Jerry Kolo

Jerry Kolo
American University of Sharjah | AUS

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The greatest development feats in the world to date have been enabled by infrastructure. Historically, infrastructure is a constant driver in the development of societies. Yet, it remains the bane of development worldwide today, especially in light of the world’s climatic, financial and strategic challenges. The capacity and adequacy of infrastruct...
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Since the world adopted sustainable development (SD) as a development philosophy in 1992, SD implementation concepts and strategies have featured in scholarly, policy and development circles. The various creative approaches to SD implementation attest to the diversity of the global context in which implementation occurs. This diversity informed the...
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This paper contends that the discourse on the identity, dynamics, functioning and governance of future cities is shaped by various factors, chief of which is the disciplinary lenses of discussants, in which their interests, convictions and biases are embedded. These lenses are exemplified by the various conceptualizations of cities, such as smart c...
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This exploratory study addresses the question of a feasible complementary economic model for the teeming population in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) that lives at the subsistence level. The study rationalized the contention that SSA is in a development straitjacket and its much-touted economic rise is more rhetoric than reality. Postmodern Keynesian eco...
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Large urban systems are infrastructure systems that are needed to make cities sustainable. Around the world, cities are rapidly morphing into regions, and these regions must collaborate and develop cost-effective infrastructure systems. A review of the collaborative regional approach to infrastructure development in the Emirates’ Abu Dhabi-Dubai-Sh...
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This study explores the challenges and opportunities for entrepreneurship development in Nigeria and Zimbabwe. The cross-national comparative analysis provides insights on the diverse and unique configuration of institutional logics that promote and/or constrain entrepreneurship development in sub-Saharan African. The contextual opportunities and b...
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This chapter proposes some strategic initiatives for African governments, corporations, non-profits and citizens to take, in an effort to deploy innovation and knowledge to build the capacity of entrepreneurs, thereby enabling them to produce goods and services that are profitable in the marketplace. The chapter argues that Africa’s role and presen...
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This paper examined the growth and development of Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates as examples of cities using an urban development model that confounds classical, historic, and popular Western models. The paper aimed to ascertain whether the cities ‘fit’ the accidental or envisioned cities characterization in the literature. The two...
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This paper contends that, individually and collectively, the member-States of the Gulf Cooperating Council (GCC) demonstrate political will and commit resources, along with numerous policy and programmatic initiatives, to address the region’s myriad of complex and intertwined environmental challenges. Yet, ample evidence and data exist to show that...
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This chapter identifies specific initiatives that sHb-Saharan African (SSA) co1411tries need to ponder and adapt in order to develop rob11st and competitive tourism sectors. The chapter reviews the tourism literature and rationalizes that tourism holds enormous potentials for SSA to achieve sHstainable development and alleviate mass poverty, if it...
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In its bid to be at the forefront of higher education in the Arabian Gulf region, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has embarked upon major internationalisation initiatives. This paper documents the extent of these efforts in the light of observed challenges. Our paper provides some practical/social implications for foreign universities - past, presen...
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The purpose of our paper is to provide a commentary on the key challenges facing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) international tourism marketing strategies. The rationale for the paper is that tourism, both domestic and international, and in all its genres (ecotourism, leisure tourism, medical tourism, etc.) is,...
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As the world embarks upon the Road to Rio (i.e. Rio de Janeiro), it is clear that these are indeed warning times to save the world through the use of renewable energy in a bid to cut back carbon footprints for which the Middle East is renowned. As the UAE recently secured the IRENA headquarter status, a key member of the UAE delegation to Rio happe...
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As the world embarked upon the Road to Rio (i.e., Rio de Janeiro), global attention to 'saving the world from itself', became renewed. In a bid to cut back the carbon footprints for which the Middle East is renowned, it is interesting to see that a member of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) delegation also is a member of one of the ruling families. S...
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Abstract—There is a tendency for sustainable development (SD) research, policies and programs to focus primarily on technological and economic growth strategies for achieving the intent and ideals of SD. Far reaching as the effects of such strategies are, this paper contends that there is a fundamental aspect of the sustainability challenge that is...
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Sustainable development (SD) now features prominently in policy and scholarly discussions about growth and development at all levels of society. A heated and unsettling aspect of these discussions remains how communities, with their vast differences, can achieve the intent and ideals of SD. Of the various extant agendas and initiatives for SD imple...
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This paper argues that Sub-Saharan Africa is a passive bystander in the global 'knowledge economy' race. In this race, success hinges on a country's capacity to develop and apply tacit knowledge to production systems, resulting in wealth creation and an enhanced quality of life. This race is currently led by four regions, called knowledge engines,...
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This paper contends that the conceptual basis for sustainable development (SD) planning and policy making in Africa is inadequate and needs to be broadened or ‘scaled up.’ Thus, the paper takes SD discourse to a new conceptual level, based on the contention that SD achievements in the continent are dismal. Two of several causes of poor SD performan...
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This paper contends that the conceptual basis for sustainable development (SD) planning and policy making in Africa is inadequate and needs to be broadened or 'scaled up.' Thus, the paper takes SD discourse to a new conceptual level, based on the contention that SD achievements in the continent are dismal. Two of several causes of poor SD performan...
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This paper contends that the conceptual basis for sustainable development (SD) planning and policy making in Africa is inadequate and needs to be broadened or 'scaled up.' Thus, the paper takes SD discourse to a new conceptual level, based on the contention that SD achievements in the continent are dismal. Two of several causes of poor SD performan...
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Purpose – This paper seeks to look at failed development paradigms in West Africa, one of the world's poorest regions, and to argue that new and contextually relevant methods are needed to stem poverty, engage people in productive microenterprises, improve people's quality of life, and foster patriotism and civic involvement among citizens. Design...
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This paper contends that effective environmental planning is imperative in the Third World if the capacity of the environment to sustain genuine development is not to be undermined, and if the present and future generations are not to pay the price for an abused environment. Poverty, the need for economic growth, and population, pose some dilemmas...
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This paper examines the institutional dimension of participatory and decentralised planning in Nigeria. This is an important dimension of planning that has received little — but deserves more — attention from planning scholars and professionals in Nigeria. The ineffectiveness of Nigeria's existing territorial framework, i.e. the local government (L...

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