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Governance And Security In Africa: Beyond The State: Non-State Actors and Security in Nigeria: a Case Of Yen Kato Da Gora in Kaduna Urban Area (2024)
Thesis
Yakubu, K. N. Governance And Security In Africa: Beyond The State: Non-State Actors and Security in Nigeria: a Case Of Yen Kato Da Gora in Kaduna Urban Area. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Studies on security and governance are widespread across the global south and often focus on how power is distributed and transferred from states to nonstate actors. However, they rarely examine actual governance practises or the more specific logic... Read More about Governance And Security In Africa: Beyond The State: Non-State Actors and Security in Nigeria: a Case Of Yen Kato Da Gora in Kaduna Urban Area.

Coffee makers: how politics, economics, and evidence shaped coffee policy in Ethiopia, 1950-2018 (2024)
Thesis
Mas Aparisi, A. P. Coffee makers: how politics, economics, and evidence shaped coffee policy in Ethiopia, 1950-2018. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

There is a pervasive assumption that there is very limited room for evidence-informed policymaking in most African countries, because of the clientelistic nature of their regime. The thesis tests this assumption by looking at the longue durée history... Read More about Coffee makers: how politics, economics, and evidence shaped coffee policy in Ethiopia, 1950-2018.

Rural Labour Regimes in North Kordofan: Work, Family, and Categorical Violence in Sudan (2024)
Thesis
Kato, H. Rural Labour Regimes in North Kordofan: Work, Family, and Categorical Violence in Sudan. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis, grounded in primary research conducted in North Kordofan, Sudan, examines how Sudan’s rural labour regimes perpetuate and regenerate violence through what it introduces as ‘categorical violence’. This framework explores how classificatio... Read More about Rural Labour Regimes in North Kordofan: Work, Family, and Categorical Violence in Sudan.

Taxation and State-Building in Afghanistan: A Political Economy Perspective (2001-2021) (2023)
Thesis
Isar, S. Taxation and State-Building in Afghanistan: A Political Economy Perspective (2001-2021). (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This research focuses on the fiscal dimension of state-building in Afghanistan. It examines the relationship between state-building and taxation with a particular focus on the Karzai (2001–2014) and Ghani (2014–2019) administrations, whilst also plac... Read More about Taxation and State-Building in Afghanistan: A Political Economy Perspective (2001-2021).

Labour Retention end Workforce Development in Ethiopia's Apparel and Textile Industry: The Case of Hawassa Industrial Park (2023)
Thesis
Gebrechristos Gebreegziabher, N. Labour Retention end Workforce Development in Ethiopia's Apparel and Textile Industry: The Case of Hawassa Industrial Park. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This research examines the dynamics and challenges of labour retention and, more broadly, building an industrial workforce in the Ethiopian apparel and textile industry in the 2010s/early 2020s through the case of Hawassa Industrial Park (HIP), Afric... Read More about Labour Retention end Workforce Development in Ethiopia's Apparel and Textile Industry: The Case of Hawassa Industrial Park.

The statecraft of large transport projects: Bus Rapid Transit in Johannesburg (2023)
Thesis
Harber, J. The statecraft of large transport projects: Bus Rapid Transit in Johannesburg. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

In 2006, the nascent City of Johannesburg undertook the most ambitious infrastructure project in South African local government history. The Rea Vaya Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) system was to be not just a new way to move people around the city, but a... Read More about The statecraft of large transport projects: Bus Rapid Transit in Johannesburg.

Technical Change, the Shifting ‘Terrain of the Industrial’, and Digital Industrial Policy (2020)
Book Chapter
Andreoni, A. (2020). Technical Change, the Shifting ‘Terrain of the Industrial’, and Digital Industrial Policy. In A. Oqubay, C. Cramer, H.-J. Chang, & R. Kozul-Wright (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Policy (369-393). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198862420.013.15

Technical change is a major driver of structural transformation and industrial mutations within and across sectors of the economy. We show how, by deploying different concepts of sector—commodity/product, production/technology, or location-based taxo... Read More about Technical Change, the Shifting ‘Terrain of the Industrial’, and Digital Industrial Policy.

Building an Industrial Workforce in Ethiopia (2019)
Book Chapter
Oya, C. (2019). Building an Industrial Workforce in Ethiopia. In F. Cheru, C. Cramer, & A. Oqubay (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy (668-686). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198814986.013.33

This chapter provides an overview of the factors and dynamics involved in the creation and formation of an industrial workforce in an agrarian-based economy. The main argument is that the process of building an industrial working class is uneven, pro... Read More about Building an Industrial Workforce in Ethiopia.

The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy (2019)
Book
Cheru, F., Cramer, C., & Oqubay, A. (Eds.). (2019). The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198814986.001.0001

This volume is the first ever economics handbook on a single African country focused on the theme of structural transformation. It is intended to serve as a major reference book on the Ethiopian economy for university students, researchers, and polic... Read More about The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy.

Economic Policy and Food Security in Ethiopia (2019)
Book Chapter
Johnston, D., & Walls, H. (2019). Economic Policy and Food Security in Ethiopia. In F. Cheru, C. Cramer, & A. Oqubay (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy (383-398). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198814986.013.20

Ethiopia has an integrated approach to addressing nutrition. However, greater clarity is needed on the wider impact of policy on food and nutrition. We focus on the interrelationship between economic policy and nutrition policy (defined as including... Read More about Economic Policy and Food Security in Ethiopia.

Livelihoods and Mobility in the Border Regions of Ethiopia (2019)
Book Chapter
Hammond, L. (2019). Livelihoods and Mobility in the Border Regions of Ethiopia. In F. Cheru, C. Cramer, & A. Oqubay (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy (269-287). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198814986.013.14

Ethiopia’s borderlands are key sites of population mobility and migration. Not only do these areas host most of the 800,000 refugees who have entered Ethiopia from neighbouring countries, they also are home to populations whose movements are heavily... Read More about Livelihoods and Mobility in the Border Regions of Ethiopia.