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Item Open Access Academic Performance in comparative perspective(African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2019-08-05) Pelizzo, RiccardoEast Africa has traditionally had good universities. The data collected and made available by Scimago allow one to assess how good East African universities are in comparative perspective....Item Open Access African Development at Risk(African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2019-07-30) Pelizzo, RiccardoIn 2018 Abel Kinyondo, Zim Nwokora and I co-authored a paper entitled ‘Development in Africa’ which was eventually published by World Affairs. In the article we claimed that the development progress that countries in Sub-Saharan Africa had experienced was the result of several factors...Item Open Access Africa’s wealth(African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2019-10-22) Pelizzo, RiccardoFor the past few years, we have summarized the key findings of the Africa Wealth Report produced by the AfrAsia bank....Item Open Access Corruption Perception Index 2019(African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2020-01-25) Pelizzo, RiccardoTransparency International has just released the Corruption Perception Index for 2019. One of the notable changes revealed by Transparency international’s data is that Kazakhstan improved its score by 3 points -from 31 to 34- and climbed to the 113rd position worldwide...Item Open Access How do African millionaires spend their money?(African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2019-04-24) Pelizzo, RiccardoAs we noted in a previous post, Africa has 145000 High Net Worth Individuals whose assets are worth about 800 billion. Overall Africans’ net worth is estimated in 2.2 trillion US dollars. The number of HNWIs has increased considerably in the past decade and is expected to grow nearly as much in the next decade....Item Open Access Korean lesson for Africa(African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2019-07-31) Pelizzo, RiccardoThe South Korean case has extensively been investigated by political economists. It was one of the best known cases of a developmental state -a state that, by making the right choices, is able to create the conditions for socio-economic development....Item Open Access New year, old problems(African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2020-01-22) Pelizzo, RiccardoItem Open Access News from Africa: the good, the bad and the ugly(African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2019-08-02) Pelizzo, RiccardoSome news are good and possibily very good: in Mozambique, the government and RENAMO have signed a peace deal, while, according to President Buhari, 5 million Nigerians have been lifted out of poverty in the past three years...Item Open Access Problems won’t end in January(African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2020-01-29) Pelizzo, RiccardoItem Open Access The state of Africa: the universities(African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2020-01-27) Pelizzo, RiccardoA few days ago a Tanzanian friend noted, in an email, that “Africa is going backwards socially, politically and most importantly economically”. Few hours later, a friend from Togo remarked that “the situation is worsening day after day”...