Berhanu Abegaz
Biographic Data
| ID | 123039 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Berhanu Abegaz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Berhanu |
| FAMILY NAME | Abegaz |
| SIGNATURE | ABEGAZ B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Williams (United States) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Isolation and Characterization of Chemical Constituents From Chrysophyllum Albidum G. Don-Holl. Stem-Bark Extracts and Their Antioxidant and Antibacterial Properties
Background: The plant, Chrysophyllum albidum is indigenous to Nigeria and its stem-bark has found relevance in folkloric medicine for infections and oxidative stress linked diseases medicaments. The study targets to isolate the chemical constituents accountable for the antioxidant and antibacterial actions of the plant stem-bark to substantiate some of its ethnomedicinal uses. Materials and Methods: Stem-bark extract of Chrysophyllum albidum was …
Aid, accountability and institution building in Ethiopia: The self-limiting nature of technocratic aid
Forty billion dollars of ODA over the past two decades has reduced destitution in post-socialist and post-conflict Ethiopia. It has also boosted the technocratic capacity of exclusionary state institutions, while doubly enfeebling the fledgling private sector and independent political and civic organisations. This aid–institution paradox is a product of an alignment of donor–recipient strategic interests. The five major donors pursued geopolitica…
Political Parties in Business: Rent Seekers, Developmentalists, or Both
Ruling party-owned conglomerates (Parbus) are emerging in some post-conflict African economies following state capture by ethnic parties. We offer an analytical framework, buttressed by four country case studies of ‘developmental ethnocracies’ in Africa and Asia to identify when Parbus dominance can be redistributive wealth-seeking and when wealth-creating. Four regime characteristics underpin the prospects for wealth creation over rent-seeking: …
Old plants newly discovered: Cassia sieberiana D.C. and Cassia abbreviata Oliv. Oliv. root extracts inhibit in vitro HIV-1c replication in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) by different modes…
The 2005 Ethiopian Elections: Millstone or Milestone
Ye’Netsanet Goh Siqed: Liqelebes Ye’Temokerew Ye’Ityopia Demokraci [As the Dawn of Freedom Breaks: Ethiopian Democracy Imperiled with Derailment] by Berhanu Nega. Addis Ababa (Kaliti Prison), 2006, 615 pp. Democracy is ultimately about the sovereignty and political equality of citizens, and the institutions of accountability that are undergirded by a culture of respect for the rule of law. If free balloting were the essence of democracy, the May …
Antimicrobial activity of the methanolic extracts and compounds from Treculia obovoidea (Moraceae)
Persistent Stasis in a Tributary Mode of Production: The Peasant Economy of Ethiopia
The paradox of Ethiopia's agrarian economy is that, despite underwriting a world civilization, the transition to an industrial economy has eluded it. Using a model of Afro-Asiatic tributarism, we attribute this outcome to endemic extractive contests between a predominantly landed peasantry and a titled, prebendary overlord class. The latter's strategy of political accumulation inevitably engendered immiserization of overlord and peasant alike by …
Escaping Ethiopia's poverty trap: The Case for a Second Agrarian Reform
Growth-friendly egalitarian distribution of land and smallholder farming notwithstanding, rural Ethiopia continues to face an ever-deepening livelihoods crisis. This paper synthesises the theoretical and empirical literature on Ethiopian and other comparable land institutions, in search of a coherent economic framework for pinpointing the roots of the problem and a menu for sensible policy options. It argues that land privatisation, as an integra…
Structural Convergence in Manufacturing Industries between Leaders and Latecomers
This article uses cross-country panel data on three-digit manufacturing to test for progressive structural convergence in industrial output mix between industrialising and industrialised economies. Regressions based on Logistic and Almost-Ideal models show that industrial deepening entails share losses for light and selected heavy manufacturing, and share gains for engineering and consumer durables. While semi-industrial economies manage to shift…
Other books in review
The Challenge of European Integration: Internal and External Problems of Trade and Money
Introduction - the challenge of European integration, Berhanu Abegaz et al. Part l The international economy: historical perspectives and future prospects, Barry Eichengreen. Part 2 Preferential trade arrangements: preferential trade arrangemenms and the GATT - EC 1992 as rogue or role model?, Beth V. Yarbrough regional arrangements - GATT, rules and property rights, J.Michael Finger regional blocs - policy co-ordination and trade strategy, Geza …
The economics of surplus squeeze under peripheral socialism: An Ethiopian illustration
Escaping Ethiopia's poverty trap: The Case for a Second Agrarian Reform
Growth-friendly egalitarian distribution of land and smallholder farming notwithstanding, rural Ethiopia continues to face an ever-deepening livelihoods crisis. This paper synthesises the theoretical and empirical literature on Ethiopian and other comparable land institutions, in search of a coherent economic framework for pinpointing the roots of the problem and a menu for sensible policy options. It argues that land privatisation, as an integra…
Aid, accountability and institution building in Ethiopia: The self-limiting nature of technocratic aid
