The politics of central banking in Uganda: Exploring the rise and fall of Uganda’s premier ‘pocket of effectiveness’
Download pdf Working paper 175 Sam Hickey and Haggai Matsiko The Bank of Uganda (BoU) was until recently considered to
The politics of taxation in Uganda: The role of Uganda Revenue Authority
Download pdf Working paper 174 Sam Hickey Since being granted semi-autonomous status in 1991, Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has sometimes
Political settlement dynamics and the emergence and decline of bureaucratic pockets of effectiveness in Ghana
Download pdf Working paper 173 Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai This paper explores the factors that shape the performance trajectories of three relatively
Pockets of effectiveness, political settlements and technopols in Uganda: From state-building to regime survival
Download pdf Working paper 172 Sam Hickey, Badru Bukenya and Haggai Matsiko Uganda’s impressive levels of economic performance over much
State capacity building in Zambia amidst shifting political coalitions and ideologies
Download pdf Working paper 171 Caesar Cheelo and Marja Hinfelaar This paper summarises research on the ‘pocket of effectiveness’ (POE)
The politics of state capacity in post-genocide Rwanda: ‘Pockets of effectiveness’ as state-building prioritisations?
Download pdf Working paper 170 Benjamin Chemouni The paper analyses pockets of effectiveness (PoEs) – public organisations that function better
‘Holding against the tide’: Exploring the role of bureaucratic pockets of effectiveness in Kenya
Download pdf Working paper 168 Matthew Tyce This paper explores the factors that have influenced the performance of the Central
WEBINAR – The politics of building state capacity in Africa: What role for ‘pockets of effectiveness’?
Dr Marja Hinfelaar, SAIPAR Associate Professor Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai, University of Ghana Dr Badru Bukenya, Makerere University Chair: Professor Sam Hickey,
‘KRA has the capacity, but it is kept on a tight leash’: The politics of tax administration and policy in Kenya
Working paper 159 Download pdf Matthew Tyce This paper examines the factors that have influenced the performance of the Kenya
Zambia Revenue Authority professional performance amidst structural constraints, 1994-2019
Working paper 158 Download pdf Caesar Cheelo and Marja Hinfelaar The objective of this paper is to understand the RRA’s
Revenue extraction is not enough: The ambiguous effectiveness of the Rwandan Revenue Authority
Working paper 157 Download pdf Benjamin Chemouni The objective of this paper is to understand the RRA’s relatively high, and
Bank of Zambia’s autonomy amidst political turnovers in Zambia
Working paper 153 Download pdf Caesar Cheelo and Marja Hinfelaar This working paper analyses the role of Zambia’s central bank,
The politics of building effective water utilities in the Global South: A case of NWSC Uganda
Working paper 152 Download pdf Badru Bukenya Although most public water utilities in developing countries perform poorly, some have achieved
The political economy of central bank effectiveness: The case of National Bank of Rwanda
Working paper 151 Download pdf Pritish Behuria In a survey conducted in Rwanda by the Pockets of Effectiveness project, the
The Kenyan National Treasury: A ‘pocket of effectiveness’ curtailed
Working paper 150 Download pdf Matthew Tyce This paper examines the factors that have shaped the ability of Kenya’s National
Political economy of policy and implementation in the Bangladesh health sector: Implications for reducing maternal mortality
Working paper 133 Download pdf Simeen Mahmud (with contributions from Nuzhat Sharmeen and Moogdho Mahzab) This paper discusses the politics of
The politics of central banking in Kenya: Balancing political and developmental interests
Working paper 130 Download pdf Matthew Tyce This paper analyses the performance of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) in
The challenge of sustaining a professional civil service amidst shifting political coalitions: The case of the Ministry of Finance in Zambia, 1991-2018
Pockets of Effectiveness Working Paper 6 Download pdf Marja Hinfelaar and Justine Sichone Zambia experienced a decade of strong economic
The shifting fortunes of the economic technocracy in Uganda: Caught between state-building and regime survival?
Pockets of Effectiveness Working Paper 5 Download pdf Badru Bukenya and Sam Hickey Uganda’s impressive levels of economic growth over
The rise of the economic technocracy in Rwanda: A case of a bureaucratic pocket of effectiveness or state-building prioritisation?
Pockets of Effectiveness Working Paper 4 Download pdf Benjamin Chemouni The Rwandan Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN) is recognised