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This thesis investigates the capacity of the newly introduced Chinese Special Economic Zones in Africa (CSEZAs) to deliver ‘cooperation' and ‘mutual development' to China and Africa. Referring to existing scholarship on other forms of liberal spatial economics, it addresses the …

In certain polities, the nature of the state can best be captured as a contract whereby the central administration delegates taxation in the countryside to provincial elites. More specifically, due to technological necessities, the center relies on delegates to exact taxes, and …

The main feature of the Nigeria economy is the oil, which accounts for 90 percent of export receipts and 70 percent of government revenue. But in spite of its position as the nation's breadbasket, the Niger Delta remains underdeveloped. This underdevelopment manifests itself in …