Following the eight year rule of Idi Amin, then several years of war and civil war, the
Ugandan economy was in ruins by the time peace was restored in 1986. Since then Uganda …

This paper explores how political actors, processes, debates and institutions influence the
reduction and reproduction of chronic poverty in Uganda. Uganda provides a particularly …

Abstract Between 45-57% of South Africans are estimated to be engulfed by poverty. In an
attempt to identify policy instruments that could help change this status quo, the various …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the budgeting practices in the Tanzanian
Central Government. New budgeting reforms were introduced following exhortations from …

Uganda implemented public expenditure and revenue management reforms from the early
1990s with specific aims of improving budget planning and aligning aid with fiscal priorities …

Malawi and Ghana are among the numerous Sub-Saharan Africa countries that have in
recent years introduced Free Primary Education (FPE) policy as a means to realizing the …

By the late 1990s, the public investment research program in the International Food Policy
Research Institute (IFPRI) had embarked on a body of research on the returns to public …

As the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals approaches, international
organizations and donors have shown increasing interest in how institutional changes can …

Abstract The Millennium Development Goals for Education and Health stand a better chance
of mobilizing resources and galvanizing action to achieve their targets than earlier global …

Sector Wide Programmes and Poverty Reduction - ODI Working Papers 157 Page 1
Working Paper 157 SECTOR WIDE PROGRAMMES AND POVERTY REDUCTION Mick …