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Exploring the Links Between International Business and Poverty Reduction: Bouquets and Beans from Kenya

This Oxfam report looks at the influence of UK retailers and consumers on the produce export sector in Kenya.

Shaping Corporate Social Responsibility in Sub-Saharan Africa

This report from the GIZ Center for Cooperation with the Private Sector outlines the strategic role that Corporate Social Responsbility can play in Africa's cumulative development.

Beyond Patronage: Ruling Party Cohesion and Authoritarian Stability

Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way explore the patronage dynamics in African politic and argue that institutionalized party patronage is an ineffective source of elite cohesion

Foresight Africa: Top Priorities for the Continent in 2013

In this report from the Brookings Africa Growth Initiative, subject matter experts state their top priorities for the African continent in the upcoming year.

Growth, Aid and Policies In Countries Recovering from War

In this paper from the OECD, Anke Hoeffler shows that post-war economies can experience a peace dividend involving higher than average growth rates, and that aid can increase this dividend.

Effectiveness Review: Kenya Drought Response 2011/12

This report presents the findings of an effectiveness review carried out on Oxfam's response to the drought crisis in Kenya.

Does Africa Need a Rotten Kin Theorum?: Experimental Evidence from Village Economies

This paper measures the economic impacts of social pressures to share income with kin and neighbors in rural Kenyan villages, with implications that can shed light on investment decisions throughout Africa.
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The Politics of Oil and a Proposed Pipeline for South Sudan

USIP’s Jon Temin, director of the Sudan program, and Raymond Gilpin, director for Sustainable Economies, take questions about events now unfolding in South Sudan after Juba recently announced a controversial plan to build an oil pipeline through Kenya.

The Feasibility of Financing Sectoral Development Targets

This paper used budget documents from five sub-Saharan African countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Uganda) to analyse to examine actual expenditure in six key sectors central to social and economic development: social protection, health, education, water and sanitation, agriculture and infrastructure.

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