Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
92
result(s) for
"Ndulo, Muna"
Sort by:
The Routledge Handbook of African Law
The Routledge Handbook of African Law provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the contemporary legal terrain in Africa. The international team of expert contributors adopt an analytical and comparative approach so that readers can see the nexus between different jurisdictions and different legal traditions across the continent.
Providing important insights into both the specific contexts of African legal systems and the ways in which these legal traditions intersect with the wider world, this handbook will be an essential resource for academics, researchers, lawyers, and graduate and undergraduate students studying this ever-evolving field.
The volume is divided into five parts covering:
Legal pluralism and African legal systems
The state, institutions, constitutionalism, and democratic governance
Economic development, technology, trade, and investment
Human rights, gender-based violence, and access to justice
International law, institutions, and international criminal law
eBook
Poverty reduction in the course of African development
In the light of the opportunities and the challenges facing African economies in the 21st century, this edited volume traces an evolution of poverty in the course of economic development in sub-Saharan Africa over the recent decades. By engaging with and seeking to develop on the work of Professor Erik Thorbecke, it examines the evolving dynamics of poverty in multiple dimensions, in the light of Africa’s growth spell since the turn of the 21st century. It further discusses the way forward for addressing the question of how to lay down a foundation for improved governance and institutions towards realization of inclusive development in sub-Saharan Africa. Thus, the volume aims to contribute to our understanding of dynamics of pro-poor growth and pro-growth poverty reduction, and to ongoing policy and academic debates on how to overcome fragility and vulnerability and secure inclusive development through socio-economic transformation in sub-Saharan Africa. The volume is divided into four parts: two overview chapters in Part I set out a common theme running through the volume. Four chapters in Part II examine an evolution of the poverty profile in different dimensions in sub-Saharan Africa since the new millennium. Part III presents three country case studies of tracing poverty dynamics under a country-specific institutional and policy environment. Part IV consists of three chapters, each of which addresses the question of how to advance an inclusive development agenda in sub-Saharan Africa, but from three different perspectives—structural changes, a governance framework, and an institutional foundation.
eBook
Financing Innovation and Sustainable Development in Africa
This book derives from a symposium held at Cornell University in April 2014. The symposium explored development financing, which has become an important area of policy discussion in Africa and other developing areas in recent years. Using multifaceted and multidisciplinary analytical approaches, it considers the role of the banking system, the stock market, credit access, external aid, and sovereign wealth funds in the evolving development finance architecture. Further, the volume looks at China's role as an aid donor, the impact of BRICs partnerships in South Africa, the role of NEPAD in mobilizing resources for infrastructure development, and the links between law, trade, and regional integration. The study concurs with previous analyses that greater access to credit by the poor represents the most effective way of fighting poverty and raising the standards of living in Africa. Cornell's Institute for African Development and the African Development Bank were cosponsors of the 2014 symposium.
eBook
The Routledge handbook of African law: a historical, political, social, and economic context of law in Africa
The Routledge Handbook of African Law provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the contemporary legal terrain in Africa. The international team of expert contributors adopt an analytical and comparative approach so that readers can see the nexus between different jurisdictions and different legal traditions across the continent.The volume is divided into five parts covering:Legal Pluralism and African Legal SystemsThe State, Institutions, Constitutionalism, and Democratic GovernanceEconomic Development, Technology, Trade, and InvestmentHuman Rights, Gender-Based Violence, and Access to JusticeInternational Law, Institutions, and International Criminal LawProviding important insights into both the specific contexts of African legal systems and the ways in which these legal traditions intersect with the wider world, this handbook will be an essential resource for academics, researchers, lawyers, and graduate and undergraduate students studying this ever-evolving field.
eBook
Problems, Promises, and Paradoxes of Aid
This book is an anthology of essays contributing new scholarship to the contemporary discourse on the concept of aid. It provides an interdisciplinary investigation of the role of aid in African development, compiling the work of historians, political scientists, legal scholars, and economists to examine where aid has failed and to offer new perspectives on how aid can be made more effective. Questions regarding the effectiveness of aid are addressed here using specific case studies. The que.
eBook
Growing democracy in Africa : elections, accountable governance, and political economy
What is the state of governance in sub-Saharan Africa? Is it possible to identify the best practices and approaches to establishing political systems that promote accountability, transparency, peace, and civic space for all? These are the questions addressed in this book. While the concept of governance is considered to be central to political science, our understanding of it is still imprecise, with extant studies focused primarily either on think-tank indicators, economic management, or political studies of democratization. This book critically examines the record on democratization in Africa thus far, and seeks a new, integrated, focused approach to the study of governance. Such an approach requires revisiting the concept of governance itself, with emphasis on certain decisive components and critical issues. Considered in a democratic framework, the concept of governance can be employed to cast light on accountability issues in several arenas, four of which are considered in detail in this volume: institutions and the rule of law; constitution-making, elections, and political conflict settlement; distribution of power and citizenship; and political economy and corruption. Each contribution offers particular insights in one of these arenas. With a huge and varied continent in rapid flux to study, the sheer amount and variety of interesting new research is enormous. It is expected that the discussions contained herein and the various challenges, achievements, and lessons outlined will contribute to research, inform teaching, and lead to a greater understanding of the issues of democratic consolidation and economic development in Africa.
eBook
One nation, multiple identitiesEthnicity, inclusivity, and constitution-making
Africa faces a difficult future unless it acts quickly to consolidate democracy, liberalize economies, invest in people and infrastructure, and ensure the rule of law. Africa houses about half the world’s fragile states, whose governance structures are weak, and faces daunting developmental challenges. Halving severe poverty by 2030, as envisaged in the Sustainable Development Goals, would require annual growth rates of more than 7 percent and more equitable distribution of income. Good governance and efficient regulatory and administrative processes are central to ensuring decent growth and providing jobs, as other regions of the world illustrate. Notably, the challenges to governance in Africa are rooted in the colonial legacy of pluralistic states, characterized by language differences, culture, and religion. Hence, the need to manage diversity and harness it for national development. Also, there is social exclusion of segments of the population of the nation state fueled by income inequality, economic vulnerability, and environmental risks. Therefore, there is urgent need to develop political systems that promote inclusiveness, accountability, and citizens’ empowerment. It means transforming undemocratic colonial societies into sustainable democracies committed to separation of powers, public accountability, and meritocratic appointments across government services. This chapter examines possible ways of achieving these objectives.
Book Chapter
Comparative Constitutionalism and Good Governance in the Commonwealth
The central role that good, effective and capable governance plays in the economic and social development of a country is now widely recognised. Using the Commonwealth countries of eastern and southern Africa, this book analyses some of the key constitutional issues in the process of developing, strengthening and consolidating the capacity of states to ensure the good governance of their peoples. Utilising comparative material, the book seeks to draw lessons, both positive and negative, about the problems of constitutionalism in the region and, in doing so, critically addresses the legal issues involved in seeking to make constitutions 'work' in practice.
eBook
Meeting the Information Challenge
Africa faces serious challenges in the world of globalisation. One of the most serious and basic of these challenges is that of information and communication technologies. Meeting the range of social, economic and political goals in the contemporary world requires the meeting of the information challenge. This volume - primarily the product of a specialist meeting at Cornell University - provides both overview and detail on how this challenge can be and is being met.
eBook