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Property rights in diverse places: lessons from Dar es Salaam
Last year, while wandering around a slum in Dar es Salaam with a colleague, I happened upon a local landowner who was visibly displeased with how his plot had been demarcated in a recent large-scale land survey. A few … Continue reading
Posted in Institutions and Growth
Tagged Development, Household decision-making, Social Networks
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The 2012 CSAE Conference
The 2012 CSAE Conference begins tomorrow at St. Catherine’s College, here in Oxford. The conference is probably the largest annual gathering of economists working on Africa. There will be an impressive array of speakers at the conference, including Stefan Dercon, … Continue reading
Posted in Institutions and Growth, Jobs, Finance and Skills, News and Updates, Policies to Protect the Poor, Uncategorized
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The price of crossing a border
Crossing a national border in East Africa can be a ponderous, aggravating affair. I experienced this firsthand a few years ago while attempting to temporarily bring a car into Tanzania from Malawi. The process took several hours and involved a never-ending amount of … Continue reading
Posted in Institutions and Growth, Policies to Protect the Poor
Tagged Markets
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Babatunde Fashola and the return of public goods
Babatunde Fashola, the governor of the state of Lagos, recently came to speak at the Rhode’s House in Oxford for the Oxford Research Network on Governance (you can watch or listen to that talk at the Democracy in Africa blog). … Continue reading
Posted in Institutions and Growth
Tagged Nigeria, Public Goods, Taxation
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Introducing the CSAE Blog
Welcome to the first post on the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) blog. This is our first foray into the blogosphere, and while my job with this preliminary post should be to entice you to keep an … Continue reading
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