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Should politicians give money to the poor?

29/4/2019

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All politics involves distribution. Indeed, many would claim that politics is at its heart about controlling distribution: who gets what, when and how. Political debate over ‘empowerment schemes’ in Nigeria however shows how our ideas of what counts as legitimate forms of distribution are overly simplistic.

Read more on the Democracy in Africa blog where I summarise my upcoming article in Journal of Modern African Studies.
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