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The saga and limits of public financial management: The Mozambican caseAt independence in 1975, the Frelimo government took over public administration from the colonial system and started to transform it...
Public finance management Mozambique ReformsWorking Paper
Clientelistic politics and pro-poor targeting: Rules versus discretionary budgetsPast research has provided evidence of clientelistic politics in delivery of programme benefits by local governments, or gram panchayats (GPs), and manipulation of GP programme budgets by legislators and elected officials at upper tiers in West Benga...
Clientelism Governance TargetingWorking Paper
Can integrated infrastructure investment plans contribute to more effective public spending?: The case of MozambiqueAll countries, especially developing countries with limited financial resources, face difficult decisions in prioritizing public funds for investment projects in order to achieve strategic public goals in the face of multiple demands...
Infrastructure (Economics) Development strategy BudgetResearch Brief
Aid to Mozambique: A Trade-Off Between Governance and Democracy?In Mozambique donors have shifted focus from project aid to budget support in an effort to reform the public sector and ‘justice, legality and public order’...
Budget Democracy Economic assistance and foreign aidBlog
From the Editor's Desk (December 2013)
10 December 2013 Tony Addison Our November-December Angle comes amid intense activity on our ReCom—Research and Communication on Foreign Aid—programme, which is drawing to a close...
Agriculture Aggregation operators BudgetBlog
The Complicated Effects of Foreign Aid on African Democracy
13 December 2013 Annett Victorero The effects of development aid are not straightforward, and often have unintended consequences...
Budget Democracy Economic assistance and foreign aidBlog
From the Editor’s Desk (October 2013) 31 October 2013 Tony Addison October finds Angle in New York, for our event on ‘Fragility and Aid–What Works?’ at the Permanent Mission of Germany to the UN...
Agriculture Budget ChildrenBook
Democratic Trajectories in Africa: Unravelling the Impact of Foreign AidDespite impressive economic growth rates over the last decade, foreign aid still plays a significant role in Africa's political economies...
Budget Democracy Economic assistance and foreign aidBlog
Getting into a State?
30 October 2013 Roger Williamson The UNU-WIDER meeting held last week in New York on the topic of fragility and aid argued forcefully that you cannot ‘fix’ failed states as you would a broken window...
Agriculture Budget Conflict managementBook Chapter
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Limits of Foreign Aid on Malawi's Democratic ConsolidationFrom the book: Democratic Trajectories in Africa
Budget Democracy Economic assistance and foreign aidBook Chapter
The Changing Dynamics of Foreign Aid and Democracy in MozambiqueFrom the book: Democratic Trajectories in Africa
Budget Democracy Economic assistance and foreign aidResearch Brief
Democratic Consolidation and Donor Activity in MalawiOn April 7 2012, following the death of President Mutharika, Joyce Banda was sworn in as Malawi's new president...
Budget Democracy Economic assistance and foreign aidBlog
Lessons from Africa's Democratic Upheavals
Danielle Resnick During the last month, three democracies in Africa witnessed incumbent presidents exit office in very different ways...
Budget Democracy Economic assistance and foreign aidBlog
From the Editor's Desk (March 2012) Tony Addison With the ice floes now gone from the harbour outside the UNU-WIDER building, and with the snow replaced by an icy hail, there is a glimmer of better days to come...
Agriculture Budget NationalismResearch Brief
How Aid Supplies from Donor Countries Respond to Economic CrisisThe strong interdependent relationship between the developed and developing countries made itself visible again with the recent economic downturn...
Econometric models (Finance) Budget Economic assistance and foreign aidWorking Paper
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Limits of Foreign Aid on Malawi’s Democratic ConsolidationSince the era of one-party rule, Malawi’s relationship with the donor community has proved erratic and contentious...
Budget Democracy Economic assistance and foreign aid