Policing Reforms and Economic Development in African States: Empowering Change

Otwin Marenin

No wp-2013-013, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Democracy; Economic assistance and foreign aid; Economic development; Social conflict (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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