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Public Accounts Committees In Eastern And Southern Africa. A Comparative Analysis, Riccardo Pelizzo, Abel Kinyondo
Public Accounts Committees In Eastern And Southern Africa. A Comparative Analysis, Riccardo Pelizzo, Abel Kinyondo
riccardo pelizzo
This article provides the first and most comprehensive analysis of Public Accounts Committees (PACs) from Eastern and Southern Africa building on the work of McGee, Jacobs, Stapenhurst, and Staddon. By analyzing an original set of data, this article shows that PACs in these two regions are bigger, have more staff members, and are more likely to be chaired by opposition Members of Parliament than they have in other countries and regions. Furthermore, the data show that Eastern and Southern African PACs are more active than their counterparts elsewhere. However, lack of political will and limits to the range of powers …
Public Accounts Committees In Eastern Africa. A Comparative Analysis, Riccardo Pelizzo, Abel Kinyondo
Public Accounts Committees In Eastern Africa. A Comparative Analysis, Riccardo Pelizzo, Abel Kinyondo
riccardo pelizzo
The paper presents a comparative analysis of the organization, the powers, the functioning of public accounts committees in Eastern Africa. The paper highlights the exceptionalism Eastern African PACs. The paper in fact discovers and reports an inverse relationship between the amount of activities performed and the range of powers with which Eastern African PACs are endowed
Report On The Public Accounts Committee In Tanzania, Riccardo Pelizzo
Report On The Public Accounts Committee In Tanzania, Riccardo Pelizzo
riccardo pelizzo
the report analyzes the organization, the powers, the functioning and the activities performed by the public accounts committee from Tanzania
Report On The Public Accounts Committee In Uganda, Riccardo Pelizzo
Report On The Public Accounts Committee In Uganda, Riccardo Pelizzo
riccardo pelizzo
the report analyzes the structural characteristics, the powers, the organization, the functioning and the activities of the PAC from Uganda
Structured Transformation And Natural Resources Management In Africa, William G. Moseley
Structured Transformation And Natural Resources Management In Africa, William G. Moseley
William G Moseley
This chapter examines recent trends in African resource-based economies, explores the risks of an economy overly focused on primary production, reviews the theoretical literature on the reasons countries get stuck as peripheral producers, and interrogates past approaches that have been undertaken to pursue economic diversification (failed and successful). In sum, the chapter seeks to answer a few fundamental questions. Given the recent commodity boom, and soaring economic growth rates in many African countries, why should there be cause for concern? How fragile is economic growth based on primary production? Do natural resources intrinsically impede economic diversification? Under what conditions can …