From the mid-1940s, strategies and policies of state-directed development empowered the
state to transform a set of relationships among labor and domestic and international capital …

This article reviews the literature on the political economy of agricultural and food policy in
sub-Saharan Africa. In doing so, it first presents a conceptual framework highlighting that …

Governments establish land administration systems to formally acknowledge and protect
property rights, restrictions, and responsibilities (RRR). The protection and recording of …

Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of city-making, cities around the world are not
merging into indistinguishable duplicates of one another. In fact, as the world urbanizes …

If you have picked up this book, there is a good chance that you care about climate change.
Whether you are a politician, an activist, a scientist or, like most of us, just a concerned …

This article examines the political economy of economic policy advice. It offers a framework
for assessing how to maximise the economic development impact of advice, allowing for the …

The institutions that govern how we distribute resources, protect rights, and accord status are
widely recognised as important for progressive development outcomes. Political settlements …

This article uses political settlements analysis to help illuminate trends in poverty reduction
in Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda and Tanzania. Drawing on data from the ESID Political …

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African cities are critical to the continent's prospects of achieving environmentally
sustainable forms of prosperity and poverty reduction. Can Africa cities help generate …