Posts tagged with ‘Africa House Visiting Scholar’

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Africa’s Flooding Cities: Urbanization and the Economics of the Underground

January 31, 2017 by Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa

Introduction From a low base, Africa is today the most rapidly urbanizing region in the world. This article discusses the dilemmas faced by African policymakers as they confront the economically and politically destabilizing process of urbanization, focusing on the emblematic case of flooding in Africa’s cities. As elsewhere in the world, urbanization has led to […]

The Developmental State in Africa: Back to Basics

February 18, 2016 by Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa

Introduction The role of the state in the economy has been at the centre of Africa’s development debates from the early 1960s. In those post-independence years, state control of the “commanding heights” was more the rule than the exception. National development plans laid out detailed strategies for resource mobilization and identified sectors that required special […]