EVENT – Comparative workshop in Zambia: Pockets of Effectiveness
8 July 2019 Our researchers are in Zambia this week for workshops on pockets of effectiveness A major challenge for
The rise of the economic technocracy in Rwanda: A case of a bureaucratic pocket of effectiveness or state-building prioritisation?
Working paper 120 Download pdf Benjamin Chemouni The Rwandan Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN) is recognised as the
Doing business in a deals world: The doubly false premise of rules reform
Working paper 123 Download pdf Sabyasachi Kar, Lant Pritchett, Spandan Roy and Kunal Sen The World Bank’s Doing Business reports
Five ESID books are open access and free to download
26 June 2019 With the recent publication of two new books, The Politics of Education in Developing Countries and Negotiating
The politics of bureaucratic ‘pockets of effectiveness’: Insights from Ghana’s Ministry of Finance
Working paper 119 Download pdf Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai and Giles Mohan Ghana’s Ministry of Finance (MoF) has been identified as a
The politics of state capacity and development in Africa: Reframing and researching ‘pockets of effectiveness’
Working Paper 117 Download pdf Sam Hickey The role of bureaucratic ‘pockets of effectiveness’ (PoEs) in driving development is generating
Pockets of effectiveness: The contributions of critical political economy and state theory
Working paper 118 Download pdf Giles Mohan The pockets of effectiveness (PoEs) debates and political settlements literature are rooted in
The shifting fortunes of the economic technocracy in Uganda: Caught between state-building and regime survival?
Working paper 121 Download pdf Badru Bukenya and Sam Hickey Uganda’s impressive levels of economic growth over most of the
The challenge of sustaining a professional civil service amidst shifting political coalitions: The case of the Ministry of Finance in Zambia, 1991-2018
Working paper 122 Download pdf Marja Hinfelaar and Justine Sichone Zambia experienced a decade of strong economic growth from 2004
Productivist social protection in Ethiopia’s ‘developmental state’
12 June 2019 Tom Lavers Two recent ESID papers published in African Affairs and Social Science and Medicine (both open
PODCAST – Sam Hickey and Sohela Nazneen present findings of ESID book, Negotiating Gender Equity in the Global South
30 May 2019 In this podcast, Professor Sam Hickey presents an overview of ESID's new book, Negotiating Gender Equity in
The interplay of ideas, institutional innovations and organisational structures: Insights from group farming in India
Working paper 116 Download pdf Bina Agarwal An innovative development programme requires ideas at multiple stages, from conception to implementation.
African development and the marginalisation of domestic capitalists
Working paper 115 Download pdf Pritish Behuria The revival of industrial policy discussions has operated in parallel to reports of
The persistent challenges of development in Rwanda
18 April 2019 Pritish Behuria This article appeared in a special edition of The East African for #Kwibuka25 in commemoration
Service delivery reform in Nigeria: The rise and fall of the Conditional Grant Scheme to Local Government Areas (CGS to LGAs)
Working paper 114 Download pdf Bala Yunusa Yusuf and David Hulme This paper analyses Nigeria’s Conditional Grant Scheme to Local
Governing Extractive Industries book launches at Oxfam America
17 April 2019 Professor Anthony Bebbington Having somebody else explain to you what your book is about is both a
Spanish version of Governing Extractive Industries book out now
17 April 2019 Gobernanza de las industrias extractivas : política, historia, ideas Las ideas para el proyecto de investigación sobre
WATCH: Leading ESID experts present main findings in Cape Town
16 April 2019 Leading experts Tim Kelsall, Sam Hickey and Brian Levy recently presented ESID's main findings at The Mandela
Can politics help explain persistently low education quality in Rwanda?
3 April 2019 Tim Williams Based on Dr William's research published in World Development, this post was originally featured as
LIVE STREAMED EVENT – Anthony Bebbington speaks at Oxfam America on Extractive Industries, Inclusion, Rights and Climate
Political Settlements and Extractive Industries: Implications for Inclusion, Rights and Climate When: Thursday, 4 April, 2019 12 - 2pm Where:
Professor Ursula Hoadley
Role Ursula Hoadley is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Cape Town. She works
EVENT – Discussion on ESID's findings at University of Cape Town
If you are able to be in Cape Town this Thursday, don't miss the opportunity to join our leading researchers, Prof