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Decentralization and Constitutionalism in Africa
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This volume deals with the relationship between constitutionalism and economic growth in Africa and addresses five questions: (1) In the constitutional reforms of the 1990s and thereafter, did constitutions also reflect the shift towards a market economy through the protection of property and freedom of contract? (2) Given that agriculture and extractive industries are the main source of state revenue in many African economies, how are matters of land and other natural resources dealt with constitutionally? (3) Where the market economy is captured in a constitution, what is the state’s relationship to that economy: interventionist or laissez-faire, or somewhere in between? Have constitutions also established a ‘social’ state that provides the basic elements of a dignified life? (4) In the process of constitution-making and implementation with regard to the economy, what impact has globalization had on constitutionalism and economic life in Africa? (5) Overall, the question is how has the relationship between constitutionalism and economic growth played out in practice? Is there a symbiotic relationship and has constitutionalism led (or may do so) to greater economic prosperity?
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Keywords
- Africa
- Constitutionalism
- Constitutions
- Developmental state
- economy
- Land
- Market economy
- Minerals
- Right to property
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory
- thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNC Company, commercial and competition law: general
- World trade regime
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DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192886439.001.0001Editions