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Liberia's Political Economy

Author : Stephen H. Gobewole
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1457550067
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book Liberia's Political Economy written by Stephen H. Gobewole and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since it was founded for freed blacks in the early 1800s, Liberia has been a country of extremes, whether comparing wealth and poverty; the lifestyles of urban elites and rural tribal communities; or corrupt national government and familial trust. This book uses Liberia’s history as the background and ongoing source of the current political and social situations, as revealed by Afrobarometer data. The study considers the ethnicity, gender, and residential location of Liberian citizens and their attitudes regarding the country’s rule of law, state authority and democratic accountability – it’s government and economic health. After presenting the history and the current data, the author makes recommendations for changing the future of this African nation. If implemented, these changes could have a profound and positive effect on the future of this country that is rated as the third-poorest in the world.

Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa

Author : Robtel Neajai Pailey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108875440
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa written by Robtel Neajai Pailey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on rich oral histories from over two hundred in-depth interviews in West Africa, Europe, and North America, Robtel Neajai Pailey examines socio-economic change in Liberia, Africa's first black republic, through the prism of citizenship. Marking how historical policy changes on citizenship and contemporary public discourse on dual citizenship have impacted development policy and practice, she reveals that as Liberia transformed from a country of immigration to one of emigration, so too did the nature of citizenship, thus influencing claims for and against dual citizenship. In this engaging contribution to scholarly and policy debates about citizenship as a continuum of inclusion and exclusion, and development as a process of both amelioration and degeneration, Pailey develops a new model for conceptualising citizenship within the context of crisis-affected states. In doing so, she offers a postcolonial critique of the neoliberal framing of diasporas and donors as the panacea to post-war reconstruction.

Politics in Liberia

Author : Martin Lowenkopf
Publisher : Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Politics in Liberia written by Martin Lowenkopf and published by Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Civil War and State Formation

Author : Felix Gerdes
Publisher : Campus Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3593398923
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Civil War and State Formation written by Felix Gerdes and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberia was the scene of two devastating civil wars since late 1989 and became widely considered a failed state. By contrast, the country is frequently described as a success story since the international professional Ellen Johnson Sirleaf assumed the presidency following democratic elections in 2005. The book investigates the political economy of civil war and democratic peace and puts the developments into historical perspective. The author argues that the civil wars did not represent the breakdown of the state but exhibited dynamics characteristic of state formation. His analysis of continuity and change in Liberia's political evolution details both political progress and persistent structural deficits of the polity. Book jacket.

Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa

Author : Robtel Neajai Pailey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108836542
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Liberia in the Twenty-first Century

Author : George Klay Kieh, Jr.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781536150346
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Liberia in the Twenty-first Century by : George Klay Kieh, Jr.

Download or read book Liberia in the Twenty-first Century written by George Klay Kieh, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the founding of the Liberian state in 1847, the country has faced several frontier issues, such as ethnic pluralism and inclusion, the elusive quest for democracy, decentralization, and socio-economic development. Cumulatively, the failure by the various state managers to address these and other major challenges occasioned an enduring civil conflict that imploded into mass insurrection on April 14, 1979, a military coup détat on April 12, 1980, and two civil wars from 1989-1997, and 1999-2003, respectively. Significantly, these major conflict events had profound ramifications, including the deaths of thousands of people, massive internal displacement, refugee crises, the destruction of the already underdeveloped physical infrastructure and the productive sectors of the economy, and the collapse of governance. Against this background, this book explores some of these frontier issuesthe travails of the peripheral state, ethnic pluralism and inclusion, the quest for democracy, decentralization and governance, the monocrop economy and its resulting implications for the crises of underdevelopment, public health, security sector reform, and post-conflict reconstructionthat have and continue to face Liberia in the twenty-first century. This book then makes policy-relevant recommendations for addressing these challenges, as the country strives to address its seemingly unending cycle of missed opportunities and false starts.

The Political Economy of Liberia and Public Policy

Author : Isaac Perry
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781727879643
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Liberia and Public Policy written by Isaac Perry and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. African Studies: The Politics, Economics and Policies of Liberia. 2. History of Liberia: Economic and National Developments. 3. History of Liberia: Internal Conflicts, Military Violence and Disintegration.

The War Economy in Liberia

Author : Philippa Atkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780850033663
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book The War Economy in Liberia written by Philippa Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Africa Yearbook Volume 16

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004430016
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Africa Yearbook Volume 16 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa – all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa) focusing on major cross-border developments and sub-regional organizations as well as one article on continental developments and one on African-European relations. While the articles have thorough academic quality, the Yearbook is mainly oriented to the requirements of a large range of target groups: students, politicians, diplomats, administrators, journalists, teachers, practitioners in the field of development aid as well as business people.

A prize essay on political economy as adapted to the republic of Liberia

Author : J. S. Payne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A prize essay on political economy as adapted to the republic of Liberia written by J. S. Payne and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The First Liberian Civil War

Author : George Klay Kieh
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820488394
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book The First Liberian Civil War written by George Klay Kieh and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the dominant view that the first Liberian civil war was caused by ethno-cultural antagonisms between and among the country's various ethnic groups. Alternatively, the book argues that the war was the consequence of the multifaceted crises of underdevelopment - cultural, economic, political, and social - generated by the neo-colonial Liberian State.

