Over the past decade, Kenya's traditional model of local, community finance and management of schools has been crowded out from two directions. First, the Kenyan government has expanded its role in public education, through free provision of primary and, more recently, secondary education....

The recent political economy literature on institutions for growth views low and ineffective spending on service delivery sectors as a symptom of the underlying institutional environment. But if institutions are the outcome of decisions by policymakers and serve the purpose of benefitting some...

There is little disagreement amongst development economists that investments in human capital—specifically education and health—are crucial for social and economic development of nations. It is widely accepted that nations cannot raise the quality of life of their citizens without...

While developing countries have prioritised primary education, higher education seems to have been neglected. The paper suggests that the low emphasis placed on higher education is because there has been a general under-appreciation of the contribution of higher education to development. The...

Ethnicity is an important institution and one that impacts on the quality of governance. This paper focuses on the behaviour of ethnic groups and specifically on their impact on the provision of public goods. The paper shows that ethnic heterogeneity results in under-provision of non-excludable...

As the economies of most Sub-Saharan countries stagnated, especially in the early 1980s, it became necessary to reform and restructure these economies. The financial sector received a major part of this attention and so did infrastructure, where programmes of deregulation and privatisation with...