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The making (and unmaking) of Uganda’s ethnic-based decentralization programmeUganda’s post-colony continues to be haunted by the colonial logic of ethnicity. This logic has mapped the country’s post-colonial political landscape as a terrain on which spirals of ethnic-based conflicts and violence are the norm...
Ethnic inequality Decentralization ColonialismWorking Paper
Governance and COVID-19 in BoliviaOn 10 March 2020, the Bolivian government identified two COVID-19 cases in Bolivians returning from Italy. The national government responded swiftly and sent the country into one of the world’s strictest lockdowns on 22 March 2020...
Bolivia COVID-19 SubnationalWorkshop
Subnational governance in Ghana – does decentralization improve democratic outcomes?UNU-WIDER researchers in The state and statebuilding in the Global South — international and local interactions project attend an authors’ workshop at the London School of Economics . ( Download programme ). Rachel Gisselquist, Daniel...
Background Note
Review of sub-national institutional performance in GhanaIntroduction The literature on the concept, measurement, causes, and correlates of sub-national institutional governance is not new. From the seminal work of Putnam et al. (1993) to recent attempts by Iddawela et al...
Decentralized governance Decentralization GovernanceWorking Paper
Decentralization reforms in Mozambique: The role of institutions in the definition of resultsWith the introduction of the economic reforms in the late 1980s, the opening up of the political arena and the end of the civil war in the early 1990s, the decentralization process began in Mozambique...
Decentralization Decentralized governance InstitutionsProject
The state and statebuilding in the Global South – international and local interactions
Theme: Transforming states
Building State Capabilities State capacity Aid effectivenessJournal Article
Educational Assistance and Education Quality in Indonesia: The Role of DecentralizationPart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Decentralization Education transfer Education qualityBook Chapter
Macroeconomic Perspective on DevelopmentFrom the book: Asian Transformations
Unemployment Labour market StateWorking Paper
A macroeconomic perspective on Asian developmentMacroeconomic strategies and policies have differed significantly among Asian countries over the last fifty years, and yet some common issues recur despite their immense diversity in inherited historical initial conditions, differences in political s...
Unemployment Labour market StateWorking Paper
Educational assistance and education quality in Indonesia: The role of decentralizationWe examine the evolution of educational assistance in Indonesia, following two decades of government decentralization, and its effect on education quality...
Decentralization Education transfer Education qualityWorking Paper
Fiscal decentralization and the shadow economyIn this paper we use the new Government Revenue Dataset to analyse fiscal decentralization...
Taxation Decentralization Fiscal decentralizationWorking Paper
Political agency and public healthcare: Evidence from IndiaThe development of institutions of self-governance in India, and specifically the 2005 reform—the National Rural Health Mission that introduced village health and sanitation committees—provide a unique opportunity to study the effects of ...
Decentralization Direct democracy ImmunizationWorkshop
Challenges for Development Research: Decentralisation, the Transfer of Land, Impact Assessment and Design of Development Programmes, Institutional Failures, and using Agriculture for DevelopmentWorkshop hosted by: UNU-WIDER and Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), Ministry of Planning and Investment, Vietnam
