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
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 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
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
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 impact of Covid-19 on oil and gas producers in developing countries
12 June 2020Farwa Sial The global oil industry is experiencing major shocks as the Covid-19 pandemic endures. The challenge to the
The politics of shelter: Understanding outcomes in three African cities
Working paper 145 Download pdf Diana Mitlin This paper analyses the politics of shelter provision in three African cities, focusing
The politics of distributing social transfers in Oromiya, Ethiopia: Encadrement and the fluctuation of state infrastructural power
Working paper 142 Download pdf Tom Lavers, Dunyat Haile and Yerosan Mesfin This paper examines the politics of distributing the
The politics of distributing social transfers in Afar, Ethiopia: The intertwining of party, state and clan in the periphery
Working paper 141 Download pdf Tom Lavers, Dawud Mohammed and Bisrat Wolde Selassie This paper examines the politics of distributing social
Alternative routes to the institutionalisation of social transfers in sub-Saharan Africa: Political survival strategies and transnational policy coalitions
Working paper 138 Download pdf Tom Lavers and Sam Hickey The new phase of social protection expansion in the Global
Control the capital: Cities and political dominance
Working paper 135 Download pdf Tom Goodfellow David Jackman As optimism about the ‘third wave’ of democratisation has waned in