Governance And Internal Warsin Sub Saharan Africa

Author : Abdulahi A. Osman
Publisher : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781909112827

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Governance and Internal Warsin Sub-Saharan Africa by Abdulahi A. Osman Pdf

The 1990s have brought unprecedented violence, economic decline and suffering for many African countries. Much of the optimism that greeted the independence decade of the 1960s, when Africa was called the "e;continent of the future"e; has turned into failure and disappointment. The increase in these conflicts has been blamed on several variables, including colonialism, ethnic diversity, end of the Cold War and economic decline. While many African countries have managed to maintain a modicum of peace, stability and growth, some have clearly failed woefully in this regard. This raises a very fundamental question: How and why did some countries manage to avert internal wars while others did not? The book measures and provides rich details of governance from contextual, structural and policy perspectives. It systematically and uniformly compares two categories of countries: those that experienced internal war and those that did not.

Author : Abdulahi A. Osman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123385036

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Governance and Internal Wars in Sub-Saharan Africa by Abdulahi A. Osman Pdf

Author : Ganahl, Joseph Patrick
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9783869562483

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Corruption, Good Governance, and the African State by Ganahl, Joseph Patrick Pdf

African states are often called corrupt, indicating that the political system in Africa differs from the one prevalent in economically advanced democracies. This, however, does not give us any insight into what makes corruption the dominant norm of African statehood. Thus we must turn to the overly neglected theoretical work on the political economy of Africa in order to determine how the poverty of governance in Africa is firmly anchored both in Africa’s domestic socioeconomic reality, as well as in the region’s role in the international economic order. Instead of focusing on increased monitoring, enforcement and formal democratic procedures, this book combines economic analysis with political theory in order to arrive at a better understanding of the political-economic roots of corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Author : Tom De Herdt,Jean-Pierre OLIVIER de SARDAN
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317527749

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Real Governance and Practical Norms in Sub-Saharan Africa by Tom De Herdt,Jean-Pierre OLIVIER de SARDAN Pdf

Although international development discourse considers the state as a crucial development actor, there remains a significant discrepancy between the official norms of the state and public services and the actual practices of political elites and civil servants. This text interrogates the variety of ways in which state policies and legal norms have been translated into the set of practical norms which make up real governance in sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that the concept of practical norms is an appropriate tool for an ethnographic investigation of public bureaucracies, interactions between civil servants and users, and the daily functioning of the state in Africa. It demonstrates that practical norms are usually different from official norms, complementing, bypassing and even contradicting them. In addition, it explores the positive and negative effects of different aspects of this ‘real governance’. This text will be of key interest to academics, students and researchers in the fields of development, political science, anthropology and development studies, African studies, international comparative studies, implementation studies, and public policy.

Author : Taisier Mohamed Ahmed Ali,Robert O. Matthews
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780773517776

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Civil Wars in Africa by Taisier Mohamed Ahmed Ali,Robert O. Matthews Pdf

A collection of case studies of nine African countries, Civil Wars in Africa provides a comparative perspective on the causes of civil war and the processes by which internal conflict may be resolved or averted. The book focuses on the wars in Ethiopia, Liberia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, and Uganda as well as the experiences of Tanzania and Zimbabwe, where civil war was averted, to underline conditions under which conflict can most successfully be managed. John Kiyaga-Nsubuga focuses on Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement regime's attempt to bring peace to Uganda. John Prendergast and Mark Duffield look at Ethiopia's long civil war and the role of liberation politics and external engagement. Bruce Jones studies the ethnic roots of the civil war in Rwanda. Elwood Dunn explores political manipulation and ethnic differences as causes of civil strife in Liberia. John Saul examines the role of Western powers in establishing peace in Mozambique. Hussein Adam describes the collapse of the authoritarian regime in Somalia and the subsequent rise of inter-clan and sub-clan rivalry. Taisier Ali and Robert Matthews argue that the forty-year conflict in Sudan is much more complex than the usual view that it results from the pitting of the Arab, Islamic North against the African, Christian South. Shifting the focus to how internal unrest may be managed, Hevina Dashwood examines government initiatives undertaken to maintain stability in Zimbabwe and Cranford Pratt describes the policies and institutions developed by Nyerere that enabled Tanzania to avoid ethnic, regional, and religious factionalism and intra-elite rivalries. James Busumtwi-Sam explores multilateral third-party intervention, highlighting the changing role of the OAU and the United Nations and their effectiveness in averting war. The concluding chapter draws together findings from the individual case studies and incorporates them into the larger corpus of the literature. Taisier M. Ali, formerly professor of political economy at the University of Khartoum, is presently a visiting scholar in the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto. Robert O. Matthews is professor of political science, University of Toronto.

