Strong Societies and Weak States: State-Society Relations and State Capabilities in the Third World. Joel S. Migdal

1991 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-220
Author(s):  
Jeff Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Weak States ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

Why Africa's Weak States Persist: The Empirical and the Juridical in Statehood

1982 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Jackson ◽  
Carl G. Rosberg
Keyword(s):  
International Society ◽  
Third World ◽  
Weak States ◽  
Black African ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
The Third ◽  
Black Africa ◽  
The World ◽  
The Third World ◽  
National Governments

State institutions and organizations in Black Africa are less developed than almost anywhere else, and political instability has been prevalent. Yet, these serious empirical weaknesses have not led to enforced jurisdictional change. In order to explain the persistence of some of the weakest states in the world, the authors argue that state jurisdictions in Black Africa have been maintained primarily by the international society of states. Unlike the states that formed in Europe at an earlier period, many Black African states evolved—and survived—in the absence of effective national governments. Whereas state jurisdictions and international society once were consequences of the success and survival of states, today in Black Africa—and perhaps elsewhere, especially in the Third World—they are more likely to be conditions.

Power for development. Electricity in the Third World

IEE Review ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Mohan Munasinghe
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

Health Informatics Education in the Third World

1989 ◽  
Vol 28 (04) ◽  
pp. 270-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Rienhoff
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Third World ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Collaboration Network ◽  
Educational Tools ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

Abstract:The state of the art is summarized showing many efforts but only few results which can serve as demonstration examples for developing countries. Education in health informatics in developing countries is still mainly dealing with the type of health informatics known from the industrialized world. Educational tools or curricula geared to the matter of development are rarely to be found. Some WHO activities suggest that it is time for a collaboration network to derive tools and curricula within the next decade.

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