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Tigers or Tiger Prawns?: The African Growth “Tragedy” and “Renaissance” in Perspective (2014)
Book Chapter
Cramer, C., & Chang, H.-J. (2015). Tigers or Tiger Prawns?: The African Growth “Tragedy” and “Renaissance” in Perspective. In C. Monga, & J. Y. Lin (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics: Volume 1: Context and Concepts. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199687114.013.45

This chapter examines Africa’s “renaissance” following a “growth tragedy,” or “chronic growth failure,” between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s. It puts the African growth experiences of the last 50 years into perspective by analyzing these so-called... Read More about Tigers or Tiger Prawns?: The African Growth “Tragedy” and “Renaissance” in Perspective.

How to do (and how not to do) fieldwork on Fair Trade and rural poverty (2014)
Journal Article
Cramer, C., Johnston, D., Mueller, B., Oya, C., & Sender, J. (2014). How to do (and how not to do) fieldwork on Fair Trade and rural poverty. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 35(1), 170-185. https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2014.873022

The Fair Trade, Employment and Poverty Reduction (FTEPR) project investigated poverty dynamics in rural Ethiopia and Uganda. When designing fieldwork to capture poor people often missing from standard surveys, several methodological challenges were i... Read More about How to do (and how not to do) fieldwork on Fair Trade and rural poverty.