Wale Adebanwi
Rhodes Professor of Race Relations
The economic, social and political governance challenges for sub-Saharan Africa remain immense. Despite progress in some health and education indicators, Africa needs more inclusive growth, jobs for its fast-growing population, and better social services and infrastructure.
Our work is organized around three themes.
First, we will look in-depth at Ethiopia’s attempts at industrialisation and contrast it with experiences in other countries. Second, we will study the changing political economy of infrastructure and service delivery: how changing and at times maturing politics affect their impact, as in Ghana and Kenya and a number of other contrasting cases. Finally, we study the current political and economic responses to the post-2014 reality for resource-rich economies, such as Angola and Nigeria, and what this will mean for the quest for economic diversification and the lessening of resource dependence in these economies.
The specific research questions we tackle are:
With this programme, we aim to discover what is holding back job creation and economic transformation, and the delivery of quality social services and infrastructure. We want to understand how better economic, social, and political governance may unlock this, and will focus on specific cases and countries with lessons for the rest of the continent.
On hippos, tigers, pancakes and soufflés: trends and challenges for African governance
Professor Stefan Dercon, Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance, discusses some of the recent and likely demographic, economics and political trends across Africa, as well as how across countries challenges are being handled.
By no means conclusive, the talk aims to give a flavour of the risks and opportunities for change across the continent, exploring some of the key research and policy questions at stake.
Rhodes Professor of Race Relations
Professor of Economic Policy
Professor of the International Politics of Africa
Professor of Development Economics
Professor of Development Economics
Professor of International Development
Research and Policy Officer
Associate Professor in Public Management
Senior Research Officer
Assistant Professor, University of Bristol
Departmental Lecturer in African Anthropology
Senior Research Fellow
Associate Professor in Public Policy
Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of Africa
Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy
Senior Lecturer in Development Economics