Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has … of diversification in Africa's economies-in contrast to Asia's success stories. Structural adjustment did not change the … manufacturing and service clusters, Africa is yet to follow East Asia in integrating with the global economy in ways that add value …

Africa. The paper places this move in historical perspective and examines the role that a particular aid agency played in … shaping the transfer of cash transfers to Africa. …

This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms …' in Africa (and beyond). The problem is that many of the reforms have been limited to these kinds of gains - producing new …

expended to develop capacity in Africa with mixed results. This paper provides a working definition of capacity that is …

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 …