Africa Power and Politics
Africa Power and Politics (APPP) is identifying ways of exercising power and doing politics that work for development. It is questioning conventional ideas about what ‘good governance’ should mean in the context of sub-Saharan Africa.APPP brings together researchers in France, Ghana, Niger, Uganda, the UK and the USA. More
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APPP Research Report03 'Peri-urban governance and the delivery of public goods in Malawi 2009-11' by Diana Cammack January 2012
APPP Policy Brief 4, La délivrance des bien publics: Des solutions locales face aux défaillances de l'Etat (exemples nigériens), Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, janvier 2012
APPP Policy Brief 4, Providing public goods: Local responses to policy incoherence and state failure in Niger, Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, January 2012
APPP Working Paper 20, 'Cotton Sector Reform in Mali: Explaining the Puzzles', Renata Serra, Jan 2012
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