Political Settlement Dynamics and the Emergence and Decline of Bureaucratic Pockets of Effectiveness in Ghana
In: ESID Working Paper No 173. Manchester: Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, The University of Manchester
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In: ESID Working Paper No 173. Manchester: Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, The University of Manchester
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In: Critical social policy: a journal of theory and practice in social welfare, Band 41, Heft 2, S. 270-293
ISSN: 1461-703X
Ghana's Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) cash transfer programme has been widely characterised as 'home grown'. This article challenges such accounts of the LEAP by showing how donors used their financial muscle to shape the LEAP both at the level of programme adoption and implementation. However, the extent to which donor interests and ideas influenced the programme's design and implementation depended on the degree to which such interests were aligned with those of domestic political elites. While it was donors who first pushed cash transfers on the agenda of the Ghanaian government, electoral calculus took centre stage in driving the programme's subsequent expansion and institutionalisation. The article suggests the need to move beyond the donor-driven versus state-led type of arguments to explore the complex ways in which transnational factors and the formal and informal aspects of domestic politics interact to produce different levels and types of commitment to social protection in Africa.
In: ESID Working Paper No 112. Manchester: Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, The University of Manchester
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In: ESID Working Paper No 107. Manchester: Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, The University of Manchester
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In: Ghana journal of development studies, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 83
ISSN: 0855-6768
In: The European journal of development research: journal of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), Band 29, Heft 1, S. 213-229
ISSN: 0957-8811
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In: ESID Working Paper No. 78. Manchester: Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre
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In: The European journal of development research, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 213-229
ISSN: 1743-9728
In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 386-403
ISSN: 1099-1328
In: Development: journal of the Society for International Development (SID), Band 57, Heft 3-4, S. 488-496
ISSN: 1461-7072
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In: ESID Working Paper No 29
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In: Elgar handbooks in development
In: Appiah, D., Abdulai, AG. Conceptualizing and Measuring State Effectiveness as Impartiality. Public Organiz Rev (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-022-00681-2
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In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 121, Heft 484, S. e25-e53
ISSN: 1468-2621