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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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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Ghana election: a beacon of hope?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 21 December 2012

Once again an election in Ghana seems to have gone off well. The country’s famed two-party electoral system appears in reasonable health. Incumbent president John Mahama has been voted back in, giving the National Democratic Congress (the Jerry Rawlings vehicle) a second term. Nana Akufo-Addo, the candidate of the New Patriotic Party (which backed two-time president John Kufuor), has been defeated despite attracting nearly 48% of votes.

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A smarter approach to governance in Africa

Event - Round-table - 23 October 2012 15:00 - 17:00 (GMT+00)

This event launches the Africa Power and Politics Programme (APPP) synthesis report: 'Development as a collective action problem: Addressing the real challenges of African governance'. The report brings together key research from APPP's programme of work led by ODI over a five year period with teams in Benin, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mali, Cameroon, Ghana, Malawi, Niger, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

This event provides a first opportunity for readers of the report to get to grips with the APPP proposals and consider their implications.

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Synthesis report - Development as a collective action problem: adressing the real challenges of African governance

Publication - Research reports and studies - 23 October 2012

David Booth

This newly-published synthesis report brings to a close the work of Africa Power and Politics (APPP) a five-year programme led by ODI with research teams in 15 African countries.

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