The Review of Black Political Economy articles from January 1992

The Review of Black Political Economy archives from January 1992

The dilemma of black banking: lending risks vs. community service. (Freedom National Bank)
January 1, 1992... Black-owned banks face a serious dilemma: founded primarily to help fill the gap between the demand for and supply of credit to the black community, the more they try to respond positively, the greater is the probability that they will fail....

Aid and economic growth in LDCs: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa. (less developed countries)
January 1, 1992... This paper uses a disaggregated cross-national time-series aid data and a Least Squares Dummy Variables (LSDV) model to investigate the effects of aid on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. We find that, contrary to what some critics of aid...

The effect of discrimination and segregation on black male migration.
January 1, 1992... This article develops and tests a model of black male migration to major standard metropolitan statistical area (SMSAs). Migration is examined using a dual labor market approach. a statistical model is tested that incorporates measures of...

The vintage schooling hypothesis and racial differences in earnings and on-the-job training: a longitudinal analysis.
January 1, 1992... Why do younger makes earn more relative to white than do older black males? The literature offers two competing explanations. Smith and Welch suggest this pattern is evidence that employers are rewarding the improved skills of more recently,...

Being Brown: A Very Public Life
January 1, 1992... In Being Brown: A Very Public Life Rosemary Brown candidly analyzes her politics - a mixture of feminism, socialism and Pan-Africanism. She also addresses the tensions and contradictions within the New Democratic Party (NDP), the third major...

The Silent Revolution in Africa: Debt, Development and Democracy.
January 1, 1992... This book tackles an issue that has become very important to human development in Africa. In recent years African debt has excalated significantly, resulting in what is being described as a development crisis. In fact, by the end of 1989,...