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)
What next for the political economy of development in Africa? Facing up to the challenge of economic transformation
Download pdf Working paper 163 David Booth The forthcoming final conclusions of the Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) programme
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
The ‘new’ institutional politics of Ghana’s hydrocarbon governance
Download pdf Working paper 169 Kojo Asante, Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai and Giles Mohan Ghana’s discovery of oil in 2007 saw a
‘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
The politics of social protection in Nepal: State infrastructural power and implementation of the Scholarship Programme
Download pdf Working paper 167 Uma Pradhan, Deepak Thapa, Jeevan Baniya, Yangchen Gurung, Sanjay Mahato and Indrajit Roy This paper
The politics of social protection in Kenya: State capacity, political competition and social pension registration in Marsabit County
Download pdf Working paper 166 Tahira Shariff Mohamed, Alesha Porisky and Patrick Mutinda Muthui In 2017, the government of Kenya
The political settlements dataset: An introduction with illustrative applications
Download working paper pdf Download political settlements dataset codebook pdf Download dataset introduction paper, country-year coder-level dataset and the core
The politics of distributing social protection in Bangladesh: Insights from the Primary Education Stipends Project (Phase 3)
Download pdf Working paper 164 Naomi Hossain In 2016, a conditional cash transfer programme that had been assisting targeted poor
Geographies of urban dominance: The politics of Harare’s periphery
Download pdf Working paper 162 JoAnn McGregor and Kudzai Chatiza This paper examines how Zimbabwe’s ruling party ZANU(PF) sought to
Distributing social transfers in Rwanda: The case of the Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme (VUP)
Download pdf Working paper 160 Timothy P. Williams, Sylvestre Nzahabwanayo, Tom Lavers and Eric Ndushabandi This paper examines the political dynamics shaping
‘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
The political economy of health insurance enrolment in Ethiopia: Party, state and the quest for universal health coverage
Working paper 156 Download pdf Tom Lavers Many developing countries are considering insurance as a means of pursuing universal health
The distributional politics of social transfers in Kenya
Working paper 155 Download pdf Alesha Porisky This paper examines the politics of distributing social transfers across four diverse counties
Gender equitable policy reforms in Bangladesh: The role of informal networks and practices
Working paper 154 Download pdf Maheen Sultan and Pragyna Mahpara This paper explores the way power operates in a gendered
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,