Publications

The overall trend in increasing volumes of cross-border financial flows is positive. It is also encouraging that the volume of private financiers, whether from commercial or non-commercial origins, is picking up. The trend in Sub-Saharan Africa is not so clear-cut but with...

The Dutch government has been supporting higher education in developing countries through cooperation between Dutch higher education and training institutes and partner organizations in the developing countries since the late 1960s.Various programmes have been implemented but...

The overall challenge of Dutch bilateral sustainable diplomacy in Africa is to manage a complex portfolio of bilateral country relations that can build on the strength of different stakeholders. In addition to this there are also multilateral and regional channels through...

This book is based on iterative multi-sited ethnography at Merrivale farm, Tavaka village, and various sites in South Africa. The author reveals how the dynamics generated by fast-track potentially offer new development opportunities - specifically for women. The findings...

This thesis aims to understand how the process of social change has been negotiated in the area of Mwinilunga, a district in the north-western province of Zambia, between the 1870s and the 1970s. It looks at the process of social change by tackling four aspects in detail,...

Using survey data and event history interviews undertaken in Ethiopia, we investigate which shocks trigger which coping responses and why. Relatively covariate natural and economic shocks trigger reductions in savings and in food consumption, while relatively idiosyncratic...

Comment imaginer la forme de l'Etat dans sa gestion de la cohabitation ethnique sous un angle positif pour l'Afrique aujourd'hui et demain? Telle est la question thématique fondamentale de Pascal Touoyem de Cameroon. La réalité ethnique en...

L'histoire récente de l'Afrique se caractérise par la 'révolution' des technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC), plus spécifiquement de la téléphonie mobile. La présente thèse...

[Résumé]: Cet article revient sur le rôle de la France dans les changements de régime en Afrique à partir d'un cas particulier, le putsch de Seyni Kountché au Niger (1974), qui conduit à la chute du président Hamani...

In 2011, the Government of Ethiopia launched a pilot Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) scheme. This paper uses three rounds of household survey data, collected before and after the introduction of the CBHI pilot, to assess the impact of the scheme on household...

Pastoral and agro-pastoral areas in eastern Africa and elsewhere on the continent have long been regarded as peripheries, especially in economic terms, but also in terms of social and cultural accomplishments. Although biased perceptions of the 'unproductive' uses of...