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Social Contracts for Development
Bargaining, Contention, and Social Inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
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eBook - ePub
Social Contracts for Development
Bargaining, Contention, and Social Inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
About this book
Sub-Saharan Africa has achieved significant gains in reducing the levels of extreme poverty in recent decades. Yet, the region continues to experience challenges across the development indicators, including energy access, literacy, delivery of services and goods, and jobs skills, as well as low levels of foreign direct investment. Exacerbating the difficulties faced by many countries are the sequelae of conflict, such as internal displacement and refugee migration. Social Contracts for Development: Bargaining, Contention, and Social Inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa builds on recent attention to the real-life social and political economy factors that underlie the power dynamic and determine the selection and implementation of policies. Applying a social contract approach to development policy, the authors provide a framework and proposals on how to measure such a framework to strengthen policy and operational engagements in the region. The key message is that Africa's progress toward shared prosperity requires looking beyond technical policies to understand how the power dynamics and citizen-state relations shape the menu of implementable reforms. A social contract lens can help diagnose constraints, explain outbreaks of unrest, and identify opportunities for improving outcomes.
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Development EconomicsIndex
EconomicsTable of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Africa Development Forum Series
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Titles in the Africa Development Forum Series
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Abbreviations
- Overview
- 1 Social Contracts in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Research Program
- 2 Tracing Social Contract Theory
- 3 Social Contracts in Africa: A Conceptual and Empirical Framework
- 4 Application: Country Case Studies
- 5 Application: Sectoral and Thematic Spotlights
- 6 Development through a Social Contract Lens
- ECO-AUDIT: Environmental Benefits Statement
- Back Cover
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Yes, you can access Social Contracts for Development by Mathieu Cloutier,Bernard Harborne,Deborah Isser,Indhira Santos,Michael Watts in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Economics & Development Economics. We have over 1.5 million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.