Authors: Nicolas Van de Walle, Nicole Ball, Vijaya Ramachandran
ISBN-13: 9781403963161, ISBN-10: 1403963169
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: November 2003
Edition: REV
Nicholas van de Walle is Professor in the Government Department at Cornell University.
Nicole Ball is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Maryland and Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy.
Vijaya Ramachandran is Senior Economist in the Africa Private Sector Group of the World Bank.
This is a very useful and timely book. It provides us with an excellent overview of the salient issues on African development in the post-structural adjustment era. It will be required reading for those following development in Africa. Carol Lancaster --assistant professor and Master of Science in Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Acknowledgements | ||
1 | Introduction: The State and African Development | 1 |
2 | Financing Africa's Development: Toward a Business Plan? | 35 |
3 | Tax Reform and Democratic Accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa | 77 |
4 | African Governance and Civil Service Reforms | 101 |
5 | Forging Developmental Synergies Between States and Associations | 131 |
6 | Democratic Decentralization of Natural Resources: Institutional Choice and Discretionary Power Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa | 159 |
7 | Foreign Aid and State Administrative Capability in Africa | 183 |
8 | Governance and the Private Sector in Africa | 213 |
9 | Governance and Private Investment in Africa | 241 |
10 | Governance in the Security Sector | 263 |
Notes on Contributors | 305 | |
Index | 309 |