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Title: | Building State capacity in Africa: new approaches, emerging lessons |
Editors: | Levy, Brian Kpundeh, Sahr John |
Year: | 2004 |
Pages: | 377 |
Language: | English |
Series: | WBI development studies |
City of publisher: | Washington, DC |
Publisher: | World Bank |
ISBN: | 0821360000 |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | capacity building public sector governance economic policy |
Abstract: | In recent years, a number of African governments have moved forward with new-style programmes to build public sector capacity. This volume draws on the experience of public sector reform implementation in more than a dozen African countries. It addresses topics such as the relationship between governance and economic development, public expenditure and accountability, anticorruption reform, decentralization, political structures and the delivery of public services. Contributions: Brian Levy: Governance and economic development in Africa: meeting the challenge of capacity building. Mike Stevens and Stefanie Teggemann: Comparative experience with public service reform in Ghana, Tanzania, and Zambia. Poul Engberg-Pedersen and Brian Levy: Building State capacity in Africa: learning from performance and results. Kithinji Kiragu, Rwekaza Mukandala, and Denyse Morin: Reforming pay policy: techniques, sequencing, and politics. Harry Garnett and William Plowden: Cabinets, budgets, and poverty: political commitment to poverty reduction. Bill Dorotinsky and Rob Floyd: Public expenditure accountability in Africa: progress, lessons, and challenges. Joel D. Barkan, Ladipo Adamolekun, and Yongmei Zhou with Mouftaou Laleye and Njuguna Ng'ethe: Emerging legislatures: institutions of horizontal accountability. Sahr Kpundeh: Process interventions versus structural reforms: institutionalizing anticorruption reforms in Africa. Stephen N. Ndegwa and Brian Levy: The politics of decentralization in Africa: a comparative analysis. Alec Ian Gershberg and Donald R. Winkler. Education decentralization in Africa: a review of recent policy and practice. Dele Olowu, Joel D. Barkan, and Njuguna Ng'ethe: Reflections. [ASC Leiden abstract] |