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Humanity over economy: biopolitical responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in GhanaThis study posits that pandemics should be regarded as complex, open-ended phenomena that cannot be reduced to biology and epidemiology...
COVID-19 Biopolitics State effectivenessWorking Paper
A fiscal approach to the social contract in sub-Saharan African countries: Looking for opportunities to strengthen trust in government and tax compliance by analysing citizens' perception of governanceThe COVID-19 pandemic showed that many developing countries could not respond effectively to crises due to their limited capacity to diversify their social protection responses...
Tax compliance Governance Sub-Saharan AfricaWorking Paper
Rebel governance during COVID-19: Describing and explaining armed groups’ response to the pandemic in the Middle EastAs COVID-19 spread worldwide, armed groups in control of territory were called to address the health emergency. However, our knowledge in this regard is limited...
Armed conflict COVID-19 Middle East and North AfricaNews
Senior Research Fellow Patricia Justino appointed as Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER
Conflict Trust Governance Working Paper
Rebel governance and political participationRebels, militias, and criminal groups all govern civilians. Governing strategies adopted by armed groups during civil war likely influence citizens’ post-conflict political participation, with consequences for democratic politics...
Armed conflict Governance Wartime governanceWorking 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 SubnationalJournal Article
Clientelism and governancePart of Journal Special Issue Clientelist Politics and Development
vote-buying Clientelism PoliticsPanel discussion
UNU-WIDER at ISA 2022 Annual ConventionUNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow Patricia Justino and Research Associate Rute Martins Caeiro join in a virtual panel discussion Trust and Governance in Unstable Democracies on 29 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30 (UTC-5) as part of the International Studies...
Journal Article
On the impact of inequality on growth, human development, and governanceInequality is a major international development challenge. This is so from an ethical perspective and because greater inequality is perceived to be detrimental to key socioeconomic and political outcomes...
Inequality Growth HealthWorking Paper
Local governance quality and law compliance: The case of Mozambican firmsUsing panel data of manufacturing enterprises in Mozambique between 2012 and 2017, we investigate how changes in perceived quality of governance are related to firms’ law compliance...
Governance Transparency LawWorking 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
Clientelism and governanceUnlike much of the growing literature on political clientelism, this short paper contains mainly the author’s general reflections on the broad issues of governance (or mis-governance including corruption), democracy, and state capacity that cli...
vote-buying Clientelism PoliticsProject workshop
3rd Annual workshop: Inequality and governance in unstable democracies – the mediating role of trust
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
On the impact of inequality on growth, human development, and governanceCountering recent rises in many countries of inequality in income and wealth is widely recognized as a major development challenge...
Inequality Growth HealthBlog
Why should I care about economic growth?
Director of UNU-WIDER, Professor Kunal Sen is a world leading expert in development economics and led on ESID ’s research into economic growth...
Governance State capacity Structural transformation