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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Achieving sustainable governance transitions

Projects - November 2011 to November 2015

Practical approaches and guidance for development actors supporting public goods and service provision in transition contexts

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Can aid become more relevant to ‘getting things done’?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 24 October 2011

'The better governance low-income Africa needs is about getting better leadership...not just a matter of more transparency and greater accountability.'

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Aid effectiveness: bringing country ownership (and politics) back in

Publication - Discussion papers - 30 August 2011

ODI Working Papers 336

David Booth

This ODI Working Paper discusses how international actors can support the emergence of country-owned development efforts.

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Political economy analysis and growth diagnostics

Projects - June 2011 to July 2011

In preparation for long term strategic planning, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs commissioned ODI to provide training on political economy analysis and growth diagnostics for country programme planning.

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Time to avoid the dictatorship v democracy debate in Africa

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 4 May 2011

In this Guardian Poverty Matters blog, David Booth discusses active alternatives to the good governance agenda than Western donors are currently pushing

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