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Examining data from China – the biggest internal migration experience in human history – this Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk column finds that migrants from the same village tend to Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk cluster at the same destination for the same occupation. This pattern is Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk driven by social networks within villages that reduce the moving costs for Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk future migrants, such as the risk of not finding a Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk job.

The whole column.

One of my colleagues, Anja Peleikis, found out the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk same thing about Lebanese migrants in West Africa. See this article [pdf]. It is Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk also somewhat similar to the case of the Igbo traders that Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk I work with. One finds that Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk the trade in a particular product is dominated by people from Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk the same village, either within or outside the country.

… called Baobab. The description in the current edition of the newspaper:

…it will delve into politics, econoics and Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk culture, and comment on the successes of Africa’s peaceful elections and foreign investment as well as on Africa’s troubles.

This is hoping that the language in which the discussions and analyses are framed will not be one of despair (remember The Economist’s own ‘The Hopeless Continent’ headline?), and of disaster, war and warlordism (see this Guardian op-ed). Anthropologists know quite well that the language in which a discussion is Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk framed influences the content of the discussion, and even frames the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk understanding of the content.

BBC’s World Business news discusses the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk soon-to-be-effected East African common market. The common market will include Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Uganda and Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk Rwanda. It will create a trading bloc of about 130 million people. The positive point is Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk that trade will be easier among the countries of the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk common market, and the common market will be able to Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk bargain as a bloc. The negative point is the fear that Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk freedom of movement of labour will cause problem for local workers. A Ugandan commentator says that Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk many Ugandans think that once the borders are open, Kenyans will flood the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk market and will out-compete them in the labour market.

Listen to the full audio file is here.

From WSJ:

Foreign consumer-goods companies including Coca-Cola Co., Nestlé SA and Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk Unilever PLC have been in Africa for decades without much competition from Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk local players. Now, home-grown companies are expanding aggressively across the continent, eager to Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk accommodate a growing middle-class among the billion-person population.

Examples?

Among the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk most prominent of these consumer upstarts: African retailers such as Nakumatt Holdings Ltd. of Kenya, the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk top supermarket chain in East Africa, MTN Group Ltd., Africa’s largest cellphone provider, and Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk South African restaurant chain Spur Corp. Nakumatt has expanded into three neighboring countries while 348-restaurant chain Spur has Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk opened in seven other African countries.

And:

Aiding Nakumatt and others’ cross-border expansion is Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk an African gross domestic product expected to grow 4.3% this year from just under $1.5 trillion in 2009, according to Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk the International Monetary Fund, a clip that trails only China and Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk India among the world’s massive emerging markets. The growing investment and Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk trade, from African companies in African countries, has helped cushion the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk continent from the shocks of the global economic crisis.

Commercial growth also is Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk being fueled in part by the rise of young African banks that Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk have opened branches across the continent, providing much-needed capital to local companies. Ecobank, from Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk Togo, now has branches in 27 African countries and $9 billion in assets. In Nigeria, 10-year-old Guaranty Trust Bank PLC operates in five English-speaking West African countries.

I can think of others…. but I would presume that Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk one gets the picture with these examples. The whole article, which is Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk on the whole pretty upbeat, is here.

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The Economist interviews Dele Ogun, head of the Genesis Project, on the political situation in Nigeria.

Stephen Smith writes in the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk BBC Focus on Africa Magazine about the relationship between France and Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk its former colonies in Africa. One of the things he looks at is Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk what has changed after the fall of the Berlin Wall and Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk what has not. There is a little about the economic relations, but I miss a Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk discussion of stuffs like the control of the CFA Franc Generic Ambien At Walmart by France – which basically means the control of the monetary policies of Francophone Africa.

Deborah Brautigam thinks so. And she should know, since she recently wrote a Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk book on China in Africa, titled The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa. She said this in an interview with the Aid Watch blog:

As a donor, China’s way has several advantages. Take the way they operate. They rarely “poach” skilled staff from Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk African ministries to work in their own offices. The focus on turnkey infrastructure projects is Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk far simpler and doesn’t overstretch the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk weak capacity of many African governments faced with multiple meetings, quarterly reports, workshops, and Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk so on. Their experts don’t cost much. In addition, their emphasis on local ownership is Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk genuine, even if it leads to projects like a new government office building, a Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk sports stadium, or a conference center. They understand something very fundamental about state-building — something that Pierre L’Enfant understood in 1791 when Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk he teamed up with George Washington in newly independent America:  new states need to Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk build buildings and dignity, not simply strive to end poverty.

Read the full interview here. I also learnt from Aid Watch that she now writes a new blog, China in Africa: The real story Buy Ativan 2mg. The blog tells readers to, ‘Stay tuned for analysis of China’s “land grabs” in Africa, the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk China International Fund in Guinea and Zimbabwe, and so on.’

