Fixing African Economies: Policy Research for Development
Centered around the lessons of USAID's Equity and Growth Through Economic Research (EAGER) project, which sponsored research projects throughout Africa between 1996 and 2001, nine papers examine the contribution of research to policy making in Mali, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Ghana, and Uganda. Presented by Phillips (president of consulting firm International Business Initiatives) and Seck (executive director, Secretariat for Institutional Support for Economic Research in Africa), the...
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Acknowledgments1Fixing African Economies: The Research-Policy Nexus12Ghana: Promoting Accountability and Transparency in Government Behavior253Nigeria: Understanding Attitudes Toward Democracy and Markets654Kenya: Policy Research and Policy Reform955Tanzania: Policy Research and the Mining Boom1176Madagascar: Using Policy Research in Formulating Tax Policy1297Ghana and Uganda: Considering Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies1558South Africa: Policy-Oriented Research on Labor Markets and Poverty1839Conclusions209List of Acronyms227References229The Contributors237Index243About the Book249
