Social Contracts for Development: Bargaining, Contention, and Social Inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa (Africa Development Forum)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2021

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781464816697

Related ISBNs:

9781464816628

Publisher:

World Bank Publications

Date of Addition:

07/14/25

Copyrighted By:

Mathieu Cloutier, Bernard Harborne, Deborah Isser, Indhira Santos, and Michael Watts

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No

Language:

English

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No

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Nonfiction, Business and Finance

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