State-building Interventions in Post-Conflict Liberia

Author : Susanne Mulbah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351711601
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book State-building Interventions in Post-Conflict Liberia written by Susanne Mulbah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-conflict Liberia has been subjected to extensive international state-building, at some point hosting the largest and one of the longest UN peacekeeping missions in the world, and inflow of aid that exceeds in multiples the GDP. In order to understand the international state-building efforts in Liberia, it is pertinent to reflect them against the extractive and predatory nature of the Liberian republic, and the central role natural resources exploitation and plantations have played in accommodating transnational interest in the country’s abundant natural resources and fertile land. This book focuses on the political economy of Liberian state-building, and in particular the question of the governance of natural resources. By combining a historical perspective and ethnographic knowledge, the author examines a number of interrelated questions: How was access to the state distributed in Liberian state-building? How are those to be governed and their representation included in political economic decision making, and more particularly, in decisions over natural resources governance? This book will be of interest to students and scholars of state-building, international development, African political science and political economy.

Extralegal Groups in Post-conflict Liberia

Author : Christine Cheng
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199673349
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Extralegal Groups in Post-conflict Liberia written by Christine Cheng and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of the Liberian civil war, groups of ex-combatants seized control of natural resource enclaves in the rubber, diamond, and timber sectors. With some of them threatening a return to war, these groups were widely viewed as the most significant threats to Liberia's hard-won peace. Building on fieldwork and socio-historical analysis, this book shows how extralegal groups are driven to provide basic governance goods in their bid to create a stable commercial environment. This is a story about how their livelihood strategies merged with the opportunities of Liberia's post-war political economy. But it is also a context-specific story that is rooted in the country's geography, its history of state-making, and its social and political practices. This volume demonstrates that extralegal groups do not emerge in a vacuum. In areas of limited statehood, where the state is weak and political authority is contested, where rule of law is corrupted and government distrust runs deep, extralegal groups can provide order and dispute resolution, forming the basic kernel of the state. This logic counters the prevailing 'spoiler' narrative, forcing us to reimagine non-state actors and recast their roles as incidental statebuilders in the evolutionary process of state-making. This leads to a broader argument: it is trade, rather than war, that drives contemporary statebuilding. Along the way, this book poses some uncomfortable questions about what it means to be legitimately governed, whether our trust in states is ultimately misplaced, whether entrenched corruption is the most likely post-conflict outcome, and whether our expectations of international peacebuilding and statebuilding are ultimately self-defeating.

Regional Integration in West Africa

Author : Eswar Prasad
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815738544
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Regional Integration in West Africa written by Eswar Prasad and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Assessing the potential benefits and risks of a currency union Leaders of the fifteen-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have set a goal of achieving a monetary and currency union by late 2020. Although some progress has been made toward achieving this ambitious goal, major challenges remain if the region is to realize the necessary macroeconomic convergence and establish the required institutional framework in a relatively short period of time. The proposed union offers many potential benefits, especially for countries with historically high inflation rates and weak central banks. But, as implementation of the euro over the past two decades has shown, folding multiple currencies, representing disparate economies, into a common union comes with significant costs, along with operational challenges and transitional risks. All these potential negatives must be considered carefully by ECOWAS leaders seeking tomeet a self-imposed deadline. This book, by two leading experts on economics and Africa, makes a significant analytical contribution to the debates now under way about how ECOWAS could achieve and manage its currency union, andthe ramifications for the African continent. "

Constitutional Neopatrimonialism in Liberia

Author : Stephen H. Gobewole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781665726290
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Constitutional Neopatrimonialism in Liberia written by Stephen H. Gobewole and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberia is a dysfunctional country as the result of its patronage practices, which include nepotism, bribery, and election fraud. Stephen H. Gobewole, who grew up in Liberia, explains how these corrupt practices have created a dysfunctional institution. He traces the history of the country and answers question such as: - How have corrupt political practices contributed to the country's poor economy? - Why has public corruption been allowed to persist for so long? - What similarities does Liberia share with other sub-Saharan African countries? - How have elections been manipulated throughout the years? Other topics include United States involvement in Liberia, why so many Liberian presidents continue to act unethically, and the country's civil war. The book provides empirical evidence, including statistical figures and charts, to demonstrate that the corrupt system in Liberia has led to abject poverty, lower living standards, national instability, and underdevelopment. Moreover, the author shares public policy proposals that would ease problems, including the effective enforcement of anticorruption regulations.

Background notes, Liberia

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Background notes, Liberia written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia

Author : Christine Cheng
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192555030
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia written by Christine Cheng and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of the Liberian civil war, groups of ex-combatants seized control of natural resource enclaves in the rubber, diamond, and timber sectors. With some of them threatening a return to war, these groups were widely viewed as the most significant threats to Liberia's hard-won peace. Building on fieldwork and socio-historical analysis, this book shows how extralegal groups are driven to provide basic governance goods in their bid to create a stable commercial environment. This is a story about how their livelihood strategies merged with the opportunities of Liberia's post-war political economy. But it is also a context-specific story that is rooted in the country's geography, its history of state-making, and its social and political practices. This volume demonstrates that extralegal groups do not emerge in a vacuum. In areas of limited statehood, where the state is weak and political authority is contested, where rule of law is corrupted and government distrust runs deep, extralegal groups can provide order and dispute resolution, forming the basic kernel of the state. This logic counters the prevailing 'spoiler' narrative, forcing us to reimagine non-state actors and recast their roles as incidental statebuilders in the evolutionary process of state-making. This leads to a broader argument: it is trade, rather than war, that drives contemporary statebuilding. Along the way, this book poses some uncomfortable questions about what it means to be legitimately governed, whether our trust in states is ultimately misplaced, whether entrenched corruption is the most likely post-conflict outcome, and whether our expectations of international peacebuilding and statebuilding are ultimately self-defeating.