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Colonialism and its legacies, as reflected in water, incorporating a view from Malawi (2018)

Mathur, Chandana; Mulwafu, Wapulumuka

Colonialism and its legacies, as reflected in water, incorporating a view from Malawi (2018)

Mathur, Chandana; Mulwafu, Wapulumuka

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Continued, accelerating water inequalities and conflicts in the postcolonial world cannot be properly grasped without a thorough understanding of colonialism and its legacies. At the same time, water as a resource provides an immensely useful lens for understanding the intricacies and the dynamics of the colonial and postcolonial eras, in general terms, and in the particular historical instance of Malawi examined here. This essay draws on a range of literatures—social theory, political ecology, history, anthropology, sociology, geography, and so on—to demonstrate that struggles over water and other natural resources in the postcolonial world are situated within wider global structures and relationships of power. Starting with a discussion of theoretical approaches to water, the essay goes on to examine the processes of state formation in Sub‐Saharan Africa, and explore the intersectionality of the contemporary lived experience of class, gender, race, and ethnicity in this region. It...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/10905/

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Corruption and anxiety in Sub-Saharan Africa (2015)

Gillanders, Robert

Corruption and anxiety in Sub-Saharan Africa (2015)

Gillanders, Robert

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This paper examines the relationship between individuals’ experience of corruption and their anxiety using microeconomic data from the Afrobarometer surveys. The results show a statistically significant and economically meaningful relationship in probit models using both an experience of corruption index and a simple dummy variable. Having to pay a bribe to obtain documents and permits, to avoid problems with the police or to access medical care are the scenarios in which this relationship is strongest. Some evidence is presented that an individual needs to experience such corruption more than ‘once or twice’ for these relationships to become evident.

http://doras.dcu.ie/22329/

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Corruption and support for economic reform in sub-Saharan Africa (2019)

Breen, Michael; Gillanders, Robert; Mahmalat, Mounir

Corruption and support for economic reform in sub-Saharan Africa (2019)

Breen, Michael; Gillanders, Robert; Mahmalat, Mounir

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We explore the relationship between experiences of corruption and support for economic reform in sub-Saharan Africa. We find that the relationship varies across three rounds of the Afrobarometer survey. Examining each round separately, we find that in the first round the local intensity of bribery is correlated with support for reform. In the second round an individual’s own experience of bribery matters, while in the third round neither variable is important. Estimating our model on pooled data suggests that an individual’s own experience of corruption is associated with less support for reform on average. However, we present evidence that this association is only present in the second round. These findings point to a changing relationship which may reflect rapid development in the region, including economic growth, inward investment, and the diffusion of technology. Our key contribution is to demonstrate that policy recommendations based on an analysis of one round of data or pool...

http://doras.dcu.ie/23319/

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Exogenous political institutions? Constitutional choice in post-independence Francophone sub-Saharan Africa (2012)

Elgie, Robert

Exogenous political institutions? Constitutional choice in post-independence Francophone sub-Saharan Africa (2012)

Elgie, Robert

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The study of the effects of institutions suffers from a potential endogeneity problem. This article proposes a strategy for addressing this problem by estimating the motivations for institutional choice directly. It identifies the motivations behind the wording of post-independence constitutions in Francophone sub-Saharan Africa. We find that constitutional wording in these countries has been motivated by the strength of ties with France. However, contrary to standard narratives, domestic political preferences have also been influential. By estimating the motivations for institutional choice directly, we are better placed to draw conclusions about the independent effect of institutions in this region.

http://doras.dcu.ie/20742/

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Public sector corruption and trust in the private sector (2017)

Gillanders, Robert; Neselevska, Olga

Public sector corruption and trust in the private sector (2017)

Gillanders, Robert; Neselevska, Olga

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In this paper we use data from the Afrobarometer surveys to demonstrate that there is an undesirable spill-over from petty corruption in the public sector to trust in private sector institutions. Our results show that experiencing bribery in the course of one’s interactions with the public sector lowers one’s trust in big private corporations, small businesses, and local traders. This finding holds even when we allow for perceptions of political corruption to enter the specification. We do not find any significant association between a measure of interpersonal trust and bribery experience which suggests that our findings with regards to market institutions are not driven by corruption lowering trust in general. Having to pay a bribe for household services, which is perhaps the setting most like a private sector transaction, is the corrupt interaction most strongly associated with the decline in private sector trust. We find some evidence that the spill-over is larger in democracies ...

http://doras.dcu.ie/22326/

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The effects of foreign aid in Sub-Saharan Africa (2016)

Gillanders, Robert

The effects of foreign aid in Sub-Saharan Africa (2016)

Gillanders, Robert

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This paper contributes to the aid effectiveness debate by applying a vector autoregression model to a panel of Sub-Saharan African countries. This method avoids the need for instrumental variables and allows one to analyse the effect of foreign aid on human development and on economic development simultaneously. The full sample results indicate a small increase in economic growth following a fairly substantial aid shock. The size of the effect puts the result somewhere between the arguments of aid optimists and those of aid pessimists. Human development, for which I use the growth rate of life expectancy as a proxy, responds positively to aid shocks in democracies.

http://doras.dcu.ie/22336/