Although women’s critical roles in rural community development in Africa is undisputed, its recent discursive appeal in development policy raises questions regarding the ways in which the women living in rural contexts have been mis/understood, mis/appropriated and marginalized. Arguing that two narratives emerge: rural women as victims and rural women as agents of change, this chapter examines the ways in which African women’s experience in rural community development has been framed to ...
Abstract: Conventional approaches to water management have traditionally treated social systems and ecosystems as distinct, and to a large degree have failed to achieve outcomes that are simultanously efficient, equitable, and sustainable. Perhaps nowhere has the need to reform the way water is managed and even conceived been more apparent than in South Africa in the last decade, where a tremendous opportunity for change has been created in the form of the National Water Act of 1998. In this...
ABSTRACT Private investment, employment and social welfare are key socio-economic development policy variables of many a developing nation. Over the two decades (1990-2009) that this study covered, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has experienced interesting dynamics in private investment, employment and social welfare. Key among them is a dwindling public sector investment and a marginal increase in private investment coupled with an increase in employment which is mostly driven by a surge in female...
ABSTRACT An evaluation of the budgetary process in Ghana depicts that annual expenditure proposals are continuously anchored on projected revenue. This means that the accuracy of revenue projection is a necessary condition for devising a suitable framework for fiscal deficit management in Ghana. This study explores the impact of tax policy measures on economic growth using time series data for the period 1970 2013 to devise a reasonably accurate estimation of Ghana‟s sustainable revenue p...
Abstract The student intends to clarify or rather look deeper into social media jokes and the usage of social media as a political battlefield in Zimbabwe and Africa as a whole. The study contributes significantly to the literature on the use of social media jokes in the lobbying of “counter hegemonic public spheres” or “Subaltern public spheres” Fraser (1992) in a bid to contribute to the practice of democracy in Zimbabwe. Unlike the western literature, this study serves to contribut...
ABSTRACT Study used multivariate vector autoregressive model (VAR) to investigate the impact of foreign Direct investment (FDI) on economic growth, and assess the determinants of FDI inflows in Uganda for the periods between 1986 and 2016. Interpretations of results are based on Granger causality and innovation accounting (variance decomposition and impulse response functions). The study finds that international capital flows are of great importance in stimulating economic growth in Uganda. R...
Abstract Infant mortality in International respective. The table below provides infant mortality rate for the world, for development and developing countries and by continent with some selected countries that high light the range of levels; the world's infant mortality rate has never been lower; however' differences across the world are substantial. Africa's rate (88) is ten times higher than average rate (8) for the developed countries. Within Africa the highest level of infant mortality rat...
ABSTRACT The aim of the research was to assess the effects of land reform on human security in SubSahara Africa. The survey was guided by research objectives which were firstly, to explain the concept of land reform in Sub-Sahara Africa. Secondly, to assess the effects of land reform on human security in Sub-Sahara Africa. Thirdly, to examine the dynamics surrounding land reform on human security in Sub-Sahara Africa. Lastly, to proffer scholarly recommendations on workable plan of land refo...
ABSTRACT The consequences of population growth on the economic development of less developed countries are not the same because the condition prevailing in these countries are quite different from those of developed economy. Therefore the body of literature on population growth in Nigeria has always emphasized either the negative or the positive effect. Fundamentally, growth is an indispensible requisite for the development that is why Nigeria‟s economic growth had continue to dominate t...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the impact of the misery index on economic growth of Nigeria for the time period 1980-2017. Apart from Yadollah and Rouhollah which studied the impact of economic growth and good governance on the misery index in Iran, other studies have concentrated on the relationship of the index with crime, lottery games, inequality and human capital outflows. This research work therefore departs from the views of other researcher and studied the impact of the misery index...
The research observes that although rising government expenditure has relatively significant on economic growth. It has not translated to meaningful development as Nigeria still ranks among world's poorest counties. In an attempt to investigate the impact of government expenditure on economic growth, we adopted a dis-aggregated analysis using Ordinary Least Square (OLS) econometric methodology. The regression result shows that recurrent government expenditure, and capital government expendit...
ABSTRACT The modern devolution development across the globe has been in part driven by assertions of a supposed ‘economic dividend’ linked with the devolved expenditure. There is however, little empirical evidence to validate these assertions in Kenya. Most empirical studies across different countries have used different methods of analysis, different time periods and diverse techniques of measuring variable which have generated mixed conclusions and others are inconclusive. More so, in ...
e modern devolution development across the globe has been in part driven by assertions of a supposed ‘economic dividend’ linked with the devolved expenditure. There is however, little empirical evidence to validate these assertions in Kenya. Most empirical studies across different countries have used different methods of analysis, different time periods and diverse techniques of measuring variable which have generated mixed conclusions and others are inconclusive. More so, in Kenya these ...
ABSTRACT This work explores what the African Union (AU) in its African Economic Community objectives can learn from the way to the European Union (EU) Single Market. The AU through its 1991 Abuja Treaty set an objective of having an African Economic Community in Six stages, from Free Trade Area (FTA) in the various Regional Economic Communities (RECs), to a Continental Single Market and a Monetary and Economic Union. Since the AU’s style of achieving integration is through the building bloc...
Abstract The purpose of this research was to investigate the implications of the Bretton Woods Institutions in Southern African economies in the twenty first century using Zimbabwe as a case study.Limited information has been availed regarding the implications of the IMF and WB operations in Zimbabwe and it is the role of this research to fill the void by analyzing various researches and spell it out clearly.The WB and IMF are the two most powerful institutions in global trade.The twenty firs...