IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/growch/v48y2017i1p4-21.html

Urban Governance in Africa Today: Reframing, Experiences, and Lessons

Author

Listed:
  • Franklin Obeng-Odoom

Abstract

No abstract is available for this item.

Suggested Citation

  • Franklin Obeng-Odoom, 2017. "Urban Governance in Africa Today: Reframing, Experiences, and Lessons," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 48(1), pages 4-21, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:growch:v:48:y:2017:i:1:p:4-21
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1111/grow.12164
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to

    for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Charles M. Tiebout, 1956. "A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 64(5), pages 416-416.
    2. Edgar Pieterse, 2011. "Recasting Urban Sustainability in the South," Development, Palgrave Macmillan;Society for International Deveopment, vol. 54(3), pages 309-316, September.
    3. Shenggen Fan & Xiaobo Zhang, 2008. "Public Expenditure, Growth and Poverty Reduction in Rural Uganda," African Development Review, African Development Bank, vol. 20(3), pages 466-496.
    4. Richard Stren, 2014. "Urban Service Delivery in Africa and the Role of International Assistance," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 32(s1), pages 19-37, July.
    5. Colin McFarlane, 2012. "The Entrepreneurial Slum: Civil Society, Mobility and the Co-production of Urban Development," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 49(13), pages 2795-2816, October.
    6. Gina M. S. Lambright, 2014. "Opposition Politics and Urban Service Delivery in Kampala, Uganda," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 32(s1), pages 39-60, July.
    7. Amelia Correa & Romar Correa, 2013. "Democracy over Governance," Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Center of Political Economy, vol. 33(4), pages 638-648.
    8. Alexandre Abreu, 2012. "The New Economics of Labor Migration: Beware of Neoclassicals Bearing Gifts," Forum for Social Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(1), pages 46-67, April.
    9. Segal, Paul, 2011. "Resource Rents, Redistribution, and Halving Global Poverty: The Resource Dividend," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 39(4), pages 475-489, April.
    10. Francis Fukuyama, 2013. "What Is Governance?," Working Papers 314, Center for Global Development.
    11. Robert Cameron, 2014. "Vertical Decentralisation and Urban Service Delivery in South Africa: Does Politics Matter?," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 32(s1), pages 81-100, July.
    12. Harris, John R & Todaro, Michael P, 1970. "Migration, Unemployment & Development: A Two-Sector Analysis," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 60(1), pages 126-142, March.
    13. Mueller, Dennis C, 1976. "Public Choice: A Survey," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 14(2), pages 395-433, June.
    14. Parry, Ian W.H., 2012. "Reforming the tax system to promote environmental objectives: An application to Mauritius," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 103-112.
    15. Gore, Charles, 2000. "The Rise and Fall of the Washington Consensus as a Paradigm for Developing Countries," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 28(5), pages 789-804, May.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Matamanda, Abraham R. & Mandebvu-Chaora, Chipo & Rammile, Siphokazi, 2022. "The interplay between urban agriculture and spatial (In) justice: Case study analysis of Harare, Zimbabwe," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 115(C).
    2. Godwin Boateng, Festival, 2021. "A critique of overpopulation as a cause of pathologies in African cities: Evidence from building collapse in Ghana," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 137(C).
    3. Beauclair Atadouanla Segning & Constant Fouopi Djiogap & Serge Mandiefe Piabuo & Elie Ngasseu Noupie, 2024. "Financial Inclusion and Income Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Taking Socio-Cultural Particularities into Account," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 15(2), pages 7307-7330, June.
    4. Franklin Obeng†Odoom, 2018. "Transnational Corporations and Urban Development," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 77(2), pages 447-510, March.
