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Anti-corruption policy-making, discretionary power, and institutional quality: An experimental analysisWe analyse policy makers’ incentives to fight corruption under different institutional qualities...
Government accountability Corruption Public policy (Law)Journal Article
Business Cycle Fluctuations, Large Macroeconomic Shocks, and Development AidPart of Journal Special Issue Aid Policy and the Macroeconomic Management of Aid
Business cycles Economic assistance and foreign aid Government accountabilityJournal Article
Aiding Government Effectiveness in Developing CountriesPart of Journal Special Issue Aiding Government Effectiveness in Developing Countries
Economic assistance and foreign aid Government accountability Local governmentJournal Article
Strategies of Subversion in Vertically-Divided Contexts: Decentralisation and Urban Service Delivery in SenegalPart of Journal Special Issue Urban Governance and Service Delivery in sub-Saharan Africa
Government accountability Political science UrbanizationWorking Paper
Can One Retell a Mozambican Reform Story Through Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation?Many public sector reforms in developing countries fail to make governments more functional. This is typically because reforms introduce new solutions that do not fit the contexts in which they are being placed...
Government accountability Government spending policyBook Chapter
Recent Distributive Changes in Latin America: An OverviewFrom the book: Falling Inequality in Latin America
Equality and inequality Government accountability Income distributionResearch Brief
Zambia – Foreign Aid and Democratic ConsolidationDemocracy assistance and donor support have been key in fostering a new type of civil society, dominated by NGOs, the legal community and churches...
Democracy Economic assistance and foreign aid Government accountabilityResearch Brief
Africa’s Democratic Trajectory: The Impact of Development Aid and Democracy AssistanceDevelopment aid was effective in promoting democratic transitions during the 1990s in African countries beset by economic crisis domestic discontent, and a high dependency on aid...
Democratization Economic assistance and foreign aid Government accountabilityWorking Paper
Overcoming the Limits of Institutional Reform in UgandaThis paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa...
Administrative law Government accountability Institutional economicsWorking Paper
Foreign Aid and the Failure of State Building in Haiti Under the Duvaliers, Aristide, Préval, and MartellyAfter receiving at least US$20 billion in aid for reconstruction and development over the past 60 years, Haiti has been and remains a fragile state, one of the worse globally...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Elite (Social sciences) Government accountabilityBlog
Democracy, Transparency, and Parliamentary Broadcasting
22 August 2013 Patrick Gregory ‘Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done’...
Democracy Government accountability Justice, Administration ofBlog
Good Governance: Is it about Appearance or Action?
27 May 2013 Matt Andrews, Harvard Kennedy School A growing governance agenda and post-2015 ambitions The governance agenda has grown rapidly in the international development community...
Globalization Government accountability International agenciesBlog
Aid to the Social Sectors – Achievements and Mistakes
22 March 2013 The share of aid to social sectors has grown over the past 20 years. Evidence shows clear links between support to these sectors and poverty reduction, economic growth, and human development. But what works, and why?...
Children Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic growthBlog
From the Editor's Desk (March 2013)
Tony Addison This month saw UNU-WIDER in Stockholm for the ReCom results meeting on ‘aid and the social sectors’, which took place at Sida on 13 March...
Decision making (Finance, Public) Econometric models (Economic development) AgricultureWorking Paper
Measuring Government Performance in Public Opinion Surveys in Africa: Towards Experiments?In examining the study of government performance, this paper asks whether field experiments can improve the explanatory precision of results generated by public opinion surveys...
Government accountability Public administration Public goods