| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 377 pages) : illustrations |
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WBI development studies |
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WBI development studies.
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| Contents |
Governance and economic development in Africa : meeting the challenge of capacity building / Brian Levy -- Comparative experience with public service reform in Ghana, Tanzania, and Zambia / Mike Stevens and Stefanie Teggemann -- Building state capacity in Africa : learning from performance and results / Poul Engberg-Pedersen and Brian Levy -- Reforming pay policy : techniques, sequencing, and politics / Kithinji Kiragu, Rwekaza Mukandala, and Denyse Morin -- Cabinets, budgets, and poverty : political commitment to poverty reduction / Harry Garnett and William Plowden -- Public expenditure accountability in Africa : progress, lessons, and challenges / Bill Dorotinsky and Rob Floyd -- Emerging legislatures : institutions of horizontal accountability / Joel D. Barkan, Ladipo Adamolekun, and Yongmei Zhou with Mouftaou Laleye and Njuguna Ng'ethe -- Process interventions versus structural reforms : institutionalizing anticorruption reforms in Africa / Sahr Kpundeh -- The politics of decentralization in Africa : a comparative analysis / Stephen N. Ndegwa and Brian Levy -- Education decentralization in Africa : a review of recent policy and practice / Alec Ian Gershberg and Donald R. Winkler -- Reflections / Dele Olowu, Joel D. Barkan, and Njuguna Ng'ethe |
| Summary |
"Building State Capacity in Africa draws on the experiences of public sector reform implementation in more than a dozen African countries to address such topics as the relationship between governance and economic development, public expenditure and accountability, anticorruption reform, decentralization, political structures, and the delivery of public services."--Jacket |
| Notes |
"Jointly prepared by the World Bank Institute and the Africa Region Vice Presidency of the World Bank." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Infrastructure (Economics) -- Africa
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General.
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Economic history
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Economic policy
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Infrastructure (Economics)
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Politics and government
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Social policy
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Innenpolitik
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Staat
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Administration publique.
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Décentralisation gouvernementale.
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Développement des capacités (Développement international)
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Développement économique.
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Fonction publique.
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Gouvernance.
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Politique économique.
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Politique sociale.
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Réforme.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001573
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Africa -- Economic policy
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Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1960-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001552
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Africa -- Social policy
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Africa
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Subsaharisches Afrika
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Afrique.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Levy, Brian, 1954-
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Kpundeh, Sahr John.
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| LC no. |
2004058478 |
| ISBN |
1417550066 |
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9781417550067 |
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0821360019 |
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9780821360019 |
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1280085061 |
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9781280085062 |
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9786610085064 |
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6610085064 |
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