State fragility and resilience in sub-Saharan Africa indicators and interventions

"This book focuses on the indicators of fragility and the resilience of state-led interventions to address them in sub-Saharan Africa. It analyses the 'figure' of fragile states as a unit of analysis and situates the study of fragility, governance and political adaptation within conte...

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Hauptverfasser: Lahai, John Idriss (VerfasserIn), Koomson, Isaac (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge, 2020
Schriftenreihe:Routledge contemporary Africa series
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction
  • Part one. Statehood and conflicts : contextual indicators and interventions
  • Conceptualising fragility and resilience in the political economy of sub-Saharan Africa
  • Frames of impact : the contexts and correlates of armed conflicts on state fragility
  • Behavioural language frames conflict de-escalation and battle-related deaths across zones of conflict
  • Part two. Child labor : thematic indicators and interventions
  • Child labor, poverty and fragility
  • Regional and country-level interventions to end child labor
  • Part three. Food (in)security : contextual indicators and interventions
  • The ebola pandemic and household food insecurity
  • Institutional interventions in the advancement of food security and health
  • Conclusion