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New Regionalism and Sub-Saharan Africa
Řehák, Vilém ; Kučerová, Irah (advisor) ; Lukáš, Ivan (referee)
The diploma thesis "New Regionalism and Sub-Saharan Africa" deals with the question of economic integration in Africa and its theoretical reflexion. First chapter deals with the question whether different integration theories are applicable to African reality or not. Author subsequently analyzes Pan-Africanism as a specifically African ideology, classical economic integration theories, classical theories of political science on integration and modern theories of political science, with the conclusion that neither of these theories provides explanation of speeding up African integration in recent years. Chapter two deals with the phenomenon of so-called "new regionalism" as a process in world economy, second part deals with different theoretical conceptions and theories trying to describe and theorize about this process. Chapter three briefly describes evolution of African integration from its colonial starts to the newest initiatives connected with the transformation of Organization of African Unity into African Union. Chapter four offers five case studies of integration in different regional organizations. Each case study outlines starting position in 1991 in the sense of creation of organization, its aims and evolution of integration up to signing of the Abuja Treaty creating African Economic...
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The impact of a new scramble for Africa between the EU and China - a comparative case study of foreign direct investment in Senegal and Zambia
Mocák, Filip ; Kučerová, Irah (advisor) ; Mazač, Jan (referee)
The goal of this research is to shed light on the impact of European foreign direct investment and growing Chinese foreign direct investment in Sub-Saharan Africa through lenses of neocolonialism and orientalism. A case study analysis is utilized to grasp the topic appropriately. Two case studies were set - Senegal and Zambia case study. While Senegal serves predominantly as a case study for the impact of EU foreign direct investments, The case study of Zambia helps to understand how Chinese FDI inflow affects Sub-Saharan countries. Therefore, six hypotheses were outlined. This work researches the impact of FDI on the level of democracy represented by the democratic index of The Economist Intelligence Unit, business freedom embodied in The Heritage Foundation's economic freedom index, and stability of state symbolised by the fragile state index studied by The Fund for Peace. All three indexes above are available for free online. The correlation between EU FDI and level of democracy was confirmed while Chinese FDI negatively affects democratic development in studied countries. Next, European FDI positively affects the level of economic freedom in Senegal as well as Zambia. Nevertheless, increased Chinese FDI inflow to the countries deteriorated their economic freedom. Lastly, there is no clear...
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Three essays in Development Economics
Valíčková, Petra ; Cahlík, Tomáš (advisor) ; Janda, Karel (referee) ; Ščasný, Milan (referee) ; Nicolas, Claire (referee)
This dissertation thesis touches on some important aspects of development, including financial development and improved access to reliable energy sources, regional integration and expanded opportunities for trade. This thesis was written to help guide policy reforms especially in developing countries to expand sources of growth and put countries on track to better meet their long-term development goals, including a better and more sustainable future for everyone. This dissertation consists of three papers. In the first paper I investigate the empirical evidence on the relationship between financial development and economic growth. In doing so, I assessed over 270 studies for their potential inclusion in a meta-analysis. From those studies that contained an empirical estimate of the finance growth relationship, I compiled 1,334 coefficients and coded study characteristics for each. Taking the reported estimates together, I find a positive link between financial development and economic growth, but with widely varying individual estimates. By applying a multi-variate meta-regression, I explain the variation in reported results, stemming not only from differences in research design (by authors addressing or ignoring potential endogeneity issues) but also from real drivers (different regional and time...
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Vliv mikrofinancování na vybrané ukazatele socioekonomického rozvoje v subsaharské Africe
Štěpáníková, Veronika
The aim of this thesis is to analyse the impact of microfinance on selected socio-economic development indicators in Sub-Saharan Africa. Research was examined through panel data analysis from 2009 to 2014. The theoretical part provides an overview about sub-Saharan Africa, microfinance and its principles, socio-economic development, exploratory indicators and about statistical methods. The analytical part analyses research data through deviate test, descriptive characteristics, cluster analysis and canonical correlation analysis.
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Možnosti podpory vzdělávání a zaměstnanosti mladých lidí v subsaharské Africe
Křivánková, Alena
The diploma thesis evaluates how education influences the success of young people in the labour market in Zambia and analyses the causes for unemployment and underemployment. The work covers a literature review of education and the labour market in Zambia, as well as the description of economic and social aspects of the country. The practical part contains analysis of the matters which is followed by the development project proposal. The proposal is administrated according to the Czech Development Agency and which aims to improve the situation in rural area of Kashitu in Zambia. This project focuses on reducing youth unemployment and development of economic activities in Kashitu through the construction of a new vocational centre. Foundation for the project is based on the research, which used a method of participant observation in the field, and on the cooperation with local community non-profit organization New Renato Community Society.
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the Role of Infrastructural Development In the Economies of Sub-Sahara Africa
Kwao, Alexander Edem
The thesis seeks to investigate the role of infrastructural development in the economies of the Sub-Saharan African; while controlling for the effects of foreign direct investment and trade openness on the relationship between the economic variables (e.g., infrastructural development and economic growth). The study uses a panel data of twenty-nine (29) countries selected throughout 2011-2015 in Sub-Saharan Africa based on similar income size. Pooled Ordinary Least Square (i.e., OLS) is used to estimate the relationship among all of the economic variables involved. The research result shows that infrastructural development has a positive and statistically significant effect on economic growth, but the foreign direct investment has no significant effect on economic growth. Also, trade openness has a negative and statistically significant impact on the economic growth in the Sub-Saharan African economies. The conclusion is that infrastructural development plays critical and central roles in the rapid and sustainable economic growth and development in the sub-Saharan African.
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Analysis of stereotypes in tv travel shows of selected states of sub-Saharan Africa
Ferreira de Sousa, Natalie ; Jirků, Jan (advisor) ; Just, Petr (referee)
This thesis aims to analyze stereotypes in Czech TV travel shows with a focus on the region of sub-Saharan Africa. The chosen form of research is a content analysis, divided into three parts: thematic, visual, and textual. Thematic analysis focuses on the selection of topics. Visual on how the camera processes the story and the text part analyzes the keywords. Selected programs that were used for this research are three TV travel shows of Czech production: Objektiv, Cestománie, and Koření. All three programs show that the tendency to portray sub-Saharan Africa outside of the news is rather stereotypical, and Africa's unified media presentation highlights recurring themes: political instability, poverty, or a beauty of African nature.
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Comparison of China-Angola and China-Nigeria relations in regards to energy security and Chinese investment
Löfflerová, Michaela ; Kučerová, Irah (advisor) ; Mazač, Jan (referee)
Michaela Löfflerová Comparison of China-Angola and China-Nigeria relations in regards to energy security and Chinese investments Abstract The master thesis "Comparison of China-Angola and China-Nigeria relations in regards to energy security and Chinese investment" focuses on the analysis of Chinese activities towards Angola and Nigeria as representatives of Subsaharan oil-rich countries. The thesis aims to test two hypotheses about China's approach to Angola and Nigeria in the period 2000-2007 and 2008-2018. The first hypothesis, based on the concept of energy security, tests whether China's approach to oil-rich countries has changed over the period under review as a result of the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent global trends. The second hypothesis, based on the concept of neocolonialism, tests whether Chinese activities have expanded into other sectors through oil extraction, which in turn has led to a significant dependence of states on China. The diploma thesis aims to focus on economical, security, and political aspects using quantitative and qualitative analyzes. Monitoring China's activities in these countries serve as a case study of the impact of Chinese foreign policy on resource-rich countries in the second and third world. In the last chapters, the thesis will focus on the analysis of the...
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