Building state capacity in Africa : new approaches, emerging lessons / edited by Brian Levy, Sahr Kpundeh.

"Building State Capacity in Africa draws on the experiences of public sector reform implementation in more than a dozen African countries to address such topics as the relationship between governance and economic development, public expenditure and accountability, anticorruption reform, decentr...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Levy, Brian, 1954-, Kpundeh, Sahr John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : World Bank, 2004.
Series:WBI development studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Governance and economic development in Africa : meeting the challenge of capacity building / Brian Levy
  • Comparative experience with public service reform in Ghana, Tanzania, and Zambia / Mike Stevens and Stefanie Teggemann
  • Building state capacity in Africa : learning from performance and results / Poul Engberg-Pedersen and Brian Levy
  • Reforming pay policy : techniques, sequencing, and politics / Kithinji Kiragu, Rwekaza Mukandala, and Denyse Morin
  • Cabinets, budgets, and poverty : political commitment to poverty reduction / Harry Garnett and William Plowden
  • Public expenditure accountability in Africa : progress, lessons, and challenges / Bill Dorotinsky and Rob Floyd
  • Emerging legislatures : institutions of horizontal accountability / Joel D. Barkan, Ladipo Adamolekun, and Yongmei Zhou with Mouftaou Laleye and Njuguna Ng'ethe
  • Process interventions versus structural reforms : institutionalizing anticorruption reforms in Africa / Sahr Kpundeh
  • The politics of decentralization in Africa : a comparative analysis / Stephen N. Ndegwa and Brian Levy
  • Education decentralization in Africa : a review of recent policy and practice / Alec Ian Gershberg and Donald R. Winkler
  • Reflections / Dele Olowu, Joel D. Barkan, and Njuguna Ng'ethe.