Institutions: an introduction / Francis Wiafe-Amoako --. - Democracide: who killed democracy in Africa? : clues of the past, concerns of the future / Ali A. Mazrui --. - Political ideologies and democratic consolidation in Africa / Francis Wiafe-Amoako --. - Gender roles in Africa : traditional...

This book argues that the capacity of a country to develop, and the levels of economic and social development achieved, depend more on the institutional parameters within which the development policies are implemented than on the policies themselves. It contends that forces of globalisation...

Gender inequality and the lack of gender development are major problems in developing countries. Neoclassical economics has generally argued that economic development will greatly enhance gender development. However, more recent work has emphasized the role of institutions. In this paper, a...