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Managing Development: EU and African Relations through the evolution of the Lomé and Cotonou Agreements
The relationship between the European Union 1 and Africa has been formalised since the beginning of the European integration project in the evolving YaoundĂ©, LomĂ© and now Cotonou Agreements. The relationship has shifted in line with the emerging global framework for neoliberal accumulation. This shift has involved the re-designingâ of developmental strategies and their âlocking-inâ in the long term. Theoretically, this global shift in the organisation of both production and social relations (including popular understandings) has been well documented and the changing dominant patterns of production in advanced industrial economies has been highlighted at length. However, this article aims to develop further the idea of âlocking-inâ, outlined in the work of Stephen Gill, and to place an increased emphasis on the phenomena of both re-designing and locking-in as they apply to the alteration of developmental strategies in Less Developed Countries (LDCs), among which those in Africa have suffered from extreme marginalisation and exploitation. This article reveals the often ignored role of the EU in this process. It argues that the EU, through its institutionalised link with Africa, has played a key role in re-designing developmental strategies to complement the global shift to neoliberal accumulation which, in its latest phase, is aimed particularly at the complex, multifaceted and increasingly integrated project to âlock-inâ the gains of capital over labour on a global scale. The article begins with a brief introduction to the complementary projects of âre-designingâ and âlocking-inâ before considering these against the historical evolution of the LomĂ© and Cotonou relationship
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A Cluster Elastic Net for Multivariate Regression
We propose a method for estimating coefficients in multivariate regression
when there is a clustering structure to the response variables. The proposed
method includes a fusion penalty, to shrink the difference in fitted values
from responses in the same cluster, and an L1 penalty for simultaneous variable
selection and estimation. The method can be used when the grouping structure of
the response variables is known or unknown. When the clustering structure is
unknown the method will simultaneously estimate the clusters of the response
and the regression coefficients. Theoretical results are presented for the
penalized least squares case, including asymptotic results allowing for p >> n.
We extend our method to the setting where the responses are binomial variables.
We propose a coordinate descent algorithm for both the normal and binomial
likelihood, which can easily be extended to other generalized linear model
(GLM) settings. Simulations and data examples from business operations and
genomics are presented to show the merits of both the least squares and
binomial methods.Comment: 37 Pages, 11 Figure
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