Forty billion dollars of ODA over the past two decades has reduced destitution in post-socialist and post-conflict Ethiopia. It has also boosted the technocratic capacity of exclusionary state institutions, while doubly enfeebling the fledgling private sector and independent political and civic organisations. This aid–institution paradox is a product of an alignment of donor–recipient strategic interests. The five major donors pursued geopolitica…
Persistent Stasis in a Tributary Mode of Production: The Peasant Economy of Ethiopia
The paradox of Ethiopia's agrarian economy is that, despite underwriting a world civilization, the transition to an industrial economy has eluded it. Using a model of Afro-Asiatic tributarism, we attribute this outcome to endemic extractive contests between a predominantly landed peasantry and a titled, prebendary overlord class. The latter's strategy of political accumulation inevitably engendered immiserization of overlord and peasant alike by …
The economics of surplus squeeze under peripheral socialism: An Ethiopian illustration
The Challenge of European Integration: Internal and External Problems of Trade and Money
Introduction - the challenge of European integration, Berhanu Abegaz et al. Part l The international economy: historical perspectives and future prospects, Barry Eichengreen. Part 2 Preferential trade arrangements: preferential trade arrangemenms and the GATT - EC 1992 as rogue or role model?, Beth V. Yarbrough regional arrangements - GATT, rules and property rights, J.Michael Finger regional blocs - policy co-ordination and trade strategy, Geza …
Other books in review
Structural Convergence in Manufacturing Industries between Leaders and Latecomers
This article uses cross-country panel data on three-digit manufacturing to test for progressive structural convergence in industrial output mix between industrialising and industrialised economies. Regressions based on Logistic and Almost-Ideal models show that industrial deepening entails share losses for light and selected heavy manufacturing, and share gains for engineering and consumer durables. While semi-industrial economies manage to shift…
Escaping Ethiopia's poverty trap: The Case for a Second Agrarian Reform
Growth-friendly egalitarian distribution of land and smallholder farming notwithstanding, rural Ethiopia continues to face an ever-deepening livelihoods crisis. This paper synthesises the theoretical and empirical literature on Ethiopian and other comparable land institutions, in search of a coherent economic framework for pinpointing the roots of the problem and a menu for sensible policy options. It argues that land privatisation, as an integra…
Persistent Stasis in a Tributary Mode of Production: The Peasant Economy of Ethiopia
The paradox of Ethiopia's agrarian economy is that, despite underwriting a world civilization, the transition to an industrial economy has eluded it. Using a model of Afro-Asiatic tributarism, we attribute this outcome to endemic extractive contests between a predominantly landed peasantry and a titled, prebendary overlord class. The latter's strategy of political accumulation inevitably engendered immiserization of overlord and peasant alike by …
The 2005 Ethiopian Elections: Millstone or Milestone
Ye’Netsanet Goh Siqed: Liqelebes Ye’Temokerew Ye’Ityopia Demokraci [As the Dawn of Freedom Breaks: Ethiopian Democracy Imperiled with Derailment] by Berhanu Nega. Addis Ababa (Kaliti Prison), 2006, 615 pp. Democracy is ultimately about the sovereignty and political equality of citizens, and the institutions of accountability that are undergirded by a culture of respect for the rule of law. If free balloting were the essence of democracy, the May …
Antimicrobial activity of the methanolic extracts and compounds from Treculia obovoidea (Moraceae)
Old plants newly discovered: Cassia sieberiana D.C. and Cassia abbreviata Oliv. Oliv. root extracts inhibit in vitro HIV-1c replication in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) by different modes…
Political Parties in Business: Rent Seekers, Developmentalists, or Both
Ruling party-owned conglomerates (Parbus) are emerging in some post-conflict African economies following state capture by ethnic parties. We offer an analytical framework, buttressed by four country case studies of ‘developmental ethnocracies’ in Africa and Asia to identify when Parbus dominance can be redistributive wealth-seeking and when wealth-creating. Four regime characteristics underpin the prospects for wealth creation over rent-seeking: …
Aid, accountability and institution building in Ethiopia: The self-limiting nature of technocratic aid
Forty billion dollars of ODA over the past two decades has reduced destitution in post-socialist and post-conflict Ethiopia. It has also boosted the technocratic capacity of exclusionary state institutions, while doubly enfeebling the fledgling private sector and independent political and civic organisations. This aid–institution paradox is a product of an alignment of donor–recipient strategic interests. The five major donors pursued geopolitica…
Isolation and Characterization of Chemical Constituents From Chrysophyllum Albidum G. Don-Holl. Stem-Bark Extracts and Their Antioxidant and Antibacterial Properties
Background: The plant, Chrysophyllum albidum is indigenous to Nigeria and its stem-bark has found relevance in folkloric medicine for infections and oxidative stress linked diseases medicaments. The study targets to isolate the chemical constituents accountable for the antioxidant and antibacterial actions of the plant stem-bark to substantiate some of its ethnomedicinal uses. Materials and Methods: Stem-bark extract of Chrysophyllum albidum was …
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