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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Aid, institutions and governance: what have we learned?

Event - Public event - 25 January 2011 13:00 - 14:30 (GMT+00)

As its contribution to ODI at 50, Development Policy Review (DPR) has produced a special supplement containing reprints of nine key articles published over the last decade. The collection reflects some of the best of the new thinking about institutions, governance and aid. This meeting, co-hosted by the APPP, will launch the DPR supplement and extend the debate about what we know, what gaps remain and what is emerging from current research.

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Development Policy Review, Theme Issue: Aid, Institutions and Governance - What Have We Learned

Publication - Journal articles or issues - 1 January 2011

Development Policy Review vol.29, supplement 1

David Booth

As part of ODI’s 50th anniversary celebrations, DPR has republished nine key articles in the field of aid, institutions and governance, with an introductory essay by former Editor David Booth.

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Aid, institutions and governance: what have we learned?

Publication - Journal articles or issues - 1 January 2011

Development Policy Review vol. 29, supplement 1

David Booth

This article introduces a theme issue which celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Overseas Development Institute by reprinting nine key DPR articles on aid, institutions and governance.

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Turning Governance Upside Down

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 1 January 2011

This article reviews An Upside Down View of Governance, which summarises five years of research by the Centre for the Future State - one of the best of the development research centres funded by the UK Department for International Development.

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Maastricht debates - Cities in Africa

Event - Seminar - 14 December 2010 19:30 - 21:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

In order for city life to be tolerable and safe, especially for the urban poor, a number of regulation and service activities need to be undertaken by someone, and tend to be undertaken by no one – with the rich paying for their own arrangements privately. In Europe, we tend to assume that democratic city government will take care of this, but there are many reasons for supposing that the immediate problems of African cities are unlikely to be solved by that route. So what is to be done? This event, with David Booth, Director Africa Power and Politics Programme, Overseas Development Institute, will investigate.

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