Going with the Grain in African Development?

Kelsall, Tim

doi:10.1111/j.1467-7679.2008.00427.x

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“…25 Instructively, approaches that are imported from a broad concept of good practice may not work unless there is a serious effort to adapt them to local circumstances, embedded in traditions and motivating forces of family, ethnicity and religion. 27 More than anything else, this theory reinforces the debates on policy learning and transfer processes, which received considerable academic attention in the last decade. 28 -30 Policy learning and policy transfer focus on how people learn and under what circumstances policy transfer is possible, what the role of international institutions and policy entrepreneurs has been, and at which speed policies are diffused.…”

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An assessment of the effectiveness of the Nigerian 2004 pension reform policy

Ubhenin

2012

Pensions Int J

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. He worked as a Legislative Offi cer of the Edo State House of Assembly for nearly a decade. He then earned a postgraduate degree in public administration at University of Benin. In 2007, he joined the Ambrose Alli University, where he currently teaches various subjects in public administration. He has attended academic conferences and other development programmes in continental Africa, Europe and North America. His research interests include confl ict resolution, human capacity, public policy and social research methods. He is the author of several scholarly essays such as ' Climate change and violent confl icts in Nigeria: Human needs and relative deprivation theories ' (2012) in the eighth volume of the Hexagon Book Series on Human, Environmental Security and Peace, made possible by a research grant of the Cluster of Excellence (EXC177) on Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction (CliSAP) at the University of Hamburg that supported the conference and the German Science Foundation (DFG) that funded the book. ABSTRACT This article assesses the effectiveness of the Nigerian 2004 pension reform policy.Whereas the old pension system was seen as vulnerable, inequitable and ineffi cient, there was also paucity of policy and academic literature before the pension reform. Interestingly, the pension reform policy is beginning to gain attention in the literature regarding policy learning and transfer. The emerging literature, notwithstanding no systematic attempt, has been made to investigate the effectiveness of the policy, which was amended in April 2011. This article fi lls the gap by assessing published literature and other media sources. The article notes the achievements of the new pension scheme inspired by the Chilean model of 1981 in comparison with the old scheme. This is indicated by the development of a strong pillar for the Nigerian economy, and the growing confi dence and compliance in the system. But worryingly, the new scheme is yet to cover enough grounds, including the workers in the informal economy as well as address the grafting in the industry. The article recommends the strengthening of institutions of governance to walk the path of maximum benefi t for the Nigerian workers. Further research efforts are also needed on how to formalize the informal economy, how the policy is affected by privatization and the global fi nancial crisis, and how to address the padding of ghost pensioners.

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Section: The Theorymentioning

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An assessment of the effectiveness of the Nigerian 2004 pension reform policy

Ubhenin

2012

Pensions Int J

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“…Given the history of easy access to land for farmers and pastoralists in much of Africa, some students of African politics (Hyden, 2008;Kelsall, 2008) urge serious rethinking of orthodox analytical approaches and policy advice that require going "against the grain" of long-enduring African practices whose persistence must have a deeply rational basis. This perspective requires a good grasp of the underpinnings of relationship-based systems that put a high premium on loyalty.…”

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Political Parties in Business: Rent Seekers, Developmentalists, or Both?

Abegaz

2013

Journal of Development Studies

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Ruling party-owned business (Parbus) empires arise from a total capture, by an insurgent vanguard party, of key institutions in fragile market economies. The Parbus can be a market-defying form of grand corruption or a market-conforming innovation for party-led growth. This paper offers a theoretical framework buttressed by two analytical country studies. The impact of Parbus on wealth creation and distribution explained by four regime characteristics: insecurity, organizational capacity, ideology, and centralization. Three possible evolutionary paths are identified: paragonist favoring transition to an open system, parasitic leading to poverty-tyranny trap, and mutualist or uneasy coexistence of state, party, and private actors.

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“…We observe that there are several tools that provide information directly from village to ministry, while SEMA operates between villagers and district, and as such is going with the grain as meant in [16,25], or, in other words, follows the patterns of local organization.…”

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Monitoring Rural Water Points in Tanzania with Mobile Phones: The Evolution of the SEMA App

Lemmens

Lungo

Georgiadou

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IJGI

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Development professionals have deployed several mobile phone-based ICT (Information and Communications Technology) platforms in the global South for improving water, health, and education services. In this paper, we focus on a mobile phone-based ICT platform for water services, called Sensors, Empowerment and Accountability in Tanzania (SEMA), developed by our team in the context of an action research project in Tanzania. Water users in villages and district water engineers in local governments may use it to monitor the functionality status of rural water points in the country. We describe the current architecture of the platform's front-end (the SEMA app) and back-end and elaborate on its deployment in four districts in Tanzania. To conceptualize the evolution of the SEMA app, we use three concepts: transaction-intensiveness, discretion and crowdsourcing. The SEMA app effectively digitized only transaction-intensive tasks in the information flow between water users in villages and district water engineers. Further, it resolved two tensions over time: the tension over what to report (by decreasing the discretion of reporters) and over who should report (by constraining the reporting "crowd").

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Going with the Grain in African Development?

Cited by 109 publications

References 58 publications

An assessment of the effectiveness of the Nigerian 2004 pension reform policy

An assessment of the effectiveness of the Nigerian 2004 pension reform policy

Political Parties in Business: Rent Seekers, Developmentalists, or Both?

Monitoring Rural Water Points in Tanzania with Mobile Phones: The Evolution of the SEMA App

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