Author : Fidelis Etah Ewane
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640188666

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Aid and Conditionality: Enhancing Good Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa by Fidelis Etah Ewane Pdf

Master's Thesis from the year 2004 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, grade: Merit, University of Kent, 55 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The persistent low state of development in sub-Saharan Africa has become a global challenge. Academics and think-tanks continue to search for solutions to Africa's longstanding problems. Studies have proven that the entire region is essentially confronted with a crisis of social structures and government and the fragmentation of authority is the hallmark of this crisis (Van Hoyweghen & Smis, 2002:575). Over twenty-four million people are infected with AIDS/HIV, growth of per capita income is low and civil wars have killed millions in Rwanda, Burundi, Liberia, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo. African governments owe billions of dollars in debt (Polanyi, 2003:563). This irreversible trend brought the good governance discourse in development cooperation between the donors and African counterparts. The purpose of this paper is to examine how the concept of good governance is being implemented in Africa. For clarity purposes, the work is limited to the analysis of the efforts being made by the European Union (EU) and the World Bank in assisting African countries to implement good governance. This choice is based on the fact that the EU and World Bank are the main multilateral aid donors and development partners of the region. It argues that good governance enhances transparency in the use of development aid, helps to reduce poverty and spurs development, and that it is necessary to foster institutional reforms (causative argument). The paper further argues that implementing good governance will improve the use of political power by leaders and help in the consolidation of peace (normative argument). Achieving global governance is a main issue in international politics today. Enforcing good governance is a must if Africa has to be fully integrated into

Author : John Michael Healey,Mark Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070483529

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Democracy, Governance, and Economic Policy by John Michael Healey,Mark Robinson Pdf

Examines the political dimensions of economic policy making in the 1970s and 1980s.

Author : Jan Záhorík
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498536424

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Inequalities and Conflicts in Modern and Contemporary African History by Jan Záhorík Pdf

The book deals with historical, social, economic, political, and international causes, contexts, and consequences of inequalities and conflicts in Africa. In particular, the book is to puts conflicts and turbulences in Ethiopia in a broader, African comparative perspective. It also identifies and analyzes multiple causes of conflicts which cannot be studied only as a result of one variable. Inequalities and conflicts have a whole set of causes stemming from historically inherited, as well as global, international, socio-economic, political and other contexts which cannot be analyzed separately. This book is vital for anyone who is interested in the study of African history, comparative politics, and conflict in Africa.

Author : Xiangming Fang,Siddharth Kothari,Mr.Cameron McLoughlin,Mustafa Yenice
Publisher : INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1513559664

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The Economic Consequences of Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa by Xiangming Fang,Siddharth Kothari,Mr.Cameron McLoughlin,Mustafa Yenice Pdf

Sub-Saharan Africa has been marred by conflicts during the past several decades. While the intensity of conflicts in recent years is lower than that observed in the 1990s, the region remains prone to conflicts, with around 30 percent of the countries affected in 2019. In addition to immeasurable human suffering, conflicts impose large economic costs. On average, annual growth in countries in intense conflicts is about 2.5 percentage points lower, and the cumulative impact on per capita GDP increases over time. Furthermore, conflicts pose significant strains on countries’ public finances, lowering revenue, raising military spending, and shifting resources away from development and social spending.

