The quantitative development of Rwanda's agriculture in recent years has been widely
regarded as a success story. However, a simple statistical analysis of publicly available data …

In the past decade, many governments around the world have strayed neoliberal
prescriptions to get closer to the East Asian governance model–the developmental state …

Less than thirty years after civil war and genocide, the government of post-conflict Rwanda
has achieved a remarkable level of state-building and economic growth. This thesis uses a …

Scholars have typically explained the developmental performance of late-late developers
through the analytical lens applied to East Asian developmental states, a lens that focuses …

This article explains variations in citizens' well-being among non-democratic developing
countries by disaggregating non-democracies and focusing on the role of party strength. The …

The objective of this paper is to understand the RRA's relatively high, and yet uneven,
performance. While the organization is effective regarding overall revenue collection, and …

The paper analyses pockets of effectiveness (PoEs)–public organisations that function better
than the rest of the state–in Rwanda and their contribution to state building. It does so by …

In a survey conducted in Rwanda by the Pockets of Effectiveness project, the Central Bank
was listed as among the top-performing government organisations in the country. This paper …

This paper examines the factors that have shaped the ability of Kenya's National Treasury
(Ministry of Finance) to deliver on its mandate since the early 1990s. It identifies a key role …

The international community has so far failed to halt the loss of biodiversity including falling
short of all Aichi targets the UN had set for 2020. Drawing the lessons from the previous …