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New african studies findings from University of Manchester published

Published in Law and Health Weekly, September 15th, 2007

"This article examines the ways in which illicit gem mining in Madagascar indicates the highly variable impacts of globalisation in sub-Saharan Africa," scientists writing in the Journal of Modern African Studies report.

"It argues that distinct categories such as global/local, legal/iflegal and traditional/ modern have lost much of their explanatory power. Far from being distinct categories, they are indivisible and constitute a single, complex whole which produces enormous wealth, coupled with high degrees of poverty and marginalisation in precisely the same locations," wrote R. Duffy and colleagues, University of Manchester.

The researchers...

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