Institutions, governance and incentives in common property regimes for African rangelands

The Dynamics of Livestock and Rangelands under Common Property Regimes

Key words: African telecommunications, governance and incentives, institutional design Institutions and Telecommunications Performance in Africa: Stability, Governance and Incentives

Africa’s telecommunications industry has been undergoing major reforms since the 1980s, especially in the past few years. In accordance with recommendations of the World Bank and the World Trade Organization (WTO), many countries are in the process of instituting sector reforms. These include the privatization of basic telecommunications service, the creation of separate (and ideally) autonomou...

Relevance of African Traditional Institutions of Governance

Institutions and Corporate Governance

15 From its inception, the institutional tradition of studying organizations has been informed by themes of control and coordination – themes that fall within the domain of corporate governance, broadly defined as being concerned with the implicit and explicit relationships between the corporation and its constituents, as well as the relationships between these constituent groups 1999). With it...

4 Managing Mobility in African Rangelands

In recent years, a clearer understanding of the complexities of pastoral development has been arising on the basis of work done by African and international researchers and development practitioners. They are refuting the causality of notions normally attributed to pastoralism, such as land mismanagement and degradation. They are also showing how extensive pastoral production has been underesti...