Building state capacity in Africa : new approaches, emerging lessons /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Levy, Brian, 1954-, Kpundeh, Sahr John
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC : World Bank, 2004.
Series:	WBI development studies.
Subjects:	Africa > Politics and government > 1960- Infrastructure (Economics) > Africa. Africa > Economic policy. Africa > Economic conditions > 1960- Africa > Social policy.

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.