Reforming Africa's Institutions

by Kayizzi-Mugerwa, Steve

• ISBN13: 9789280810820
• ISBN10: 9280810820
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: United Nations Univ

Summary

This publication considers the impact of reforms undertaken by sub-Saharan African countries in recent years on governance systems and the public sector. Issues discussed include: reform ownership; incentive structures and performance in the public sector in Kenya, Mozambique, India and Malawi; the implementation of privatisation reforms; institutional development and insolvency law; and the movement towards political pluralism.

Author Biography

Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa is now attached to the IMF's Independent Evaluation Office in Washington, DC. He has undertaken research on many African countries and published widely on issues related to growth, economic adjustment, and poverty reduction

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. x
List of contributors	p. xi
List of figures	p. xiv
List of tables	p. xv
List of abbreviations	p. xviii
Introduction	p. 1
The political economy of reform ownership
Governance and policy in Africa: Recent experiences	p. 15
Owning economic reforms: A comparative study of Ghana and Tanzania	p. 30
Do donors matter for institutional reform in Africa?	p. 54
Zambian policy making and the donor community in the 1990s	p. 77
Incentive structures and performance in the public service
Economic and institutional reforms in French-speaking West Africa: Impact on efficiency and growth	p. 105
Reform of the Malawian public sector: Incentives, governance and accountability	p. 127
Incentive structure and efficiency in the Kenyan civil service	p. 149
Incentive structure, civil service efficiency and the hidden economy in Nigeria	p. 170
The Mozambican civil service: Incentives, reforms and performance	p. 199
Developing institutional capabilities
Privatization in sub-Saharan Africa: On factors affecting implementation	p. 227
Decentralization, local bureaucracies and service delivery in Uganda	p. 254
Institutional development in Africa: The case of insolvency law	p. 277
Non-formal institutions, informal economies and the politics of inclusion	p. 301
The relevance of the Nordic model for African development	p. 322
Concluding remarks	p. 342
Index	p. 347
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