BOOK REVIEW – CRITIQUE BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-118
Author(s):  
Richard Frimpong Oppong
Keyword(s):  
Legal Framework ◽  
West African ◽  
Institutional Transformation ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
United Nations Economic Commission ◽  
Economic Commission ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Economic integration has been promoted as essential for the development of Africa. Currently, the principal vehicle for integration in the West Africa sub-region is the Economic Community of West African States [ECOWAS]. A lot has been written on ECOWAS from socio-economic and political perspectives. What has so far been missing is a comprehensive study of ECOWAS from a legal or institutional perspective. It is a defining characteristic of Africa's integration processes that the role of law, rules or institutions has not been emphasised. The process has been a political construct fortified by economic theory with the central role of law or institutions missing. Indeed, a 2006 report of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa found the existing legal framework for Africa's integration ‘ambiguous and imprecise’. It is against this background that Dr. Kofi Oteng Kufuor's book The Institutional Transformation of the Economic Community of West African States is timely and welcomed. It is the singular contribution of Kufuor's work that while not ignoring the importance of the socio-economic and political perspectives, he brings to bear on the study of ECOWAS a legal and institutional perspective that is at once critical and rigorous.

The ECOMOG Initiative in Liberia: A Liberian Perspective

1993 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 74-83
Author(s):  
S. Byron Tarr
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
West African ◽  
Security System ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Internal Conflicts ◽  
Cooperative Security ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Monitoring Group ◽  
Inter State

This is a Liberian perspective on the unique initiative by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to resolve the Liberian conflict by organizing and deploying a Peace Monitoring Group in Liberia. It considers whether ECOWAS’ initiative can become a self-reliant security system that can end a civil war and institutionalize deterrence to subregional inter-state and internal conflicts. Can this self-generated, West African initiative set the stage for democratization? Is the initiative the start of an inter-African cooperative security system? Is the model of Nigerian leadership a harbinger of a regional hegemony in the making? Is the modest role of the USA constructive in resolving the conflict, in light of the fact that Liberia is a country with which the USA has had an historic relationship?

scholarly journals Ebola haemorrhagic fever in africa: a necessary highlight

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Samuel Adu-Gyamfi
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
International Community ◽  
West African ◽  
Haemorrhagic Fever ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Border Health ◽  
The West ◽  
Global Threat ◽  
Scientific Facts

<p><span lang="EN-GB">The purpose of this commentary is to re-evaluate the historic and scientific facts on Ebola haemorrhagic fever and the role of the international community, especially Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in stemming the tide. It rehashes the argument on causes and prevention and draws attention of readers to emphasize the need for establishment of airport, sea port and border health posts with well drilled and efficient health professionals to be able to test, detect and quarantine persons with Ebola and treat them to prevent the spread of the disease from infected persons to primary or first contacts and secondary contacts. Significantly, countries in the West African sub-region are alarmed by the potential spread of the disease to countries that have hitherto been free of the disease. The potential global threat of the disease has been analysed and measures to be taken by countries within the West-African sub-region have been emphasized. This notwithstanding, does the declaration of countries as Ebola-free suggest the last of it?</span></p>

scholarly journals Does Foreign Aid Promote Financial Development in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)?

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. p39
Author(s):  
W. Jean Marie Kébré
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Financial Development ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
West African ◽  
International Financial Institutions ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Negative Effect

This article analyzes relationship between foreign aid and financial development in ECOWAS countries. These countries receive aid flows from developed countries and from international financial institutions. The article’s idea is to evaluate this aid effects on financial development and to assess role of governance on this relationship. The analysis uses panel data from ECOWAS countries over the period 1984-2016. The estimations’ results, based on Dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) estimator, show that aid is negatively and significantly linked with financial development indicators used. These results suggest that aid is an obstacle to financial development. Governance role tests do not change the negative effect of aid on financial development. However, the magnitude of the negative effect of interactive variables (with governance variables) is less than aid direct effect on financial development. These results suggest that an additional effort to improve governance in these countries would reduce aid negative effect on financial development, or even reverse this effect.

The Role of Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS) in Post-Conflict Rehabilitation: Lessons from Liberia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Kwaja
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Rehabilitation Program ◽  
West African ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
Violent Conflicts

In the aftermath of the violent conflict in Liberia, the issue of post- conflict rehabilitation took center stage, with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) deeply involved in an elaborate post-conflict rehabilitation program in the country. Through the use of content analysis, this paper explores the involvement of ECOWAS in post-conflict rehabilitation in Liberia in the context of the devastating consequences of violent conflicts that the country experienced. In specific terms, it highlights key lessons learnt from the ECOWAS intervention in Liberia, as part of its mandate for peace, security and stability in the region.

Transboundary Freshwater Ecosystems in International Law

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruby Moynihan
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Approach ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Freshwater Ecosystems ◽  
Freshwater Ecosystem ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
United Nations Economic Commission ◽  
Economic Commission ◽  
General Rules ◽  
Sustainable Water Supply ◽  
Rules And Principles

A global water crisis with far-reaching and interconnected environmental, social, health and economic impacts threatens the world. Healthy ecosystems and ecosystem services are degrading, and access to a sustainable water supply is increasingly inequitable both within and between States. This book demonstrates how to overcome the global freshwater ecosystem crisis by matching the scientific recommendations with an international legal framework fit for the task, which re-orientates international water law towards a stronger ecosystem approach that also protects vulnerable societies. It illustrates how to understand the fragmented legally binding and non-binding instruments of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe environmental treaties as one coherent legal regime, which contributes to strengthening general rules and principles of the law concerning transboundary freshwater ecosystems. With the recent global opening of the UNECE regime, this book explores its potential role within the European region, Central Asia, Caucasus, Africa, the Middle East and beyond.

After a Symposium on Development — The Red Cross in Africa

1975 ◽  
Vol 15 (170) ◽  
pp. 223-229
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Review ◽  
United Nations Economic Commission ◽  
The Past ◽  
Economic Commission ◽  
The United Nations

As announced in the last issue of the International Review, a Symposium on the Development of the Red Cross in Africa was recently held at Montreux (Switzerland). It was organized by the League of Red Cross Societies and attended by officers of thirty-five African Societies and representatives of eight of the main donor Societies which had contributed to the programme for the development of the Red Cross in Africa over the past ten years. Experts from African universities, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and other United Nations agencies also attended the Symposium, as did representatives of the League, the ICRC and the Joint Committee for the Reappraisal of the Role of the Red Cross.

Workshop on the Role of Women in Urban Development

1964 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-114
Author(s):  
Jean Comhaire
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
African Countries ◽  
United Nations Economic Commission ◽  
Economic Commission ◽  
The Social

The main aim of the social affairs section of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, in organising this workshop, was to analyse the economic aspects of the situation of women in African urban areas, and their importance in general economic development. Twenty-four women had been invited from as many African countries, representing the whole range of modern activities; 14 of them came, with another 10 representing the various regions of Nigeria, and more than 50 observers.

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