Author : P. Thandika Mkandawire,Charles Chukwuma Soludo
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781552502044

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Our Continent, Our Future by P. Thandika Mkandawire,Charles Chukwuma Soludo Pdf

Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent's development agenda.

Author : Kelechi A. Kalu,George Klay Kieh Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793649348

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Civil Wars in Africa by Kelechi A. Kalu,George Klay Kieh Jr. Pdf

Civil Wars in Africa, edited by Kelechi A. Kalu and George Klay Kieh, Jr., examines civil conflicts throughout various African countries. They argue that civil wars in Africa are by-products of the contradictions and crises engendered by the post-colonial state-building and nation-building projects in Africa. With few exceptions, the post-colonial states in Africa have failed to build societies that invest in the material well-being of their citizens; protect their political, civil, and other rights; promote accountability, transparency, the rule of law, judicial independence, and the holding of free and fair elections; and promote ethnic pluralism, tolerance, mutual respect, and peaceful co-existence, among others. In addition, the contributors show that the post-colonial states in Africa have been ruled by corrupt and autocratic leaders, who are obsessed with the maintenance of state power as the pathway to ensuring the private accumulation of wealth through sundry illegal means, including bribery, extortion, and theft of public funds. In sum, this volume addresses how the failure of the post-colonial African state to shepherd the process of building democratic societies based on the centrality of human security has led to the erosion of the legitimacy of the state and its custodians. Thus, once the contradictions and crises reached their crescendo, these post-colonial societies than implode into civil wars, even at the micro-level.

Author : Horst Siebert
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Competition, International
ISBN : 9780415402828

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The World Economy by Horst Siebert Pdf

Suitable for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate courses in international economics, this book explores various issues including the fortunes of the international stock market, the impact of the Iraq war, and the rise of China and India as economic powers.

Author : Horst Siebert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134142637

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Global View on the World Economy by Horst Siebert Pdf

This book utilizes up-to-date empirical evidence to illuminate the mechanics of the world as a single entity. The author explores the properties of the world economy, the diverse mechanisms of interdependence, shocks and disturbances, economic processes and structures, and the institutional arrangements that guide these processes.

Author : J. M. Klein
Publisher : 'The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc'
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781725321366

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The History and Government of Sub-Saharan Africa by J. M. Klein Pdf

All of human history begins in Sub-Saharan Africa, where scientists believe the first humans lived. Over time, thousands of ethnic groups inhabited the area, creating villages, cities, unique cultures, and governments. This book explores the historical events, movements, and people who have shaped the region of Sub-Saharan Africa over its long and varied history. How did the transatlantic slave trade affect the region? How did colonialism change the existing governments there? Readers will travel to Sub-Saharan Africa through primary sources, informative text, fact-filled sidebars, and breathtaking photographs to find the answers.

Author : Timothy Besley,Torsten Persson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691158150

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Pillars of Prosperity by Timothy Besley,Torsten Persson Pdf

How nations can promote peace, prosperity, and stability through cohesive political institutions "Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things." So wrote Adam Smith a quarter of a millennium ago. Using the tools of modern political economics and combining economic theory with a bird's-eye view of the data, this book reinterprets Smith's pillars of prosperity to explain the existence of development clusters—places that tend to combine effective state institutions, the absence of political violence, and high per-capita incomes. To achieve peace, the authors stress the avoidance of repressive government and civil conflict. Easy taxes, they argue, refers not to low taxes, but a tax system with widespread compliance that collects taxes at a reasonable cost from a broad base, like income. And a tolerable administration of justice is about legal infrastructure that can support the enforcement of contracts and property rights in line with the rule of law. The authors show that countries tend to enjoy all three pillars of prosperity when they have evolved cohesive political institutions that promote common interests, guaranteeing the provision of public goods. In line with much historical research, international conflict has also been an important force behind effective states by fostering common interests. The absence of common interests and/or cohesive political institutions can explain the existence of very different development clusters in fragile states that are plagued by poverty, violence, and weak state capacity.