Kwame Akonor: 3 books
Africa and IMF Conditionality
The Unevenness of Compliance, 1983-2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Ghana was one of the first African countries to adopt a comprehensive IMF reform program and the one that has sustained adjustment longest. Yet, questions of Ghana's compliance - to what extent did it comply, how did it manage compliance, what patterns of non-compliance existed, and why? - have not...
by Kwame Akonor
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This book analyzes how, and under what conditions, African International Economic Organizations (IEO) have evolved, and what individual and collective contributions, if any, these African IEOs have had on Africa’s socio-economic development.
Providing a comprehensive and accessible overview,...
UN Peacekeeping in Africa
A Critical Examination and Recommendations for Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This timely volume explores the “dark side” of United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping in Africa: when rather than help establish a rule of law in the host country, they become perpetrators of crime. The work of the UN peacekeepers is generally comprised of police and military personnel, from countries...