David Booth

Director of APPP/Research Fellow, Politics and Governance

David Booth leads the Africa Power and Politics Programme (APPP), a five-year consortium research programme dedicated to "discovering institutions that work for poor people”. APPP brings together research organisations and think-tanks in France, Ghana, Niger, Uganda, the UK and the USA. It is undertaking research in nineteen African countries and is supported by DFID and Irish Aid.

David Booth’s other work currently focuses on the political economy of governance-improvement and aid in sub-Saharan Africa and, to a lesser extent, Latin America. Between 2000 and 2009 David was the editor of Development Policy Review.

Formerly a university academic at Hull and Swansea, David has been a Research Fellow at ODI since 1998.

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Bilateral cooperation and local power dynamics: the case of Rwanda

Publication - Research reports and studies - 4 October 2013

Frederick Golooba-Mutebi and David Booth

Commissioned by the Swedish Embassy in Kigali as an input to its cooperation strategy for the next five to seven years, this paper is a focused contribution to understanding power dynamics in Rwanda. It is based on an extended study of relationships and change processes within the government and political leadership in Kigali.

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Unblocking results: using aid to address governance constraints in public service delivery

Publication - Research reports and studies - 29 May 2013

Heidi Tavakoli, Rebecca Simson and Helen Tilley with David Booth

How can aid better support developing country governments to delivery public services? This report proposes a new way to deliver aid that strengthens incentives for performance in the public sector.

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Using aid to address governance constraints in service delivery

Publication - Research reports and studies - 31 March 2013

Heidi Tavakoli, Rebecca Simson and Helen Tilley with David Booth

This study examines how aid can facilitate government efforts to address governance constraints in public service delivery, and in particular what types of aid-funded activities and enabling factors seem to allow for this in practice.

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Facilitating development: an arm’s length approach to aid

Publication - Discussion papers - 31 March 2013

David Booth

This Discussion Note sets out a case for greater use of ‘arm’s length’ forms of aid building on some of the implications of recent research.

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Political economy of agricultural policy in Africa

Event - Conference - 18 - 20 March 2013

This conference brings together key figures from research, politics, donor organisations and civil society to explore what motivates African governments to invest in different kinds of agricultural development, the influence of domestic politics, external donors and pan-African networks have as well as examining how successful civil society can be in pushing for more pro-poor agricultural policy in Africa. David Booth, will present research findings exploring policy and governance in Africa’s economic transformation.

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