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.