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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
14 December 2018
How can we make sure that economic growth and development investments start benefitting the poor and those who are now excluded? Simply investing will not do the trick: the assumed trickle-down effect does not take place. Meanwhile, evidence has showed that too much inequality can be bad for societies. The World Bank and IMF explicitly advice policymakers to consider the distributive effects of their economic policies. Time to confront inequality, Marleen Dekker writes in the ASCL Africanist Blog.
14 December 2018
The ASCL has invited four distinguished scholars to present their research at the ASCL in 2019. The invited scholars are: Karim Sadr (University of Witwatersrand) on the newly discovered Tswana city in South Africa; Ayodeji Olukoju (University of Lagos) on UAC - Government relations in British West Africa, 1929-1941; Hussein Solomon (University of the Free State), on the Islamist militancy in the Sahel ; and James Ferguson (Stanford University) on the notion of sharing as a principle of distribution of social protection payments. You are very welcome!
10 December 2018
Due to personal circumstances Prof. Hussein Solomon will not be able to come to Leiden to give his seminar on the Sahel. Therefore we have to cancel this ASCL Seminar. The Africa Journalists Meeting that was to precede it will be postponed to 1 May and will precede the seminar South African Elections Approach, by Barry Gilder. We apologize for any inconvenience and will try to reach all those who have registered for the 11 April Seminar and the Journalist Meeting.
10 December 2018
The ASCL is delighted that James Ferguson, Professor of Anthropology and Director of African Studies at Stanford University, will give a lecture in Leiden. In a 2015 book, Ferguson analysed the notion of sharing as a principle of distribution of social protection payments or “cash transfers”. As current schemes of distribution are limited by principles of nation-state membership, he concluded that it may be possible to detect new logics of social obligation that work according to a principle of “presence”. This seminar will elaborate that idea.
07 December 2018
In the 2018 Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture ‘What is prosperity for Africa?’, Prof. Henrietta Moore, Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity, questioned current ways of thinking about economic growth, prosperity and development. ‘How does economic growth translate into sustainable prosperity? Economic growth needs new academic modelling.’ The full text and a video registration will be published soon, but take a look at Prof. Moore's presentation and the pictures!
03 December 2018
On the occasion of the 2018 Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture by Professor Henrietta Moore on 6 December, the ASCL Library has created a web dossier 'Prosperity in Africa'. In recent decades, the realization that economic growth does not necessarily lead to better lives for all has become increasingly widespread. This web dossier showcases resources that challenge traditional economic models of growth, and that seek alternative ways of defining, measuring, and achieving prosperity. Read the web dossier.
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