Devolution and Development
Contemporary Perspectives on Developing Societies
Series Editors:
JOHN MUKUM MBAKU
Weber State University, USA
MWANGI S. KIMENYI
The University of Connecticut, USA and The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, Kenya
The Contemporary Perspectives on Developing Societies series was founded to serve as an outlet for policy relevant research. Books published in this series provide rigorous analyses of issues relevant to the peoples of the Third World and their efforts to improve their participation in the global economy.
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Devolution and Development
Governance Prospects in Decentralizing States
Edited by
Mwangi S. Kimenyi
The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis,
Nairobi, Kenya and The University of Connecticut, USA
Patrick Meagher
Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS),
University of Maryland, USA
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OMAR AZFAR is a Research Associate at the IRIS Center of the University of Maryland, College Park. He works on corruption, decentralization and other issues related to economics and governance. He studied politics and economics at Balliol College, Oxford, and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University, New York.
TUGRUL GURGUR is a graduate student in economics at the University of Maryland, College Park and a frequent consultant to the World Bank. He works on corruption and other aspects of governance.
SATU KHKNEN worked at the IRIS Center from 1992 to 2000. She is now a Senior Economist at the World Bank. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
MWANGI S. KIMENYI who holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Center for Study of Public Choice at George Mason University, USA, is the Executive Director of the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut. He has been Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Mississippi (1986-1991). He is also vice-president of the African Educational Foundation for Public Policy and Market Process. Professor Kimenyi has also worked as a World Bank consultant attached to the National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning, in Angola. He is the author of many refereed journal articles that have appeared in journals such as the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics , the Yale Journal on Regulation , the Southern Economic Journal, Public Choice and the European Journal of Political Economy. He is also author and co-author of six books. He is the co-editor (with John Mukum Mbaku) of two book series: Public Choice and Developing Countries and Contemporary Perspectives on Developing Countries , both published by Ashgate, UK. He is the recipient of several honors and awards including the Georgescu-Roegen Prize in Economics and the co-recipient (with W. Wasike) of the 2001 Global Development Network Award for Outstanding Research. Professor Kimenyi's current research focuses on institutional and economic reforms.
GEORGES KORSUN is with the Dispute Consulting/Financial Advisory Services practice of Deloitte & Touche, LLP. He has 17 years of experience in emerging markets and transition economies, specializing in the economic analysis of laws and regulations. He has led engagements on behalf of multinational and bilateral donor organizations and foreign governments in 16 countries throughout Asia, Africa, and Europe. He has extensive experience in applying the tools of economic analysis to estimating the impact of laws and regulations and in teaching and training government officials and the private sector, on a variety of topics in law and economics. He has published several articles on economic development and holds a Ph.D. in Economics.
ANTHONY LANYI is Director of the Market Institutions team at the IRIS Center, where his work has dealt with aspects of macroeconomic policy, public sector reform, and corruption. Prior to joining IRIS, Lanyi served for 26 years as an Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He received the Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969.
JOHN MUKUM MBAKU is Professor of Economics at Weber State University, Ogden, Utah and Associate Editor (Africa), Journal of Third World Studies . He is also President of the African Educational Foundation for Public Policy and Market Process, Inc. He was born in Cameroon and received the Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Georgia in 1985. He has previously taught at the University of Georgia and Kennesaw State University. His present research interests are in public choice, constitutional political economy, trade integration, intergroup relations, and institutional reforms in Africa. During 1994-1995, he served as the President of the Association of Third World Studies, Inc. He is the author of Institutions and Reform in Africa: The Public Choice Perspective (Praeger, 1997) and of Bureaucratic and Political Corruption in Africa: The Public Choice Perspective (Krieger, 2000); editor of Corruption and the Crisis of Institutional Reforms in Africa (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1998) and of Preparing Africa for the Twenty-First Century: Strategies for Peaceful Coexistence and Sustainable Development (Ashgate, 1999); coeditor (with Julius O. Ihonvbere) of The Transition to Democratic Governance in Africa: The Continuing Struggle (Praeger, 2003); (with Pita Ogaba Agbese and Mwangi S. Kimenyi) Ethnicity and Governance in the Third World (Ashgate, 2001); (with Julius O. Ihonvbere) Political Liberalization and Democratization in Africa: Lessons from Country Experiences (Praeger, 2003).
