Contemporary Africa is still struggling with the legacies of slavery, apartheid, colonialism and the deleterious impact of Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) and now globalisation. Some parts of postcolonial Africa have attempted to set up ministries of economic development. Others have...

Health expenditure consists of all expenditures or costs for medical care, prevention, promotion, rehabilitation, community health activities, health administration and regulation and capital formation with the predominant objective of improving health in a country or region. According to WHO...

The Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (SRISE) (2009) proposes a three-pronged definition of fragile states as the one that lacks authority (authority failure), fail to provide services (service entitlement failure) or lack legitimacy (legitimacy failure). While with...