Contents
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Figures
Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Governance and policy in Africa: Recent experience
2 Owning economic reforms: A comparative study of Ghana and Tanzania
3 Do donors matter for institutional reform in Africa?
4 Zambian policy making and the donor community in the 1990s
5 Economic and institutional reforms in French- speaking West Africa: Impact on efficiency and growt
6 Reform of the Malawian public sector: Incentives, governance and accountability
7 Incentive structure and ef ciency in the Kenyan civil service
8 Incentive structure, civil service ef ciency and the hidden economy in Nigeria
9 The Mozambican civil service: Incentives, reforms and performance
10 Privatization in sub- Saharan Africa: On factors affecting implementation
11 Decentralization, local bureaucracies and service delivery in Uganda
12 Institutional development in Africa: The case of insolvency law
13 Non- formal institutions, informal economies and the politics of inclusion
14 The relevance of the Nordic model for African development
Concluding remarks