Rethinking Development Challenges for Public Policy

Insights from Contemporary Africa

K. Hanson, G. Kararach, T. Shaw, K. Hanson, G. Kararach, T. Shaw

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780230393288
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230393271
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Environment & Energy Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Covers topical issues for Africa's development, economics and politics of climate change, water management, public service delivery, and delivering aid. The authors argue that these issues should be included in the post-MDG paradigm and add an important voice to recent moves by academics and practitioners to engage with each other.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Tables, Maps, Figures and Boxes
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction: Africas Second Half-Century: Enhancing Capacity for Sustainable Human Development and Human Security
• 1 Africa's Leadership Deficit: Exploring Pathways to Good Governance and Transformative Politics
• 2 Africa's Leadership Malaise and the Crisis of Governance
• 3 Improving the Effectiveness of the Public Sector in Africa through the Quality of Public Administration
• 4 The Public Sector and Development in Africa: The Case for a Developmental Public Service
• 5 Towards Best-Practice in Transboundary Water Governance in Africa: Exploring the Policy and Institutional Dimensions of Conflict and Cooperation over Water
• 6 Africa's Water Crisis: The Miracle and the Mirage: What Policy Mix, Strategies and Institutional Steps are Vital?
• 7 Rethinking Development in Africa through Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises (SMEs)
• 8 Climate-Resilient Development Financing for Africa: A Prospective Evaluation and Strategic Framework for Action
• 9 Conclusion: Prospects for ACBF and African Human Development/Security
• Index