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Challenges to Sustainability in Africa

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Patricia Kameri-Mbote is Professor of Law at Strathmore University. She previously worked as an Associate Professor of Law at the School of La w, University of Nairobi and is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She studied law in Nairobi, Warwick, Zimbabwe and Stanford and has served as a Policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She has published widely in the areas of international law, environmental law, women's rights and property rights.

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  1. AU Framework.

  2. Yeager (2010).

  3. http://www.africapractice.com/pdf/uploads/African%20Businesses%20and%20Sustainable%20Development%20survey.pdf

  4. http://www.africapractice.com/pdf/uploads/African%20Businesses%20and%20Sustainable%20Development%20survey.pdf

  5. World Bank website (accessed 2 September 2011 ) http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/EXTPA/0,,contentMDK:20153855~menuPK:435040~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:430367,00.html

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  • Government of Kenya (2010) ‘National Climate Change Response Strategy’, April.

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  • World Commission on Environment and Development (1987) ‘Our Common Future’, Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development.

  • Yeager, Racheal (2010) ‘Growth Potential and Sustainability Challenges in Africa’, http://blog.bsr.org/2010/06/growth-potential-and-sustainability.html, accessed 2 September 2010.

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Looks at the multifaceted challenges to sustainability in African states

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Kameri-Mbote, P. Challenges to Sustainability in Africa. Development 54, 243–246 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2011.8

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