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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.

Researching Violence in Africa: Ethical and Methodological Challenges (2011)
Book
Cramer, C., Hammond, L., & Pottier, J. (Eds.). (2011). Researching Violence in Africa: Ethical and Methodological Challenges. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004203129.i-184

Researching violence and conflict can be challenging for a variety of reasons, including security risks to researchers and informants, restricted or lack of access to informants and field sites, and poor reliability of official data. Traditional meth... Read More about Researching Violence in Africa: Ethical and Methodological Challenges.

Lifting the Blinkers: A New View of Power, Diversity and Poverty in Mozambican Rural Labour Markets (2008)
Journal Article
Cramer, C., Oya, C., & Sender, J. (2008). Lifting the Blinkers: A New View of Power, Diversity and Poverty in Mozambican Rural Labour Markets. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 46(3), 361-392. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X08003340

This paper presents some results from the largest rural labour market survey yet conducted in Mozambique. Evidence from three provinces shows that labour markets have a significant impact on the lives of a large number of poor people, and that employ... Read More about Lifting the Blinkers: A New View of Power, Diversity and Poverty in Mozambican Rural Labour Markets.

Economía Política del Desarrollo en África (2007)
Book
Oya, C., Santamaría, A., Sender, J., Cramer, C., Lawrence, P., Lahiff, E. P., Weeks, J., & Bidaurratzaga, E. (2007). C. Oya, & A. Santamaría (Eds.). Economía Política del Desarrollo en África. Ediciones Akal