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
Open access books make OUP’s top 10 titles
We're thrilled that two of ESID's recent open access publications have made the Oxford University Press' top 10 economics books
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 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
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
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
Who should get what, how and why? DFID and the transnational politics of social cash transfers
Working paper 131 Download pdf Sam Hickey Jeremy Seekings The proliferation of social cash transfers (SCTs) across much of Africa
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
Professor Ursula Hoadley
Role Ursula Hoadley is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Cape Town. She works
NEW OPEN ACCESS BOOK – Negotiating Gender Equity in the Global South: The Politics of Domestic Violence Policy
12 March 2019 "This book provides exciting new ways of thinking about how women’s rights policy change occurs in the Global
Mohammed Awal
Role Mohammed Awal is a research analyst, and social accountability programming team lead at the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development
Profile of an ESID expert – Pritish Behuria
27 November 2018 Pritish Behuria is a Hallsworth Research Fellow at The Global Development Institute (GDI), The University of
How did the West get China wrong? Annual ESID Adrian Leftwich Memorial Lecture by Professor Yuen Yuen Ang
17 October 2018 ESID together with the Global Development Institute is delighted to be welcoming Dr Yuen Yuen Ang, Associate
EVENT IN GHANA – Symposium on the future of dams
5 June 2018 Our Ghanaian friends and colleagues or anyone in Ghana on June 11th, join us for an important
Dr M. Niaz Asadullah
Role Dr M. Niaz Asadullah is Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, and a Visiting
Public sector reform in Africa: Understanding the paths and politics of change
Briefing No. 28 This briefing explores why some states in Africa seem to be stuck in a spiral of corruption
Varieties of state-building in Africa: Elites, ideas and the politics of public sector reform
Working paper 89 Download pdf Pablo Yanguas Why do some states in Africa seem to be stuck in a spiral