The role of institutions in the development process of African countries

Kumssa, Asfaw; Mbeche, Isaac M.

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“…Research focused on the relationship between rule of law and economic development performed by the World Bank and the US's CIA found that there is a proportional increase in rule of law and social wealth. found that the likelihood of a high rule of law country enjoying higher income is 29/34 (85.29%), a finding that coincides with other scholarly views (Bashir, 2002;Kumssa & Mbeche, 2004;Krever, 2011;Osman, Alexiou, & Tsaliki, 2011) (one exceptional case was (Osman et al, 2011)). As concluded by The Economist (2008), the general view of scholarship is that "rule of law has become the motherhood and apple pie of development economics."…”

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Is There a Positive Relationship between Law and Economic Growth? A Paradox in China

Li¹,

Li²

2013

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Traditional theorists concur that good legal system has been linked with well-defined property rights, reduction in transactions costs, increase in investments, and economic growth. Nevertheless, China experienced a strong economic growth in spite of a poor legal system. To explore the reasons behind, this research paper reviews the literature about the relationship between law and economic growth from global perspective. After that, this paper tries to locate the reasons on why the formal rules and regulations may not have strong correlation with China’s growth. The research concludes that while many people label Guanxi as something negative, Guanxi is an informal system of legal rules from a Western perspective, or de facto, China’s style of legal enforcement. Nevertheless, as the Chinese economy grows, transaction costs may become too high if we rely on guanxi and good legal system is needed to ensure a sustainable economic growth

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Section: A Scholar's View Of the Relationship Between Rule Of Law Andsupporting

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Is There a Positive Relationship between Law and Economic Growth? A Paradox in China

Li¹,

Li²

2013

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“…It has been found that communities with high levels and diverse supply of social Maina et al 155 capital are better able to deal with poverty, vulnerability, disputes and also to take advantage of new opportunities (Woolcock and Narayan, 2000). Social cohesion ensures that the community will pull together to initiate mechanisms for self support and in provision of necessary resources and services (Kummssa and Mbeche, 2004;Amudavi, 2005). Such cohesion is favourable to peaceful co-existence.…”

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Adoption of improved agricultural technologies among smallholder farm households in Nakuru District, Kenya

Maina¹

2012

J. Agric. Ext. Rural Dev.

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Households are institutions that nurture, develop and sustain capabilities, material and social resources and activities necessary for their members to sustain livelihoods. This is possible through socialisation, communication, diffusion and adoption of improved technologies. In developing countries like Kenya, adoption of improved agricultural technologies is critical in facilitating households' productive and consumptive capabilities and functions for better livelihoods. Yet, the adoption of such technologies remains low. Households are made up of male and female members whose roles, responsibilities, rights and entitlements often differ. Therefore, there is need to understand how the conditions supporting the adoption process vary across male and female farmers and within households. This paper adopts the livelihood systems framework in analysing the influence of socioeconomic characteristics that influence men and women to adopt improved agricultural technologies. The field survey involved individual interviews with 190 randomly selected rural households from Nakuru District, Kenya. Data analysis procedures included descriptive statistics, factor analysis and a binary logistic regression model. Results indicate that men are more likely than women to adopt improved technologies while the propensity to adopt increases with increasing distance to market. Adoption is supported by social inclusion and peace and is more likely to occur among poorer, younger farmers, without skills for off-farm employment. Given that a wide range of male and female farmers' socioeconomic characteristics influence adoption, careful analysis should always precede all efforts aimed at encouraging adoption of new and improved agricultural technologies.

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“…They have become structurally weak; they are left with authoritarian development regimes with only partially modernized economic structures and dysfunctional political regulation leading to conflicts (Köhler 2018). According to Kumssa and Mbeche (2004), institutions in Africa have played a weaker role "because of poor enforcement of the rule of law, corruption, mismanagement, the absence of strong civil society and political interference" (Mbeche 2004, 840).…”

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Regulatory Paradigm Shift for Social Peace and Justice

Sylva

2020

Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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Conflict-free, secure, strong institutions and fair access to justice are among the main targets of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16. The aim is to have effective, accountable, and transparent institutions for social peace at each possible level. Social peace, social life exclusive of internal conflict, is an objective of social politics, which is offering peaceful solutions to the disputes and conflicts among national and international sectors of society (Kaynak 2014). Justice is related to the quality of being just, impartial, or fair in administration: unbiassed amendment of conflicting claims and allocation of merited rewards or punishments (Merriam-Webster 2018). A set of simple interconnected principles representing a "weak paradigm" based on the survival of all are focused on nonviolent and nondestructive means to resolve conflicts (Sun 2005) backed by strong institutions to serve the communities.

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The role of institutions in the development process of African countries

Cited by 24 publications

References 9 publications

Is There a Positive Relationship between Law and Economic Growth? A Paradox in China

Is There a Positive Relationship between Law and Economic Growth? A Paradox in China

Adoption of improved agricultural technologies among smallholder farm households in Nakuru District, Kenya

Regulatory Paradigm Shift for Social Peace and Justice

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