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Book Synopsis Rent-Seeking, Institutions and Reforms in Africa by : Pius Fischer
Download or read book Rent-Seeking, Institutions and Reforms in Africa written by Pius Fischer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-03 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume identifies rent-seeking behavior as a primary cause of poor economic performance in many places, particulary Africa. The book presents a detailed empirical study of rent-seeking within the civil service, parastatal sector, and business community in Tanzania. It quantifies and evaluates the rent-seeking behavior of more than 300 parastatal companies and the resulting impact on society. The conclusions on reform strategies are applicable to counties within and outside Africa.
Book Synopsis Rent-seeking, Institutions and Reforms in Africa by : Pius Fischer (Wirtschaftswissenschaftler.)
Download or read book Rent-seeking, Institutions and Reforms in Africa written by Pius Fischer (Wirtschaftswissenschaftler.) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Institutions and Development in Africa by : John Mukum Mbaku
Download or read book Institutions and Development in Africa written by John Mukum Mbaku and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant contribution to the debate on poverty alleviation in Africa, Professor Mbaku offers practical policies for economic growth. He argues that the most important contributor to poverty and deprivation in Africa is the absense of institutional structures that enhance indigenous entrepreneurship and wealth creation. He explains that these are so vital that living standards will continue to deteriorate unless these building blocks are put in place.
Book Synopsis The Challenges of Economic and Institutional Reforms in Africa by : George Saitoti
Download or read book The Challenges of Economic and Institutional Reforms in Africa written by George Saitoti and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an analysis of strategies for poverty alleviation, sustainable development and peaceful coexistence. Emphasizes the importance of institutions, as well as sound public policies to sustainable economic growth in Africa. Highlights the significance of institutional reforms as part of an effective poverty alleviation programme and identifies key challenges facing Africa such as HIV/AIDS and iproving competitiveness.
Book Synopsis Rent-seeking And Economic Growth In Africa by : Mark Gallagher
Download or read book Rent-seeking And Economic Growth In Africa written by Mark Gallagher and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1991-05-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the economic experience of 22 African countries. The author argues that rent-seeking (payment made to a resource beyond what is necessary to get the resource to perform its function) and policies that encourage rent-seeking have played a major role in hindering economic growth.
Book Synopsis Institutions and Reform in Africa by : John Mukum Mbaku
Download or read book Institutions and Reform in Africa written by John Mukum Mbaku and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1997-07-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses the public choice theory to explain why Africa failed in its post-independence development effort and to examine institutional reform.
Book Synopsis Reforming Africa's Institutions by : Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa
Download or read book Reforming Africa's Institutions written by Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is not a single African country that did not attempt public sector reforms in the 1990s. Governments no longer see themselves as sole suppliers of social services, frequently opting for partnerships with the private sector. Efficiency and choice have entered the language of the planning and implementation units of Africa's line ministries, while privatization is no longer the controversial subject it was a decade ago. There have also been moves towards more open and democratic governments. Reforming Africa's Institutions looks at the extent to which reforms undertaken in Sub-Saharan Africa in recent years have enhanced institutional capacities across the breadth of government. To what extent have reforms been internalized and defended by governments? The authors also look specifically at the impact of public sector reforms on these economies and pose the question whether 'ownership can be attained when countries continue to be heavily dependent on external support. The volume is presented in three parts. The first focuses on the issue of reform ownership; on the issues of governance, the political economy of reform ownership, and the contradictions inherent in using aid as an instrument for enhancing domestic reform ownership. Part two examines the nature of incentives in the African civil service and the reforms undertaken in recent years to raise public sector efficiency in Africa. The third part discusses issues related to institutional capabilities in Africa and how they have been affected by the reforms undertaken in the 1990s, including privatization and movement towards political pluralism.
