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IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adac037

Abel Gwaindepi

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IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2022-12-16 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adac040

Abdul-Gafar Oshodi

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IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2022-12-16 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adac039

D. Money

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Financing governance beyond the state: Informal revenue generation in south-central Somalia 国家之外的融资治理:索马里中南部的非正式创收

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2022-10-05 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adac030

Vanessa van den Boogaard, Fabrizio Santoro

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Bureaucratic fragmentation by design? the case of payroll management in the Democratic Republic of Congo 官僚主义的蓄意分裂?以刚果民主共和国的工资管理为例

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2022-09-30 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adac032

Stylianos Moshonas, Tom de Herdt, Kristof Titeca, Paulin Balungwe Shamavu

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The logic of authoritarian industrial policy: the case of Angola’s special economic zone 威权产业政策的逻辑:以安哥拉经济特区为例

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2022-09-29 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adac033

Nicolás Lippolis

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IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2022-09-22 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adac029

Diekara Oloruntoba-Oju

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IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2022-09-22 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adac028

T. Lodge

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