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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. |