Overview
- Innovative and comprehensive quantitative approach to modeling and evaluating participative policy processes in African countries
- Allows for a comprehensive growth-poverty analysis through an integrated modeling approach
- Provides special insights into the main economic and political drivers of CAADP-reform processes in African countries
Part of the book series: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development (AAESPD)
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The book examines the methodological challenges in analyzing the effectiveness of development policies. It presents a selection of tools and methodologies that can help tackle the complexities of which policies work best and why, and how they can be implemented effectively given the political and economic framework conditions of a country. The contributions in this book offer a continuation of the ongoing evidence-based debate on the role of agriculture and participatory policy processes in reducing poverty. They develop and apply quantitative political economy approaches by integrating quantitative models of political decision-making into existing economic modeling tools, allowing a more comprehensive growth-poverty analysis. The book addresses not only scholars who use quantitative policy modeling and evaluation techniques in their empirical or theoretical research, but also technical experts,including policy makers and analysts from stakeholder organizations, involved in formulating and implementing policies to reduce poverty and to increase economic and social well-being in African countries.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Modeling Economic Policies
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Modeling Policy Processes
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Concluding Remarks
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ousmane Badiane is the Director for Africa at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), based in Washington, D.C. He oversees the Institute’s regional offices for West and Centra
l Africa in Dakar, Senegal, and for Eastern and Southern Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He received a Master’s Degree and PhD in agricultural economics from the University of Kiel in Germany. His awards include being selected as a 2015 Yara Prize Laureate, a Doctoral Degree Honoris Causa from the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa and induction as Distinguished Fellow of the African Association of Agricultural Economics.Eva Krampe is an agricultural sector expert at the European Investment Bank. She studied agricultural economics and earned a PhD in agricultural economics at the University of Kiel. Her main areas of specialization are Africa’s Agricultural Policy, Applied Political Economy and Economic Analysis of Agricultural Investment Projects.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Development Policies and Policy Processes in Africa
Book Subtitle: Modeling and Evaluation
Editors: Christian Henning, Ousmane Badiane, Eva Krampe
Series Title: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60714-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60713-9Published: 18 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86918-6Published: 14 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60714-6Published: 05 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2198-7262
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7270
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 351
Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Development Economics, Development Policy, African Economics, Development Aid, Agricultural Economics
Industry Sectors: Finance, Business & Banking