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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Political settlements"”.
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The politics of bargaining and negotiations in political conflicts with special reference to political settlements in Southern Africa
… a negotiated settlement. In response to this new political development, the African National Congress (ANC) released its conditions for negotiations, the Harare Declaration, which stipulated the necessary steps to create a climate conducive to negotiations. The central theme in negotiations is the …
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The Invisible Hand or the Handgun: Ride Hailing, Violence, and Political Settlements in the South African Urban Mobility Market
… conflict; and applies the macro-institutional political settlements framework to the meso level of a specific market. As policymakers contend with the spread of ride hailing firms, a broad and empirically based view of how they are organized, governed, and how they function in different …
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Reframing the comparative discourse surrounding Malaysia's New Economic Policy and South Africa's black economic empowerment program through the lens of the political settlements framework
… incorporating the pivotal role that the distinct political settlements of each country had in dictating the content and relative success of these redistributive programs. Comparative Analysis is centred on the formation and economic impact of BEE in the South African mining sector and on the NEP …
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NetOne Cellular Private Limited's underperformance : causes and the way forward
… seeks to explore and prove that the Zimbabwean political settlements, mismanagement of economic rents, as well as the scourge of poor corporate, undercapitalisation, unfavourable sectoral and regulatory dynamics negatively impact on NetOne's performance. Derived from the foregoing the above are …
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Two petro-states diverge: explaining the institutional evolution of Nigeria and Angola
… such as Nigeria and Angola experience different political and economic outcomes over time. This thesis explains these differing outcomes through a theoretical lens derived from the New Institutional Economics and Political Settlements literature. Methodologically, it employs analytic narrative - …
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Nations Within a State and the Emerging Hydrocarbons Industry in Uganda
This research investigates the shifting political settlements between the Ugandan state and the Bunyoro and Buganda kingdoms after the discovery of oil between 2007 and 2018. It seeks to answer the following questions using a historically, theoretically, and empirically grounded investigation: What …
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‘The Political Economy of Non-Recurrence: Navigating National Healing, Institutional Reform & Militarisation in Zimbabwe'
… civil-military relations, as well as the political settlements literature as analytical frameworks. Essentially, the study poses two key questions: How does studying transitional justice and elite culture help pre-plan for strategies to professionalise the military and reallocate …
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Swords into Ploughshares: Agricultural Recovery and Postwar Institutional Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
… may indeed have some curative effects. I argue political settlements in the aftermath of civil wars can shape postwar economic outcomes by transforming institutions critical to agricultural productivity. The structure of the state postwar can shape land tenure security, local government …
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How Civil Wars End: The Influence of Rebel Groups
… to conflict, such as poverty, ethnic cleavages, political instability, and state weakness. Understanding why some civil conflicts terminate through peace agreements and military victories while others often fail to end decisively requires attention to strategic interactions between rebels and …
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How Civil Wars End: The Influence of Rebel Groups
… to conflict, such as poverty, ethnic cleavages, political instability, and state weakness. Understanding why some civil conflicts terminate through peace agreements and military victories while others often fail to end decisively requires attention to strategic interactions between rebels and …
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An Exploration for a Holistic Approach to Upgrading Informal Settlements as an Alternative to Settlement Elimination: A case study on Okapale informal settlement, Windhoek
In 2019, Namibia's president declared informal settlements in Windhoek as a “Humanitarian crisis”, which he further declared to eradicate by 2025. The study highlighted a gap in the understanding of such a political statement's implications on the attitudes and efforts towards informal settlements …
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The politics of social protection in Bangladesh: The making of the National Social Security Strategy
… how the wide-ranging, historically-entrenched political contestations in the country underpin the seemingly apolitical decisions in the NSSS. It is based on over sixty in depth qualitative interviews with key informants, weeks of participant observation in meetings and organisations, as well as …