Dreher, Axel, Fuchs, Andreas, Hodler, Roland, Parks, Bradley, Raschky, Paul and Tierney, Michael (2015) Are African leaders misusing Chinese development finance? The price of country ownership. International Growth Centre Blog (18 Aug 2015). Website.
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Abstract
In a 2012 blog post, MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Harvard’s James Robinson call attention to a “fancy school” built in a small village in Sierra Leone and financed by Chinese development aid. They ask a pointed question: “Why would anyone want to build a wonderful school in the middle of what Africans call ‘the bush’?” As Acemoglu and Robinson explain, “Yoni is the home village of Sierra Leone’s president, Ernest Bai Koroma.”
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.theigc.org/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2015 The Author(s) |
| Divisions: | International Growth Centre |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) J Political Science > JQ Political institutions Asia, Africa, Australia, Pacific |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jun 2017 09:35 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Sep 2025 09:29 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/81865 |
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