des ménages, représentatives à l'échelon national, afin de démontrer que la période des réformes économiques a témoigné d’une forte hausse des inégalités de richesse interpersonnelles. Une analyse de cette hausse montre que la richesse est de plus en plus concentrée dans les zones urbaines, dans certains groupes sociaux privilégiés, et dans le décile supérieur de la population indienne.KEYWORDS: WealthinequalitycasteIndiarural–urban gap AcknowledgementsWe thank the two anonymous reviewers and the editor for useful comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript. We also thank the participants of the Wealth Inequality Workshops conducted in 2019 and 2022 by the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, for their feedback. Any remaining errors are our own.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 As per the latest Periodic Labour Force Survey, 55.6 per cent of India’s workforce was self-employed in 2020–2021.2 ‘Caste’ in the Indian context could mean the ‘Varna’ or ‘Jati’ system. The Varna system categorised people into Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras, in descending order of ‘purity’. Outside the Varna system, or the ‘Avarnas’, were the Dalits and the Adivasis. The Jati system categorised people into thousands of groups and sub-groups, and these Jatis differ in their ritual ranking and occupation. For a detailed discussion, see Zacharias and Vakulabharanam (Citation2011).3 A Dematerialised (or in short, Demat) account is necessary to trade in equity and debt in the Indian financial markets.Additional informationNotes on contributorsIshan AnandIshan Anand is an assistant professor of economics at Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. His research focuses on inequality, stratification, caste, agriculture, and labour.Anjana ThampiAnjana Thampi is an assistant professor of economics at Jindal Global Law School, O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana","PeriodicalId":46832,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Development Studies-Revue Canadienne D Etudes Du Developpement","volume":"175 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135641384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}