Tracking Development
The Tracking Development project compares four countries in Southeast Asia (SEA) with four in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in order to explain why the former region has developed rapidly in the past half century, and the latter has not. In particular, the question is whether the contrast can be explained by specific policy choices.
The project is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
For more information see: www.trackingdevelopment.net
See also: http://differenttakeonafrica.wordpress.com/, blog on politics, aid and development in Africa (Tracking Development is one of the research programmes participating in the blog).
12-14 December 2011: Tracking Development final conference, The Hague
PhD defence, 19 April 2012
Location: Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231, 1012 EZ Amsterdam
10:00 am: A. Helmy Fuady: Elites and Economic Policies in Indonesia and Nigeria, 1966-1998
Read the thesis (under embargo until 19-04-2014).
12:00 am: Un Leang: A Comparative Study of Education and Development in Cambodia and Uganda from their Civil Wars to the Present
Read the thesis.
About this project
Project type:
External project
Period:
2006 to 2012
Project status:
Ongoing
Researchers
Keywords
Subsaharan Africa; Asia; development; research
Funding and cooperation
Funding:
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Cooperation:
Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies [et al.]
Additional information
Research output:
Special issue of Development Policy Review: Tracking Development in South-East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The opening article of this issue, Tracking Development in South-East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa: The Primacy of Policy by Jan Kees van Donge, David Henley and Peter Lewis is free to download at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dpr.2012.30.issue-s1/issuetoc
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