Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "Africa"
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Building New Agricultural Universities in Africa
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)There is an urgent need to create a new generation of innovation-oriented agricultural that efficiently bring together agricultural research, training, commercialization, and extension. This paper calls for upgrading the ... -
Civil Society, Public Action and Accountability in Africa
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2011)This paper examines the potential role of civil society action in increasing state accountability for development in Sub-Saharan Africa. It further develops the analytical framework of the World Development Report 2004 on ... -
Deals Versus Rules: Policy Implementation Uncertainty and Why Firms Hate It
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)Firms in Africa report "regulatory and economic policy uncertainty" as a top constraint to their growth. We argue that often firms in Africa do not cope with policy rules, rather they face deals; firm-specific policy actions ... -
Isomorphism and the Limits to African Public Financial Management Reform
(2009)Many reform results fall below expectations in the development arena, especially in the public sector. Do the reforms just need more time to work better, or should we adjust our expectations? In addressing this question, ... -
Mauritius: African Success Story
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2010)What explains the economic success of Mauritius, a top performer among African countries? How did it develop a manufacturing sector and how has it managed to respond well to new external shocks? This paper draws on the ... -
Reforming Public Financial Management in Africa
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)Successful public sector reform is rare in Africa. Over twelve years, Ethiopia transformed its public financial management (PFM) to international standards and now has the third best system in Africa that is managing the ... -
Rethinking the Millennium Development Goals for Africa
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)The global economy and especially its poorest members, face a perfect storm. The crisis has been created by a Global LIE: leverage that is unfathomable, institutions that are discredited, and, experts who are uncertain ... -
Scientific Wealth in Middle East and North Africa: Productivity, Indigeneity, and Specialty in 1981–2013
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Several developing countries seek to build knowledge-based economies by attempting to expand scientific research capabilities. Characterizing the state and direction of progress in this arena is challenging but important. ... -
Why it Worked: Critical Success Factors of a Financial Reform Project in Africa
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)Little is written about the critical success factors that make or break a project implementing a public financial management reform in Africa. Based on the twelve year experience of Harvard’s DSA project which transformed ...