David Booth

Director of APPP/Research Fellow, Politics and Governance

d.booth@odi.org.uk

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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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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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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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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Don't build stuff - get people talking: a roundtable discussion of the practical implications of the African Power and Politics

Event - Round-table - 10 January 2013 13:00 - 15:00 (GMT+00)

This roundtable brought together academics and practitioners to debate the practical implications of the Africa Power and Politics Programme (APPP) synthesis report.

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Applied political economy analysis: Five practical issues

Publication - Toolkits - 8 January 2013

Daniel Harris and David Booth

This guidance note draws on more than a decade of practical experience with applied political economy in development work and aims to provide basic guidance for newcomers to the field.

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