An elite derives its status from its relationship to property, whether physical or human capital. While stable property rights are necessary for everyday business, unstable property rights that result in major institutional changes (such as land reform) may have a positive impact on economic...

An elite derives its status from its relationship to property, whether physical or human capital. While stable property rights are necessary for everyday business, unstable property rights that result in major institutional changes (such as land reform) may have a positive impact on economic...

Countries need capacity for a variety of reasons, including sustaining economic growth, generating jobs, reducing poverty, effectively managing development programmes, and transforming societies and economies. A lot of effort has been expended to develop capacity in Africa with mixed results....

This paper examines how to evaluate corruption based on the socio-economic development leakage that any country can experience in different historical periods. It is based on a new indicator entitled ”The Massive Socio-Economic Development Leakage from Corruption Index (∂-n-Index).” This...

While initially heralded as the magic bullet for development, NGOs have come under increasing criticism for their failure to deliver development as promised. Despite the plethora of new critiques, little systematic work has theorized how NGOs actually operate within the least developed countries...

In the late 1990s, as economists looked back the development period in Africa since 1970s, they put forward the notion “African growth tragedy” , meaning that Africa's poor growth and resulting low income is associated with low schooling, political instability, underdeveloped financial...

The world temperature will increase at the end of the present century by about 6 °C or more. It is expected that the ice on the Antarctic continent melts within the next generations as well as the ice of Greenland. As a consequence the ocean level may raise up to even 60 meters, not only 2...

The development of the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission models in the multdimensional peacekeeping forces is increasing with the demanding of the complexity of forces capability. This condition makes some linear aspects with the mission objectives which are also more diverse. In conflict...

In June 2005, the major industrialized nations of the world, the G-8, agreed on a plan to relieve the debt of the worlds poorest and most indebted nations. Many of the nations which qualified for debt relief under this initiative were in Africa. The plan, supported by the World Bank,...

This paper examines the impact of contemporary African American mayors on the economic condition of African Americans. This study is an attempt to better understand the extent to which African American mayors have improved the performance of key economic indicators specific to African Americans....