POLITICAL ECONOMY AND HISTORY: MAKING SENSE OF HEALTH FINANCING IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyacinth Eme Ichoku ◽  
William. M. Fonta ◽  
John E. Ataguba
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Health Financing ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Sub Saharan

scholarly journals Out of Time, Out of Place: Primitivism and African Art

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Meredeth Turshen
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
African Art ◽  
Cultural Legacy ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Declining Populations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Cultural Hierarchies

<p>This article debates the proposition that artistic production mirrors humanity’s maturation from primitive superstition to scientific rationality. This effort sits at the intersection of demography, political economy and aesthetics. According to traditional demographic theory, primitive peoples are caught in a poverty trap of high birth rates, a condition inimical to industrialization, well-planned urbanization, universal education, women’s emancipation and cultural production. The analysis focuses on three dynamics: the demographic effects of mass migration on creativity: the trajectories of declining populations and their places in cultural hierarchies; and slavery and colonialism’s reduction to penury of skilled artists in pre-industrial societies. The method interrogates self-reinforcing trends of the canons of demography, political economy and aesthetics and the resulting concurrence on the path of progress, which assumes that art is a reflection of liberal historical advancement. The overarching argument of the article is that by setting the criteria and suppressing alternative accounts of the history of African art, these canons narrow and misrepresent our global cultural legacy. Background: sub-Saharan African art is classified as “primitive” according to the canons of art history, demography and political economy. This label is problematic because it conveys faulty demographic assumptions about sub-Saharan Africa and reflects the ways in which theories of human progress reinforce analyses underlying the designation of primitive. The proposition advanced is that these canons narrow, suppress alternative accounts of the history of African art, and misrepresent our global cultural legacy.</p>

scholarly journals The Political Economy of Industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evaluating the Role of Institutions

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-108
Author(s):  
Lionel Effiom ◽  
Emmanuel Uche
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Distributed Lag ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Quality Of Institutions ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Optimal Resource ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Development Literature

Sub-Saharan Africa has recently witnessed rising growth rates, but the continent is still largely not industrialised. Mainstream empirical diagnosis has identified the paucity of physical and human capital as the main culprit. However, with the increasing inflow of capital into the continent, such arguments have become hackneyed. A possible culprit identified in the evolving development literature is the quality of institutions. How much has the quality of institutions, structured largely by the prevailing political economy of individual states, influenced Africa’s industrial performance? This study deploys descriptive and analytical methodologies to proffer answers to these questions. The estimates obtained from the Pool Mean Group Panel Autoregressive Distributed Lag (PMG-ARDL) as well as the Augmented Mean Group (AMG) panel estimators point strongly to the fact that institutions are bane of industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Specifically, we find evidence that in the long run, regulatory quality, rule of law and control of corruption all impact the manufacturing subsector negatively and significantly. The panacea is not only within the matrix of optimal resource allocation, but must integrate the entire political and sociological process, involving governments at all levels, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and faith-based groups.

scholarly journals China's Roadmap to Global Trade and Market Share Dominance

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 29-39
Author(s):  
Mavhungu Abel Mafukata
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Market Share ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Space Acquisition

This paper re-construct the roadmap adopted by China to dominate global trade and market share space with reference to SSA. Specifically, this paper characterises the nature of China's practice of political economy where the country does business. Literature was reviewed to collect data used in the re-construction of the model. This paper found that indeed China has a clearly set roadmap (figure 1) for its global trade and market share space acquisition and dominance. China's dominance of the economic and market space in SSA has an assortment of intertwined complexities for the region. Sub-Saharan Africa needs to excercise caution on China because signs are there already that China would not be any different from the Western economies who had exploited the region for decades for their own gain, not the region's gain.

Making sense and use of new media in Sub-Saharan Africa

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Nkosi Ndlela ◽  
Thomas Tufte
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Sub Saharan
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