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Is the bride too beautiful? Safe motherhood in rural Rwanda

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This report identifies the institutional arrangements which have enabled Rwanda to achieve significant improvement in ensuring safe motherhood for growing numbers of women in rural Rwanda.

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Moushumi Biswas on March 15, 2012

Support to local problem-solving: Lessons from peri-urban Malawi

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Malawi faces severe economic and political constraints in the form of widespread shortages of fuel and foreign exchange, and political instability. The major bottlenecks that undermine the adequate provision of public goods explain, in large part, the poor conditions in which people in peri-urban settlements live. An emerging conclusion from research by the Africa Power and Politics Programme (APPP) in several African countries is that such bottlenecks are seldom addressed effectively by more...

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D C on February 16, 2012

Improving maternal health when resources are limited: Safe motherhood in rural Rwanda

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Over the past decade, Rwanda has managed to overcome many of the critical bottlenecks to make impressive progress on maternal health. This policy brief documents the progress being made and indicates that service delivery bottlenecks can be overcome without additional material resources.

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Moushumi Biswas on February 26, 2012

Peri-urban governance and the delivery of public goods in Malawi 2009-2011

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The report presents new findings from participant observation and key informant interviews carried out between May 2010 and February 2011 in Ndirande, a peri-urban township within Blantyre city, and several other sites in Malawi, and builds on information gathered throughout Malawi in 2008-09 on public goods delivery and town chiefs. It identifies eight factors that affect the (non)delivery of these four public goods in peri-urban Malawi and outlines lessons learned from the research that may more...

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Moushumi Biswas on January 24, 2012

Improving maternal health when resources are limited- Safe motherhood in Rwanda

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Despite significant improvements in its maternal health indicators, sub-Saharan Africa remains one of the most dangerous regions in the world in which to give birth. Ensuring safe motherhood for rural African women requires a package of goods and services, provided by a number of different actors. But every part of this package can face delivery challenges. Typical bottlenecks at the local point of delivery include poor quality health care and professional standards, low staff morale and more...

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Moushumi Biswas on February 07, 2012

Providing public goods: Local responses to policy incoherence and state failure in Niger

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In Niger, as in most African countries, the implementation of public policies poses enormous challenges and there is no guarantee that the state will deliver public goods and services. Local measures to plug the gaps are usually informal, with all the strengths and weaknesses that informality implies. Some, however, are more institutionalised. These may face opposition from the state, which may block local solutions without providing effective alternatives. Drawing on extensive field research, more...

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Moushumi Biswas on January 15, 2012

Developmental patrimonialism? The case of Rwanda

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In the modal pattern of governance for development in sub-Saharan Africa, political competition fuels unbridled corruption which undermines the interest and ability of the state to provide the public goods necessary for transformative, poverty-reducing development. APPP research has identified a type of deviation from the modal pattern which is more realistic than the standard ‘good governance’ alternative, which we are calling developmental (neo)patrimonialism. This paper considers whether more...

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D C on March 28, 2011

Rethinking business and politics in Ethiopia: The role of EFFORT, the endowment fund for the rehabilitation of Tigray

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This research report presents part of what we hope will be a wider study of economic development and private enterprise in Ethiopia. It explores the role of the so-called ‘endowment-owned companies’ in order to learn lessons about the nature and potential of the relationship between business and politics in Ethiopia. These endowments were originally established with resources donated on behalf of the various fronts of the incoming Ethiopian ruling party, and a number of senior EPRDF politicians more...

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D C on September 04, 2011

Malawi’s political settlement in crisis

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This paper explains the origins of Malawi’s mid-2011 political-economic crisis and subsequent events. While it traces some themes back to before the democratic transition of 1994, it highlights the actions that led up to the July 20-21 mass demonstrations which resulted in the death of 20 people; that contributed to the current national economic downturn; and that have fuelled on-going civil rights abuses, keeping national politics on the boil. It also looks towards to the 2014 elections.

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Moushumi Biswas on November 14, 2011

Developmental patrimonialism? Rethinking business and politics in Africa

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In this new policy brief, Tim Kelsall explains how Africa Power and Politics (APPP) research into seven historical and six contemporary African cases shows that neo-patrimonialism is not always as economically damaging as the development community believes

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Moushumi Biswas on June 20, 2011

The state and accessible justice in Africa: is Ghana unique?

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In this policy brief, Richard Crook considers what lessons may be learned from Ghana in developing policies to promote more accessible justice in Africa. Throughout Africa, the institutions of state justice are struggling to overcome problems of overload and delay, perceptions of corruption and popular distrust. Current policy prescriptions to improve access to justice are dominated by the belief that non-state, customary or informal ‘alternative dispute resolution’ (ADR) systems provide the more...

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Moushumi Biswas on November 16, 2011

Governance for development in Africa:building on what works

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Should the governance of poor developing countries mimic what works in advanced capitalist democracies? Of course not. Yet for 20 years ‘good governance’ has meant exactly that. Millions of dollars have been spent on programmes to make private enterprise work in Africa as it does in the US, elections work as they do in Sweden, audit authorities as in Germany and civil society campaigns as in the Netherlands – with results that have been mixed at best.

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Moushumi Biswas on November 16, 2011

“The Choice” - a story about political leadership and paths to development in Africa

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This allegorical story by Neema Kwamamlaka is set in a richly endowed country “south of the Great Desert and east of the Impenetrable Forest” ... somewhere on the coast of East Africa perhaps. It tells of a King who for many years muddles along with policies and token policies that leave most of his people in poverty because this is the easiest way for him to keep his internal and external supporters happy and stay in power. His main external supporters, the Great Kings, fail to understand that more...

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Adit Rahman on December 23, 2010

Popular concepts of justice and fairness in Ghana

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The provision of effective, legitimate and accessible justice is one of the most fundamental public goods expected from a well-governed state. In this paper compares the legitimacy of three state or state-supported Ghanaian dispute settlement institutions: the Magistrate’s Courts, the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and the land dispute committees of the neo-traditional Customary Land Secretariats (CLSs). It was found that popular beliefs and expectations are more...

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Adit Rahman on December 23, 2010

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