Looking at Public Policy in Africa

What does it mean to speak of public action and public policy in Africa and more broadly in countries “under an aid regime” where international aid, its institutions and its funding play a structuring role? Does looking at development policies and interventions long-studied by the socio-anthropology of development through the lens of public policy provide new insight? Titled “The Making of Public Action in Countries ‘Under an Aid Regime’”, APAD’s 12th international conference aimed to debate..