Book Description
This report examines the co-operation potential of West African regions, the structure of cross-border policy networks, and the spatial vision that policy makers have of cross-border co-operation.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 2017-01-13
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ISBN : 9264265872
This report examines the co-operation potential of West African regions, the structure of cross-border policy networks, and the spatial vision that policy makers have of cross-border co-operation.
Author : Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Publisher : Organization for Economic Co-Operation & Development
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,20 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 9789264265769
This publication examines how policy actors involved in cross-border co-operation contribute to the regional integration process in West Africa. It uses a pioneering methodology, known as social network analysis, to visualise the formal and informal relationships between actors involved in cross-border policy networks, showing that borders have notable and diverse impacts on exchanges of information and the relative power of networks. The report then analyses a range of regional indicators of co-operation potential, visually demonstrating that borders can also affect the ability of sub-regions within West Africa to develop cross-border initiatives in a number of ways. Combining these two analyses with the perceptions of regional policy makers as to which border areas they consider as priorities for regional integration, the publication concludes with the analytical foundations for more effective place-based policies that can enhance cross-border co-operation in West Africa.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 37,74 MB
Release : 2022-02-19
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ISBN : 9264317376
This publication examines the role of border regions in shaping patterns of violence since the end of the 1990s in North and West Africa. Using the innovative OECD Spatial Conflict Dynamics indicator (SCDi), the report looks at the growing relationship between political violence and borderlands at the regional level, by analysing more than 170 000 violent events between January 1997 and June 2021 and through the exploration of case studies in the Central and Eastern Sahel.
Author : Yuichi Sasaoka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,84 MB
Release : 2022-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000542785
Assessing the different kinds of borders between African nations, the contributors present a borderland and trans-region approach to understanding the challenges and opportunities facing the peoples of the African continent. Africa faces rampant violence, terrorism, deterioration of water-energy-food provision, influxes of refugees and immigrants, and religious hatred under the trends of globalization. Solutions for these issues require new perspectives that are not attempted by conventional state-building approaches. Statehood is limited in many places on the African continent because many states are combined by loose political ties. African states’ borders tend to be regarded as porous and fragile. However, as the contributors to this volume argue, those porous borders can contribute to cultural and socio-economic network construction beyond states and the creation of active borderlands by increasing people’s mobility, contact, and trade. A must read for scholars of African studies that will also be of great value to academics and students with a broader interest in nationhood, globalization, and borders.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 34,32 MB
Release : 2021-03-29
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ISBN : 9264455906
Conflicts in North and West Africa have become more violent and widespread than in the past. They have also become more difficult to resolve due to the complex relationships between a growing number of belligerents with diverging agendas. This report maps conflict networks and the evolution of rivalries and alliances in 21 North and West African countries.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 29,14 MB
Release : 2009-10-15
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ISBN : 9264059768
Presents a cross-cutting analysis of the main development challenges for the West African region and offers suggestions on how to meet them.
Author : Olivier Walther
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,51 MB
Release : 2015
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The objective of this paper is to show how a formal approach to networks can make a significant contribution to the study of cross-border trade in West Africa. Building on the formal tools and theories developed by Social Network Analysis, we examine the network organization of 136 large traders in two border regions between Niger, Nigeria, and Benin. In a business environment where transaction costs are extremely high, we find that decentralized networks are well adapted to the various uncertainties induced by long-distance trade. We also find that long-distance trade relies both on the trust and cooperation shared among local traders, and on the distant ties developed with foreign partners from a different origin, religion or culture. Studying the spatial structure of trade networks, we find that in those markets where trade is recent and where most of the traders are not native of the region, national borders are likely to exert a greater influence than in those regions where trade has pre-colonial roots. Combining formal network analysis and ethnographic studies, we argue, can make a significant contribution to the current revival of interest in cross-border trade in the policy field.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,65 MB
Release : 2009-03-23
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ISBN : 9264056017
This publication presents contributions by international experts on various aspects of West African migration.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2014-12-19
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ISBN : 9264222359
This book explains the structure and geographical and organisational mobility of criminal and migratory movements in the Sahara and the Sahel with a view to helping establish better development strategies for the region.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 10,46 MB
Release : 2012-02-02
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ISBN : 9264171843
This publication explores current global security issues, their development in West Africa and their potential impact on regional stability. It takes a close look at issues such as terrorism and trafficking, climate change, and the links between security and development.