Spotlights
- Democratising Local Government: The South African Experiment
- Beyond impunity: New directions for governance in Malawi
- Just transitions: Explorations of sustainability in an unfair world
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Democratising Local Government: The South African Experiment
SpotlightRead MoreLocal government is at the forefront of development. In South Africa the ambitious policy objectives of post-apartheid reconstruction and development hinge on the successful creation of a democratic tier of government close to the people. An entirely new system of ‘developmental local government’ has thus been introduced.
As is the case in many developing countries, the responsibilities of municipalities in South Africa have been extended dramatically, often without adequate resources. Managing municipalities for development therefore requires political will and strategic...
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Beyond impunity: New directions for governance in Malawi
SpotlightRead More"This comprehensive, compelling, accessible and timely volume should be compulsory reading to academics, policy makers, social activists, and the general public in Malawi and elsewhere on the continent. It is the best book I have read recently on the country’s complex, contradictory, messy, and disappointing political and socioeconomic dispensation since the dawn of the era of multiparty democracy in 1994. It mirrors the trajectories, and provides critical insights and invaluable lessons on, Africa’s enduring struggles to construct democratic developmental states as envisaged by the late...
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Just transitions: Explorations of sustainability in an unfair world
SpotlightRead MoreCurrent economic growth strategies around the world are rapidly depleting natural resources and eco-systems. Just Transitions provides an overview of these challenges from a Global South perspective. How do developing countries eradicate poverty via economic development, while encountering the consequences of global warming and dwindling supplies of clean water, productive soils, cheap oil, minerals and other resources? How do they address widening inequalities, as well as the need to rebuild ecosystem services and natural resources?
This book considers a just transition,...