Book Synopsis High-Level Rent-Seeking and Corruption in African Regimes: Theory and Cases by : Jacqueline Coolidge
Download or read book High-Level Rent-Seeking and Corruption in African Regimes: Theory and Cases written by Jacqueline Coolidge and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June 1997 For international aid and lending institutions: Encourage liberalization, deregulation, and civil service reform where rulers are autocratic but credibly committed to growth and efficiency. Be cautious about financing half-hearted reform in systems ruled by kleptocrats. In particular, do not expect tax, customs, and procurement reform to be implemented as designed in systems where top rulers and their allies routinely pocket state resources. One explanation for Africa's failure to develop is the weakness of its public institutions. Coolidge and Rose-Ackerman consider one aspect of that weakness: rent-seeking and corruption at the top of government. Under the conditions of their model, an autocrat who seeks to maximize personal financial return favors an inefficiently large public sector and distorts other public sector priorities more than does an autocrat who seeks to maximize national income. However, if civil servants and public officials are also venal, the ruler will not favor so large a government. To show how African regimes operate, Coolidge and Rose-Ackerman present four cases illustrating issues raised by their theoretical model. Among their observations about the relationship between the motivations of top officials and policies to control corruption and other types of rent-seeking are these: * A kleptocrat whose decision variable is the level of government intervention in the economy will select an excessive level of intervention, in which national income is less than optimal. * Like all monopolists, the kleptocrat seeks productive efficiency except where inefficiency creates extra rents. * Facing a kleptocrat, citizens prefer a smaller than optimal-sized government but get one that is too big. * A kleptocrat may need to permit lower-level officials to share in corrupt gains thus introducing additional costs. He or she will then favor a smaller government than if subordinates could be perfectly controlled. * Dropping the assumption of a single dimension of government intervention, the kleptocrat will favor a different mixture of tax, spending, and regulatory programs than will a benevolent autocrat. * Dropping the assumption that rulers are writing on a clean slate, decisions to privatize or nationalize firms can differ across autocratic regimes. In particular, although kleptocrats will often be reluctant to privatize, they may in some cases support privatizations that a benevolent ruler would oppose. * Investment in countries with kleptocratic rules may have an overly short-run orientation. * When rent-seeking at top levels is pervasive, both natural resources and foreign aid under state control may hamper, not encourage, growth. This paper - a product of the Private Sector Development Department, the Visiting Research Fellows Program, and the Foreign Investment Advisory Service - is part of a larger effort in the Bank to promote institutional reforms necessary for combating corruption and promoting investment and private sector led growth.
Book Synopsis Corruption and the Crisis of Institutional Reforms in Africa by : John Mukum Mbaku
Download or read book Corruption and the Crisis of Institutional Reforms in Africa written by John Mukum Mbaku and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study contains a mixture of analytical ideas and views, and recommends reconstruction of the neo-colonial state as an effective way to deal with this pervasive institution. It examines corruption from a public choice perspective, and part of the book deals specifically with Nigeria.
Book Synopsis Providing a Foundation for Wealth Creation and Development in Africa by : John Mukum Mbaku
Download or read book Providing a Foundation for Wealth Creation and Development in Africa written by John Mukum Mbaku and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the struggle in Africa to alleviate and eventually eradicate poverty. It is argued that the most effective way for African countries to deal with poverty is to create wealth. Unfortunately, these countries have not been able to create the wealth that they need to confront poverty. This is due primarily to the fact that since independence, many African countries have not been able to undertake democratic institutional reforms to create and adopt institutional arrangements that guarantee and sustain the rule of law. Within legal systems in which the rule of law is accepted and respected, civil servants and political elites are adequately constrained and hence, cannot easily engage in growth-inhibiting behaviors such as corruption and rent seeking. In addition, these types of institutions enhance peaceful coexistence and provide an enabling environment for wealth creation. So they can effectively deal with poverty and improve the people's living conditions, African countries must engage in reforms to provide themselves with institutional arrangements that guarantee the rule of law.
Book Synopsis High-level Rent Seeking and Corruption in African Regimes by : Jacqueline G. Coolidge
Download or read book High-level Rent Seeking and Corruption in African Regimes written by Jacqueline G. Coolidge and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Governance and the Economy in Africa by :
Download or read book Governance and the Economy in Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Corruption, Good Governance, and the African State by : Ganahl, Joseph Patrick
Download or read book Corruption, Good Governance, and the African State written by Ganahl, Joseph Patrick and published by Universitätsverlag Potsdam. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African states are often called corrupt, indicating that the political system in Africa differs from the one prevalent in economically advanced democracies. This, however, does not give us any insight into what makes corruption the dominant norm of African statehood. Thus we must turn to the overly neglected theoretical work on the political economy of Africa in order to determine how the poverty of governance in Africa is firmly anchored both in Africa’s domestic socioeconomic reality, as well as in the region’s role in the international economic order. Instead of focusing on increased monitoring, enforcement and formal democratic procedures, this book combines economic analysis with political theory in order to arrive at a better understanding of the political-economic roots of corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Book Synopsis The Practice of Industrial Policy by : John Page
Download or read book The Practice of Industrial Policy written by John Page and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how African policy makers might develop better coordination between the public and private sectors to identify the constraints to faster structural transformation, and to design, implement, and monitor policies to remove them.
Book Synopsis Political Liberalization and Economic Policy Reform in Africa by : Nicolas Van de Walle
Download or read book Political Liberalization and Economic Policy Reform in Africa written by Nicolas Van de Walle and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Elusive Prince of Denmark by : Adebayo O. Olukoshi
Download or read book The Elusive Prince of Denmark written by Adebayo O. Olukoshi and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1998 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background context to the governance debate
Book Synopsis Companion to the Political Economy of Rent Seeking by : R. D. Congleton
Download or read book Companion to the Political Economy of Rent Seeking written by R. D. Congleton and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quest for benefit from existing wealth or by seeking privileged benefit through influence over policy is known as rent seeking. Much rent seeking activity involves government and political decisions and is therefore in the domain of political econo
