This book applies the conceptual framework of Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis and Barry R. Weingast's Violence and Social Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2009) to nine developing countries. The cases show how political control of economic privileges is used to limit violence and...

1. The marginalisation and impoverishment of Africa : reversing the causes and consequences of poverty in Africa / Munyaradzi Mawere -- 2. Gods of development or perpetuators of poverty and underdevelopment in the 'developing' world? rethinking the role of the World Bank and IMF on Africa's...

Introduction / Toyin Falola and Jessica Achberger. - Part 1. Historical roots of African underdevelopment. - Africa and the making of the global environmental narrative: challenges and opportunities for the continent's development initiatives / Martin S. Shanguhyia. - Indigenization versus...