Rethinking Institutions Processes And Development In Africa

Author : Ernest Aniche,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538151136

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Rethinking Institutions, Processes and Development in Africa by Ernest Aniche,Toyin Falola Pdf

African scholarship concerning the nexus between institutions and development is still dominated by the economic perspective of development despite the emergence of the humanistic perspective of development. The humanistic perspective is a more embracing, encompassing, and comprehensive view of development than its economic counterpart and offers a better explanation of the African situation. It is essential to examine the relationships between democratic political institutions and human development. This collection examines democratic institutions and processes in post-independence Africa. The contributors examine the political institutional processes in post-colonial Africa, evaluating the workings of institutions such as education, bureaucracy, interest groups, trade unions, and problems of enforcements in Africa. It also discusses the relevance of creative arts for political socialization as well as the role effects of privatization on service delivery in contemporary African societies.

Author : Frances Cleaver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351569521

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Development Through Bricolage by Frances Cleaver Pdf

Why, despite an emphasis on 'getting institutions right', do development initiatives so infrequently deliver as planned? Why do many institutions designed for natural resource management (e.g. Water User Associations, Irrigation Committees, Forest Management Councils) not work as planners intended? This book disputes the model of development by design and argues that institutions are formed through the uneven patching together of old practices and accepted norms with new arrangements. The managing of natural resources and delivery of development through such processes of 'bricolage' is likened to 'institutional 'DIY' rather than engineering or design. The author explores the processes involved in institutional bricolage; the constant renegotiation of norms, the reinvention of tradition, the importance of legitimate authority and the role of people themselves in shaping such arrangements. Bricolage is seen as an inevitable, but not always benign process; the extent to which it reproduces social inequalities or creates space for challenging them is also considered. The book draws on a number of contemporary strands of development thinking about collective action, participation, governance, natural resource management, political ecology and wellbeing. It synthesises these to develop new understandings of why and how people act to manage resources and how access is secured or denied. A variety of case studies ranging from the management of water (Zimbabwe, India, Pakistan), conflict and cooperation over land, grazing and water (Tanzania), and the emergence of community management of forests (Sweden, Nepal), illustrate the context specific and generalised nature of bricolage and the resultant challenges for development policy and practice.

Author : Vincent Ostrom,David Feeny,Hartmut Picht
Publisher : ICS Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822016868846

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Rethinking Institutional Analysis and Development by Vincent Ostrom,David Feeny,Hartmut Picht Pdf

Author : Busani Mpofu,Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789201772

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Rethinking and Unthinking Development by Busani Mpofu,Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni Pdf

Development has remained elusive in Africa. Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on Southern Africa’s former white settler states, South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume responds to the current need to rethink (and unthink) development in the region. The authors explore how Africa can adapt Western development models suited to its political, economic, social and cultural circumstances, while rejecting development practices and discourses based on exploitative capitalist and colonial tendencies. Beyond the legacies of colonialism, the volume also explores other factors impacting development, including regional politics, corruption, poor policies on empowerment and indigenization, and socio-economic and cultural barriers.

Author : Moyo, Theresa
Publisher : CODESRIA
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9782869785717

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Trade and Industrial Development in Africa by Moyo, Theresa Pdf

This book revisits the perennial challenge that scholars, economists, and politicians have been grappling with since the 1960s. Development, in this book, has been defined in a context that projects it as a multidimensional and complex process which seeks to enhance the human, social, economic and cultural welfare of the people. This book calls for a rethinking of trade and industry for Africa's development. It uses data drawn from national development plans and strategies, and trade and industry issues have been prioritized at the continental level, in key policy documents. On the whole Africa's industry and trade performance have been poor in spite of national, regional, and continental plans. The contributors to this volume propose some alternative strategies and policies which are necessary for trade and industry to grow and to contribute to the well-being of Africa's people. It calls for a developmental trade and industry policy which, fundamentally, must be people-centred. African states should invest time, energy and resources to develop policies which will take into consideration African realities.The different contributors are aware that Africa has experienced strong economic growth in the recent past but this growth has largely been due to a strong demand for Africa's primary commodity exports. It has also been a result of increases in productivity and domestic investment and remittances from Africans living in the Diaspora. It is important to note that despite this unprecedented growth performance, the impact of trade and industry on development has been limited. The book argues that a structural transformation of Africa's economies is inevitable if Africa is to achieve the shift from the dominant paradigm of production and export of primary goods. The various contributors to this book agree that there is need to rethink policy and strategy in order to achieve industrial development in Africa. There is no unique solution or answer that can fit all situations as African countries are not the same. While Africa can draw lessons from other regions which have successfully industrialized, this book argues that policies and strategies will have to be adapted to country-specific situations and circumstances.

