Policing reforms and economic development in African states. Understanding the linkages: empowering change

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The notion that economic development in African states requires minimal levels of security has become widely accepted in the international development community. Reforming non-functioning policing systems is an important step toward achieving security, yet the experience of changing policing systems in Africa is disappointing. Only South Africa and a few post-conflict states (Sierra Leone, Liberia) have achieved some measure of success. Many of the political, social, and economic contextual conditions that would support reforms of policing are absent. Recommendations on what policies could work, drawn from the general policing reform literature and African case studies, are suggested.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-92-9230-590-1
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2013/013

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Economic Impacts of Globalization: Economic Development ; Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law ; International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations ; Economywide Country Studies: Africa
• Thema: Africa ; policing ; economic development ; policing reforms ; Entwicklung ; Politische Reform ; Afrika

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Marenin, Otwin
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2013

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/80904
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