    5. Hans Breukelman & Harold Krikke & Ansje Löhr, 2019. "Failing Services on Urban Waste Management in Developing Countries: A Review on Symptoms, Diagnoses, and Interventions," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(24), pages 1-31, December.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Koichi Fukumura & Atsushi Yamagishi, 2020. "Minimum wage competition," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, vol. 27(6), pages 1557-1581, December.
    2. Atsede Desta Tegegne & Marianne Penker, 2016. "Determinants of rural out-migration in Ethiopia: Who stays and who goes?," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 35(34), pages 1011-1044.
    3. Jordan Rappaport & Jeffrey D. Sachs, 2001. "The U.S. as a coastal nation," Research Working Paper RWP 01-11, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
    4. Mihaela Simionescu, 2017. "Macroeconomic determinants of migration from Romania to Italy," Computational Methods in Social Sciences (CMSS), "Nicolae Titulescu" University of Bucharest, Faculty of Economic Sciences, vol. 5(1), pages 05-10, June.
    5. Michael Tribe & Andrew Sumner, 2006. "Development economics at a crossroads? Introduction to a policy arena," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 18(7), pages 957-966.
    6. Skarbek, David, 2016. "Covenants without the Sword? Comparing Prison Self-Governance Globally," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 110(4), pages 845-862, November.
    7. Stratford Douglas & Howard J. Wall, 2000. "The revealed cost of unemployment," Review, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, vol. 82(Mar), pages 1-10.
    8. Patrizio Lecca & Peter G. McGregor & J. Kim Swales & Ya Ping Yin, 2014. "Balanced Budget Multipliers For Small Open Regions Within A Federal System: Evidence From The Scottish Variable Rate Of Income Tax," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 54(3), pages 402-421, June.
    9. Changkeun Lee & Euijune Kim, 2017. "Mobility of Workers and Population between Old and New Capital Cities Using the Interregional Economic Model," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(10), pages 1-15, October.
    10. Emilie Caldeira & Martial Foucault & Gregoire Rota-Graziosi, 2015. "Decentralization in Africa and the nature of local governments’ competition: evidence from Benin," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, vol. 22(6), pages 1048-1076, December.
    11. Kari Hämäläinen & Petri Böckerman, 2004. "Regional Labor Market Dynamics, Housing, and Migration," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 44(3), pages 543-568, August.
    12. Selcuk Eren & Andrew W. Nutting, 2020. "Political Environment and US Domestic Migration," Eastern Economic Journal, Palgrave Macmillan;Eastern Economic Association, vol. 46(4), pages 525-556, October.
    13. Tobias Emonts-Holley & Alastair Greig & Patrizio Lecca & Katerina Lisenkova & Peter G McGregor & J Kim Swales, 2017. "The impact of enhanced regional fiscal autonomy: towards a scandinavian movel for Scotland," Working Papers 1707, University of Strathclyde Business School, Department of Economics.
    14. Judit Kiss, 2023. "The political economy of remittances:the case of Sub-Saharan Africa," IWE Working Papers 270, Institute for World Economics - Centre for Economic and Regional Studies.
    15. Sergio Vergalli, 2008. "The Role of Community in Migration Dynamics," LABOUR, CEIS, vol. 22(3), pages 547-567, September.
    16. Vigdor, Jacob L., 2002. "The Pursuit of Opportunity: Explaining Selective Black Migration," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 51(3), pages 391-417, May.
    17. Jayne, T.S. & Chamberlin, Jordan & Headey, Derek D., 2014. "Land pressures, the evolution of farming systems, and development strategies in Africa: A synthesis," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 48(C), pages 1-17.
    18. Manh‐Tien Bui & Thai‐Ha Le & Donghyun Park, 2023. "Impacts of fiscal decentralization on local development in Vietnam: A disaggregated analysis," Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 31(1), pages 3-31, January.
    19. Mahreen Mahmud & Tareena Musaddiq & Farah Said, 2010. "Internal Migration Patterns in Pakistan—The Case for Fiscal Decentralisation," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 49(4), pages 593-607.
    20. Lu, Jie, 2015. "Varieties of Governance in China: Migration and Institutional Change in Chinese Villages," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780199378746.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:growch:v:48:y:2017:i:1:p:4-21. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0017-4815 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.