Author : Lennart Wohlgemuth,Jerker Carlsson,Henock Kifle
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9171064214

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Institution Building and Leadership in Africa by Lennart Wohlgemuth,Jerker Carlsson,Henock Kifle Pdf

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Author : Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108491990

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Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa by Franklin Obeng-Odoom Pdf

Explores and challenges existing conventions of inequality in Africa while offering new insights to explain persistent poverty across the continent.

Author : Akbar Noman
Publisher : Blackstone Press
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199698561

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Good Growth and Governance in Africa by Akbar Noman Pdf

This volume reflects the highlights of their deliberations.

Author : P. Thandika Mkandawire,Charles Chukwuma Soludo
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Ian Scoones,Andy Stirling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000163407

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The Politics of Uncertainty by Ian Scoones,Andy Stirling Pdf

Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? To explore the underlying reasons, issues and challenges, this book’s chapters address finance and banking, insurance, technology regulation and critical infrastructures, as well as climate change, infectious disease responses, natural disasters, migration, crime and security and spirituality and religion. The book argues that uncertainties must be understood as complex constructions of knowledge, materiality, experience, embodiment and practice. Examining in particular how uncertainties are experienced in contexts of marginalisation and precarity, this book shows how sustainability and development are not just technical issues, but depend deeply on political values and choices. What burgeoning uncertainties require lies less in escalating efforts at control, but more in a new – more collective, mutualistic and convivial – politics of responsibility and care. If hopes of much-needed progressive transformation are to be realised, then currently blinkered understandings of uncertainty need to be met with renewed democratic struggle. Written in an accessible style and illustrated by multiple case studies from across the world, this book will appeal to a wide cross-disciplinary audience in fields ranging from economics to law to science studies to sociology to anthropology and geography, as well as professionals working in risk management, disaster risk reduction, emergencies and wider public policy fields.

Author : R. Sooryamoorthy,Nene Ernest Khalema
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780197608494

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The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Africa by R. Sooryamoorthy,Nene Ernest Khalema Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Africa presents to a broad readership an accessible, comprehensive, up to date, and topical comparative analysis of sociological thinking in Africa. Sociological discourse about African societies has been challenging and difficult, due to a lack of both comprehensive analyses and holistic sociological evidence that covers Africa from past to present times. This Handbook brings together latest analyses of sociological phenomena from the best scholars working on numerous thematic areas. It provides contributions that locates African sociological thinking in historical context and takes a critical look at its current manifestations across the continent. This collection builds upon an existing body of literature which has demonstrated that while the analysis of African societies has long been an item on the agenda of sociologists worldwide, advances of the decolonial critique made notably by African scholars in Africa enhances the scholarship of the sociology of Africa. Thus, the collection is premised upon the understanding that in order to understand the sociology of Africa as significant intervention, the participation and representation of African ways of knowing and doing is a critical starting point. This Handbook comprises a series of scholarly and interdisciplinary perspectives on current debates over how best to unpack sociological imaginations in African context. The scholarly contributions, therefore, are based on both perspectives illustrating the importance of specificity in sociological phenomenon. The Handbook is arranged in seven parts: Context and Perspectives; Race, Ethnicity, and Religion; Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality; Medical Sociology: Political Economy and Development; Crime and Violence; and The Family and Education. Premised on the importance of African ways of knowing and doing, these chapters offer sociologists, researchers, and students an invaluable starting point for a fuller understanding of African sociology.

Author : Ariel Ira Ahram,Patrick Köllner,Rudra Sil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190846374

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Comparative Area Studies by Ariel Ira Ahram,Patrick Köllner,Rudra Sil Pdf

In Comparative Area Studies, the editors and contributors are motivated by two basic convictions: first, that intensive regional research remains indispensable to the social sciences; and second, that this research risks becoming marginalized in the absence of concerted efforts to link it to disciplinary concepts and theories that have relevance beyond a single region.

Author : Emeka C. Iloh,Ernest T. Aniche,Stephen N. Azom
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666930368

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African Political Economy in the Twenty-First Century by Emeka C. Iloh,Ernest T. Aniche,Stephen N. Azom Pdf

This book contributes to the debate concerning the future of the political economy of African development by addressing the important question of how African countries can strategically approach global political economy at multilateral, continental, and regional levels in view of North-South versus South-South configurations.

Author : Benjamin Ofori-Amoah
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031591815

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The African Continental Free Trade Area by Benjamin Ofori-Amoah Pdf

Author : Brian Levy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199363803

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Working with the Grain by Brian Levy Pdf

If you want to understand how politics, institutions, and policy interact with each other to produce economic success or failure - not over the very long run when we are all dead, but in the shorter run that affects us all - there are few books that pack as much insight as this one. Brian Levy is a practitioner who can theorize as well as any scholar. But the real value added of this book is the practical and pragmatic approach it brings to institutional reform." Dani Rodrik, Albert Hirschman Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.