WRITING & ANALYSIS

Field Notes from Nineteen Years

Long-form practitioner analysis published on mdbreform.com. All articles draw on primary source documents and firsthand field experience.

ETHIOPIA PFM

The PBS programme moved $1bn+ to 900 woredas. IBEX made it trackable. This essay examines what that system actually did at the point of service delivery.

IFMIS IN AFRICA

A longitudinal analysis. 22% strict project success rate. Near-zero correlation between governance spending and PEFA improvement. Ethiopia as the outlier counter-model.

DEVELOPMENT POLICY

11,628 prior actions, 1,551 evaluated operations. The gap between legal compliance and functional institutional change.

IMF ANALYSIS

~45 AFR recipients. Six country case studies. A comparative red-flag matrix.

NIGERIA

The Azura-Edo and Calabar IPPs. The advisory-creditor conflict. Sovereign risk transfer.

PEFA REFORM

A policy note arguing against climate and gender modules before core PFM controls are functional.

LIBERIA PFM

Three practitioner essays on post-conflict PFM reconstruction, 2003–2006.

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