New publications
New publications by ASCL staff and affiliates, and new books in our series, are frequently highlighted on this website. You may also use this RSS feed to keep informed. All recently added publications can be found in our database.
This new working paper by Marion Eeckhout focuses on the financial means of implementation generated since the Monterrey Conference for attaining the Millennium Development Goals in Sub-Saharan African countries. It explores whether the Monterrey Consensus in 2002 constituted an inclusive action agenda, thus creating an equal chance for all developing countries to benefit from the additional financial resources mobilized.
A new ASC working paper reviews Dutch development policies for the years 1949-2015, with particular attention for private sector development (PSD). Since the beginning, Dutch government has strongly supported policies stimulating private sector and economic development in the Netherlands and in developing countries. PSD took a central role as it was assumed that poverty could only be alleviated when a country’s economy is stimulated. The long history of Dutch development cooperation shows continuity in its approach towards development policy as a way of promoting Dutch businesses and export in developing countries.
One of the last articles that our late colleague Stephen Ellis (1953-2015) completed, has recently been published by African Affairs, the journal of which Stephen was a co-editor 2003-2007. The article, co-authored by Mark Shaw (director of the Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town) and entitled 'Does organized crime exist in Africa?' has been published Open Access to allow as many people as possible to read it.
This new ASC Infosheet focuses on the relations between South Korea and Africa. South Korea’s primary goal in establishing diplomatic relations in the 1980s was its own political recognition. After it was admitted to the United Nations and recognized as a state, the country’s interest in Africa waned. In the mid-2000s South Korea began to take diplomatic relations with Africa seriously again, establishing trade relations, as well as official development assistance.