scholarly journals The Subsidiarity Arrangement of Global Governance and Sustainable Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-64
Author(s):  
Grace Li
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Sub Saharan

In the post-Cold War realm of international relations, the United Nations is "overheating," overburdened by the demands of their expanded operations, in part due to its massive expansion of membership since conception, which has grown to include several developing nations. Specifically, in the realm of international sustainable development, this expansion has drastically increased the scope of UN objectives responsibilities. What we learned from the period of the 1990s, is that the “Washington Consensus” series of macroeconomic policy recommendations anchored around the mantra “stabilize, privatize, and liberalize,” which had failed to adequately instill sustainable long-term growth in Sub-Saharan African, is that this narrow field of market-oriented reforms could not uniformly solve issues of development across the world. Attempts to copy-paste policy reforms from one country often failed, and precisely this observation entails the application of subsidiarity. This paper employs a qualitative methodology to investigate the potential role of a subsidiarity arrangement in easing the burden on the UN system, through a global division of labour across local, regional, and international levels of governance, in studying sustainable development and poverty eradication efforts in sub-Saharan Africa.   

scholarly journals Relationship Dynamics of Sustainable Development Goals on Poverty and Inequality in sub-Saharan Africa: Beyond the Covid-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol Volume II (December 2021) ◽  
pp. 30-45
Author(s):  
Ajeigbe Omowumi Monisola
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Data Bank ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Relationship Dynamics ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Sub Saharan

The study examined the relationship dynamics of sustainable development goals on poverty and inequality in sub-Saharan Africa: beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Monthly data were sourced from World Bank Sustainable Development Goals Data Bank, Africa SDG index from 2015 (m01) to 2020 (m12). Both static and dynamic panel analysis techniques were employed in estimating the interrelationship among the seventeen SDGs and cases of COVID-19. The study presents mixed results as it revealed the SDGs having both and either positive or negative short run or long run relationship with poverty, inequality and COVID-19. By implication, some SDGs presents a short-term relationship while some SDGs presents a long-term relationship. In another scenario, some SDGs presents both short term and long-term relationship towards the achievement of No poverty and reducing inequality on or before year 2030. The study therefore recommends that policy should be put in place in sub-Saharan Africa so as to differentiate the SDGs having short term goals from SDGs having long term goals and from the SDGs having both short term and long-term goals towards the achievement of No Poverty and reducing Inequality on or before year 2030.

scholarly journals Integrating African Indigenous Knowledge in Kenya’s Formal Education System: The Potential for Sustainable Development

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenipher Owuor
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Education System ◽  
School System ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Western Perspective

The current paradigm shift toward promoting education for sustainable development gravitates toward alternative approaches to school curricula in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is argued that solutions to problems that currently plague the continent and with reference to the Kenyan context must proceed from understanding of local capacities such as the role of indigenous knowledge in promoting sustainable development. This can be achieved by integrating indigenous knowledge into the formal education system to address some of the knowledge deficiencies for development that is currently formulated from the western perspective. This approach challenges the dominance of western knowledge in Kenya’s school system that makes education disembodied from context. The purpose of this paper is to explore the meaning of indigenous knowledge, provide rationale for valuing indigenous knowledge in formal school system, examine the government’s efforts to indigenise curricula, and dilemmas to integrating indigenous knowledge in formal education with implications to teacher education programs.

Islam and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melina R. Platas
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Child Mortality ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Colonial Legacies ◽  
Historical Role ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Development Outcomes ◽  
Development Trajectories

The world’s fastest-growing Muslim population resides in sub-Saharan Africa, a region that experiences the lowest levels of economic and human development globally. This chapter shows that Muslims in Africa often experience worse development outcomes than Christians. Across countries, Muslim majority countries are on average poorer, with higher levels of child mortality and lower levels of education, than countries where Muslims are a minority. Within countries, Muslims have fewer years of education than Christians, and experience higher rates of child mortality in a number of countries as well. The chapter discusses three channels through which religion may matter in explaining these divergent development trajectories: institutions, norms and beliefs, and geography. There is evidence of a role for both institutions and norms and beliefs in explaining gaps in development outcomes between Christians and Muslims. However, it is not necessarily the religious content of institutions or beliefs that matters. Colonial legacies that differ across Muslim and non-Muslim areas and the historical role of Christian missionaries in providing social services in Africa are among the factors that also appear to affect long-term development trajectories.

The role of environmental entrepreneurship for sustainable development: Evidence from 35 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 741 ◽  
pp. 140132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huaping Sun ◽  
Aminatou Kemajou Pofoura ◽  
Isaac Adjei Mensah ◽  
Liang Li ◽  
Muhammad Mohsin
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Sub Saharan

scholarly journals Agriculture and Food Security in Mozambique

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Ferrão ◽  
Victoria Bell ◽  
Luis Alfaro Cardoso ◽  
Tito Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Agriculture And Food ◽  
General Wellbeing

The objective of this short review is to contribute to the debate on the role of agriculture transformation in the development process and as an engine to reduce poverty and improve general wellbeing through better access to nutrients in Mozambique. Agricultural services are organized by Provinces but still there is no accurate data on food production, consumption and trade trends in a large sample. It is recognized the complexity of the food security concept and the need of a multidimensional definition and approach. The increase in agricultural productivity can probably be seen as a necessary but not a sufficient condition to achieve long term food security in Mozambique or Sub-Saharan Africa.  Competing views about the relevance of agriculture for growth and development imply different policy priorities in Africa.

The Role of Law in Addressing Poverty and Inequality in High Income Countries: A Comparative View of Menstrual Hygiene Management and Its Impact on Education and Health in the UK and Select High Income Sub-Saharan African Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Bakibinga ◽  
Nightingale Rukuba-Ngaiza
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
High Income ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Uk

Abstract Agenda 2030 on sustainable development promotes a holistic approach to development and emphasizes the need to leave no one behind. Regarding the rule of law, sustainable development goal (SDG) 16.3 focuses on (promoting the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all by 2030) and the related goals and targets on justice. Changing economic conditions in recent decades have caused stagnating wages and widening economic gaps among individual citizens and regions within developed countries and this is reflected in pockets of poverty and inequality in high income countries and islands of excess wealth in developing or low-income countries, worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper examines the legal aspects of poverty and inequality in the education and health sectors in select high-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa and a Western industrialized country such as the UK, with emphasis on period poverty or poor menstrual health management (MHM) as a barrier to access to education and health due to inability to afford sanitary products. The analytical paper applies the institutionalist legislative theory and methodology (ILTAM) and the general theory of law and development, examines the role of the state in regulating the health and education sectors and concludes with key findings and recommendations on how the institutional and legal frameworks can be utilized to foster sustainable development in high-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

Sovereign Wealth Funds and Long-Term Investments in Sub-Saharan Africa

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boubacar Diallo ◽  
Fulbert Tchana Tchana ◽  
Albert G. Zeufack
Keyword(s):  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Sovereign Wealth Funds ◽  
Sub Saharan
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