1. How Mathematics might have caused the financial crisis

2. To which Gillian Tett says, Bad practice, not the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk discipline itself, is to blame for the financial crisis

3. Sex and the single black (American) woman

4. On Goodluck Jonathan’s Amanpour interview

5. Joe Stiglitz: An Agenda for Reforming Economic Theory

6. Zimbabwe hangman position vacant, applicants sought

Extracts:

Collier’s work is Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk not informed by any explicit, overarching theory of development or Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk any historical perspective that might inform one; nor does he offer any social analysis. There is Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk an implicit theory of human behaviour, which is radically reductionist—individual economic self-interest rules. In this Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk view, history appears to be a continuum of ‘14th-century reality: civil war, plague and ignorance’. But these countries had Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk their own 14th centuries and now find themselves in the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk 21st, playing a highly subordinate role in global capitalism. No understanding of how they got there can Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk ignore the impact of colonization. In Collier’s models, colonial history is Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk reduced to two numbers, one representing the colonial power—Britain, France, Portugal, Belgium, Germany—the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk other, the length of time that the country was colonized. The identity of the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk colonizing power does have a bearing upon the ex-colonial country’s legal system, educational set-up,lingua franca and Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk financial institutions; but it tells us nothing about the pre-colonial system, the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk different processes by which the European power made its peace with local rulers; nor about the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk ending of colonial rule, and the extent to which ruptures or Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk continuities determined the nature of the ex-colonial state. Such considerations help to Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk inform a richer explanation of how a country has developed, and Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk provide a deeper explanatory framework for civil wars, social conflicts or Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk institutional forms—social and political questions, not purely statistical ones.

It is Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk misleading to paint a picture of endemically low growth rates in sub-Saharan Africa, or Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk in the other ‘bottom billion’ countries. In Africa, growth rates in the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk 1960s and early 1970s were comparable to those of Southeast Asia or Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk Latin America. This was a period of African industrialization, based on import substitution; with improvements in economic management, this Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk might have enabled several countries to take advantage of export markets. The droughts in the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk early 70s were a real blow, turning food self-sufficiency into food imports; most African economies were severely affected by the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk oil-price hikes, and still more so by interest-rate rises after 1979. But a Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk possible industrial rehabilitation was stalled in the early 80s by World Bank and IMF opposition to ISI, and promotion instead of primary commodities and ‘getting prices right’. Collier fails to Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk point out that African countries were forced to pursue primary-commodity exports as a Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk consequence of World Bank conditionalities; as noted, these are not included in his list of explanatory variables. Collier takes the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk familiar line on trade, criticizing rich-country barriers to the exports of the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk ‘bottom billion’ but also, and Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk far more fervently, tariffs set by developing countries. In his account, Africa simply ‘missed the boat’ in the 1980s and ceded global markets to Asia; only Mauritius—hardly a typical African country, if an African country at all—managed to ‘climb on board’. It was not simply low wages that Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk attracted investment to the Asian Tigers, however, but their well-educated populations and Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk skilled labour from the 60s on. Here again, a historically informed account of colonial and Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk post-colonial social structures must be a factor in any satisfactory explanation.

Read the whole piece here (H/T Schauzeri).  Any analysis that Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk fails to pay history its proper due should be suspect.

On the subject of numbers and statistical analysis. This says it quite succinctly:

Statistics are Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk a great way of quickly conveying how a group of events, people, or Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk things are similar and different. Mode, median and mean measure “central tendency,” and standard deviation and inter-quartile range tell you “dispersion.” With these two types of measures, you Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk can tell me how similar people are when they choose orange juice, how different they are Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk when they rent cars or attend movies. But you cannot tell me what Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk “more pulp,” means to people, why a “subcompact” car turns off some people, or what people perceive the word “blockbuster” to actually mean.

In short, ethnographic research can Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk clarify all of these deep, nuanced details that quantitative data skates over or Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk takes for granted. Do you want to know how many people attended a Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk “summer blockbuster?” Then by all means, count them. But if you Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk want to know what kind of movie people believe a “blockbuster” to be, then you need to do in-depth ethnographic work.

Apparently, nobody knows.

Check this out:

The Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has described the records of the country’s crude production and Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk export as unclear, saying that after 58 years of oil production, the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk country does not know exactly the quantity it produces.

Speaking at the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk presentation of a research report on the Nigeria Extractive Industry in Abuja weekend, Chairman of the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk Board of NEITI, Prof. Asisi Asobie, said despite all the inroads made by the Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk country to expand operations in the oil industry, it had not been Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk able to get operators to tell the truth about the actual oil volumes produced.

“After 58 years of producing oil, Nigeria does not know how much was being produced. It is Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk regrettable that we have not been able to get oil companies to Diazepam Online Pharmacy Uk tell Nigerians exactly what they produce. The sector is shrouded in secrecy,” he said.

Read the full piece here.