Description
Featuring fresh empirical research, Booth and McCormicks accessible but highly original book offers both an overview of issues surrounding governance for development on the continent, whilst also offering a bold new alternative.
Chapter
Approximate exchange rates
Discovering institutions for African development
Has African development turned a corner?
Uneven progress in human development
Getting to grips with the problem
Box 0.1 Public goods and merit goods explained
How the book is organised
1 From ‘good governance’ to governance that works
Box 1.1 What is ‘good governance’?
The big debate: from ‘best practice’ to ‘good fit’
Principal–agent versus collective action frameworks
Box 1.2 The principal–agent framework
Throwing off the straitjacket of principal–agent thinking
Box 1.3 Collective action and anti-corruption
Box 1.4 The ‘free-rider problem’ explained
What’s new and what isn’t
The problem of magic bullets
Some common features and basic concepts
3 Maternal health: why is Rwanda doing better than Malawi, Niger and Uganda?
3.1 Maternal mortality ratios
3.2 Deliveries at health facility
Timeliness of emergency treatment
Policy coherence: Niger versus Rwanda
Politically enforced performance disciplines
Scope for local problem-solving
4 The politics of policy incoherence and provider indiscipline
The politics of policy incoherence
The politics of provider indiscipline
Democracy: help or hindrance?
Single-party mentalities in a multiparty setting
5 The space for local problem-solving and practical hybridity
Collective action challenges in peri-urban Malawi
West African stories about practical hybridity
Associational life and local problem-solving in Niger
Governance for development: turning the ship around
Old thinking masquerading as new thinking
A realistic take on collective action
Releasing the potential of local problem-solving
A new reform agenda: making democracy safe for development
A new aid agenda: facilitating complex change
Governance for Development in Africa
：Solving Collective Action Problems
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