How wealth is made in China
As China released its 13th five year plan last week, there are key ingredients of China’s model of development from which African countries can…
Monitoring
This program is Democracy Works Foundation’s analytical back-bone. It is our think-tank. The program allows us to track and monitor challenges to democracy.
We believe it is important for an organisation engaged in development work to have a strong internal data-collection, research and analytical capacity. Why? To ensure that our development projects are based on real demand, on real concerns and needs from real people, and that our projects are based on evidence and on thorough analysis.
Our projects in our Monitoring program:
Development versus democracy: A silly debate
Genuine democracy offers greater inclusiveness and accountability in reaching developmental, growth and industrialization goals; and makes states more effective, stable and robust against internal…
Senegal rising
Senegal is aggressively positioning itself to reach emerging market status in 20 years’ time, following a decade of low economic growth rates. Last year,…
Rent-seeking is gobbling up our economy
When the politically connected keep gorging at the trough, bona fide black talent is kept back. South Africa is increasingly becoming a “rent-seeking” society…
Fixing local government depends on political will
Can South Africa’s ailing municipalities be overhauled, and if so, what should the key elements of a turnaround strategy be? Many of South Africa’s…
Policy Brief 3: on the Fault Lines of Good Governance Agendas in Zimbabwe
Executive summary A Zimbabwe with a ZANU PF super-majority in Parliament presents challenges for traditional good governance agendas. The long-term interests of the elite…
Take-off nations must move into new growth zone
A number of African countries have been notching up spectacular economic growth rates for the past few years. The problem is these countries are…
The politics of circumcision in South Africa
The deafening silence of political, traditional and cultural leaders, who have in the past positioned themselves as the guardians of African culture, on the…
South Africa must confront the roots of its xenophobic violence
The wave of deadly xenophobic attacks against foreigners of African descent that has shamed South Africa, and the astonishingly tardy response by the government,…
Nigeria’s 2015 Election – a tale of technology, timing and the transfer of power
Nigeria’s elections in 2015 were the fifth round since the transition from military to civilian rule in 1999. Out of the almost 180 million…