They are the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Canadian International Development xii The Policy Paradox in Africa Agency (CIDA), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European Union and the Ford Foundation. [...] STRENGTHENING ECONOMIC RESEARCH CAPACITY FOR POLICY- MAKING IN AFRICA The poor policy environment of the SAP years and the need to build a critical mass of qualified economists to spearhead economic research that can effectively feed the policy-making process led to the creation of a number of initiatives in Africa in the 1990s, including AERC, the ACBF, SISERA, and the Global Development Network [...] Drawing on the experience of the Southern and Eastern Africa Policy Research Network (SEAPREN), they examine the potential of the policy-making process on the regional level and the role that research networks play in this process. [...] It is reasonable to assume that the undesirable outcomes of many poli- cies in SSA can be attributed to the excessive attention paid by the IFIs to the first three stages of the linear model of policy-making process, and the subsequent deployment of their leverage to secure the adoption of their preferred policy options over whose implementation they have only limited influence. [...] The iterative interaction model of policy-making The iterative interaction model assumes that as a policy initiative moves through the stages in the linear decision-making process; several actors are involved and their actions determine the fate of the policy at any of the stages.
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 338.96
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- f------
- ISBN
- 9781552503355
- LCCN
- HC800
- LCCN Item number
- P633 2007eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xii, 307 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00602213 (OCoLC)226375953 (CaOOCEL)413322
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 6
- Preface 8
- Acknowledgements 12
- PART I: ASKING QUESTIONS, FINDING ANSWERS—IMPROVING AFRICAN RESEARCH TO IMPROVE AFRICAN POLICY-MAKING 14
- Introduction 16
- Chapter One: Levelling the playing field—strengthening the role of African research in policy-making in and for sub-Saharan Africa 32
- Chapter Two: Economists fuel public debate in Madagascar—the MADIO experience 50
- Chapter Three: Bridging research and policy: the RAPID approach 84
- Chapter Four: Context matters—the influence of IDRC-supported research on policy processes 106
- Chapter Five: From myth to reality—building capacity for economic policy research in Africa 130
- Chapter Six: Joining forces in policy research networks for policy-making in Africa—the SEAPREN experience 144
- PART II: EVERY COUNTRY HAS A STORY TO TELL—ECONOMIC RESEARCH AND POLICY-MAKING THROUGH NATIONAL EXPERIENCES IN AFRICA 160
- Chapter Seven: Strengthening research and analytical support for trade policy-making in Africa: the case of Nigeria 162
- Chapter Eight: An analysis of the research–policy nexus in Nigeria 178
- Chapter Nine: The nine commandments—a South African case study identifies roles for applied research institutions 198
- Chapter Ten: Where local research and public policy meet: experiences from Senegal 214
- Chapter Eleven: Research and policy-making—the unique experience of NEPRU in Namibia 232
- Chapter Twelve: Influencing development policies through research: the Kenyan experience 252
- Chapter Thirteen: The new social contract between economic research and decision-makers: lessons from Côte d’Ivoire 276
- Conclusion: An emerging continental consensus 290
- Acronyms 296
- Contributors 302
- Index 310
- A 310
- B 310
- C 311
- D 311
- E 312
- F 312
- G 312
- H 313
- I 313
- J 313
- K 314
- L 314
- M 315
- N 315
- O 317
- P 317
- R 318
- S 318
- T 319
- U 319
- V 320
- W 320
- Y 320
- Z 320
