In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and future pandemics, this chapter mounts a fiscal responsibility framework to enable developing countries, Namibia in particular, to strike the delicate balance between easing short-term liquidity crises and preserving their country’s long-term...

In the past few years, a number of stakeholders have questioned the mandate of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), the country's central bank. Most notably, the Public Protector, some members of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters...

Since 2000, the Zimbabwean government has expropriated a string of white-owned commercial lands. In March 2008, in a consolidated case (Mike Campbell (Pvt) Ltd and Others v. Zimbabwe), 79 applicants filed an application with the Southern African Development Community Tribunal (SADC Tribunal) to...

The current state of scientific knowledge on resource-for-infrastructure (R4I) contracting is unclear and based on inadequate empirical grounds. As a result, it is not easy to tell a R4I contract apart from other forms of international business transactions, let alone describe it in a...

With a critical brush, this study depicts the history, the legal basis, the financial aspects and more generally the complicated process of decentralization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), from the colonial days (1908-1960) to the provincial elections held in December 2018. A...

Tinashe Kondo’s book, Law and investment in Africa, narrates the efforts of a country to regain the trust [and the love] of foreign investors after several decades of argument and hostility. Encapsulated in the 'Zimbabwe is open for business' slogan, these efforts show 'how a country can move...

This chapter restates the law that shapes maritime affairs in Namibia, focusing on its linkages to international law. Namibia has a long coastline, measuring 1,572 kilometres along the Atlantic Ocean. As a result of the Benguela Current wind-driven upwelling system, the country boasts one of the...

When the war ended in 2002, the Angolan government approached traditional donors, including the International Monetary Fund and the Paris Club, for loans to fund its post-conflict reconstruction but they were not forthcoming. China offered a colossal 2 billion US dollars line of credit to Angola...