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Jostling for power by Nigeria's myriad ethnic groups has, for better and for worse, driven the country's political development since before independence from Britain in 1960. What is new is a rhetoric of the impossible: the marginalization of everyone.

The paper studies the relationship between inequality and economic growth. This is done in a two sector model of endogenous growth with agents characterized by heterogeneity of factor endowments. The private sector consists of a large number of competitive firms who produce the only final good in the economy. This good is both consumable as well as accumulable. The government is seen to produce a productive factor interpreted as infrastructure. Infrastructure is both nonrival and accumulable. Infrastructural services flow into the production of infrastructural stocks as well as the final good. Capital used for infrastructural production is financed by the government by taxing capital income. The choice of the growth rate is determined by the tax rate on capital income. We study the choice of the economy's growth rate under a median voter democracy. The results show that inequality of the distribution of capital does not hamper growth.

This article emphasizes comparative politics research that combines the tools & theories of economics, primarily microeconomics, with the tools & theories of political science. It traces & assesses the transformation of comparative political economy into an approach that actually is both political & economic & outlines a research agenda for the future. 109 References. Adapted from the source document.

The astonishing story of the uproar in Egypt over the publication of a Syrian novel set in Algeria -- a work of literature as trigger for political crisis & polemical turmoil, two decades after it was written, in a landscape completely transformed. Haydar Haydar's fiction as tuning-fork of stark dissonances of time & outlook in the Arab world. Adapted from the source document.