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THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
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Agricultural Productivity and Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

We analyze the evolution of Sub-Saharan Africa’s agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) over the past 45 years, looking for evidence of recent changes in growth patterns using an improved nonparametric Malmquist index.
Nin Pratt, Alejandro, Yu, Bingxin
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VOID URBANISM: Unbuilt New Cities and State Formation in the Democratic Republic of Congo

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the planning process behind Kitoko City in the Democratic Republic of Congo—a new city project officially launched in 2019 but never implemented—this article examines the political, social, and spatial effects generated by urban initiatives that remain at the stage of intention. It investigates how such unbuilt projects
Patrick Belinga Ondoua
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Agricultural Productivity Growth in Africa: Is Efficiency Catching-up or Lagging Behind? [PDF]

Recent empirical studies on agricultural productivity growth in African countries have produced mixed results; some find that uptake of new technology (technical progress) is the main source of total factor productivity growth while others point to ...
Mugera, Amin W., Ojede, Andrew
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EMIGRE CITY‐MAKING: The Micropolitics of Diasporic Real Estate Investment and Urban Growth in Pakistan

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Contemporary cities in the global South are being reshaped through the intersecting logics of burgeoning real estate sectors and diasporic investment. This article examines the case of Pakistan to explore how emigration trajectories and remittance practices contribute to the transformation of urban landscapes in countries of origin through ...
Fatima Tassadiq
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Understanding gender differences in agricultural productivity in Uganda and Nigeria [PDF]

We investigate gender differences in agricultural productivity using data collected in 2005 from Nigeria and in 2003 from Uganda. Results indicate that lower productivity is persistent from female-owned plots and female-headed households, accounting for ...
Quisumbing, Agnes, Behrman, Julia, Peterman, Amber, Nkonya, Ephraim   +3 more
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Reflections on Adoption of New Agricultural Practices

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on adoption of new practices, technologies and systems in agriculture has generated thousands of publications over the past 70 years, covering uptake of agricultural practices spanning more than 100 years. This paper contains selected key lessons from the results of this enormous research effort, drawn from numerous reviews of the ...
David J. Pannell
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The Continuity and Rupture of the ‘New Washington Consensus’: From Biden to Trump 2.0

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ‘New Washington Consensus’ (NWC) represents a major intellectual shift in the US approach to global economic governance. However, the NWC has never been subject to systematic academic critique. With Trump's return to the White House ushering in a new era of US trade policy, the NWC is widely considered to be politically irrelevant in the ...
Ming Du
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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Agricultural Productivity, Drought, and Economic Growth in Sahel [PDF]

A standardized precipitation index is used in a regression analysis to quantify the impact of climate change on agricultural productivity in Sahel. I first estimate a Malmquist productivity index and its efficiency and technical change components.
Boubacar, Inoussa
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