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This chapter addresses the issue of social protection and welfare in Africa. Africa is a highly diversified continent … characterized by different socio-economic performances. It comprises the more developed countries of North Africa, as well as the … less developed sub-region of Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite the existence of several problems and challenges, this part of the …
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. Efficiency and choice have entered the language of the planning and implementation units of Africa's line ministries, while … democratic governments.Reforming Africa's Institutions looks at the extent to which reforms undertaken in Sub-Saharan Africa in …
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The last twenty years has seen an extensive and exhausting debate on how to improve the institutions of African states. But progress has been patchy at best. Many of the problems arise from a ‘partial-reform equilibrium’; initial reforms are undertaken, but then strong resistance is...
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The main background and rationale of this research paper is that while donors' scaled-up engagements in Fragility and Conflict-affected States (FCS) during the last decades were a resounding success in terms of official development resources devoted to FCS, the value for money compared to the...
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We focus on an issue that appears particularly relevant for fragile states and which has received little attention: social institutions related to gender inequality, defined as societal practices and legal norms that frame gender roles and the distribution of power between men and women in the...
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