, especially in Africa, the role of foreign aid in the future should be distinctly different. While aid will be required to …

remains highly uneven across the country. Most studies of service provision in Africa assume that politicians will target … provision from the start. Rather than assuming that ethnicity underlies service distribution in Africa, we argue that … councillors and their mayor helps to account for the variation in service provision across South Africa's municipalities. We test …

for Africa's political economies. It asks if there is such a thing as a homogenous and universal middle class, what its …

change in Africa. Africa's development partners have devoted too few resources and too little attention to two critical …