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Journal Article
– An empirical analysis
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a spate of studies showing a close connection between inequitable access to health care, welfare services and adverse outcomes from the pandemic. Others have argued that democratic governments have generally failed relative to more autocratic ones, simply because...
Working Paper
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– Assessing the relative effectiveness of egalitarian governance and healthcare system capacity on the COVID-19 pandemic
Scholars of public health typically focus on societal equity for explaining public health outcomes. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a spate of studies showing a tight connection between inequitable access to healthcare, welfare services, and adverse outcomes from the pandemic. Others have...
Research Brief
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In Mali aid has had a positive impact on some areas of democratic consolidation such as strengthening the economy and civil society, election support and conflict resolution. Three significant structural problems were not addressed properly by donors; weak institutions of accountability, regional...
Book Chapter
From the book:
Democratic Trajectories in Africa
– Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City
According to UN-Habitat, Latin America is the most urbanized region in the world. Over three quarters of its population resided in cities at the turn of the twenty-first century, a proportion that is estimated will rise to almost 85 per cent by 2030. By comparison, just over 36 and 37 per cent of...
Working Paper
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– The Donors and Mali’s Democracy
Mali long seemed a model, low-income democracy. Yet, in a few short weeks in early 2012, more than half of the territory came under the military control of an Islamist secessionist movement, and a military coup deposed the democratically-elected government in the capital. Given the substantial...
– Multidimensional Perspectives
The 20th century was one of rapid urbanization—that is urbanization by urban growth, and by rural-to-urban migration. By the dawn of the 21st century, for the first time in human history, more than half of the world’s population was living in urban areas. Demographic forecasts for the decades ahead...
Book Chapter
– Migration and Urbanization in Asia
From the book:
Urbanization and Development in Asia
Book Chapter
From the book:
Urbanization and Development in Asia
Book Chapter
– Negotiating Closed Doors and Windows of Opportunity
From the book:
Urbanization and Development in Asia
Book Chapter
– How Targeting has Left Out the Poor in Peripheral Cities in the Philippines
From the book:
Urbanization and Development in Asia
Book Chapter
– Improving Diagnosis and the Need to Shift the Understanding of Urban Inequality from Fixed Enclaves to Mobile Gradients
From the book:
Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century
Book Chapter
– Participation, Politics, and Urban Segregation in Latin America
From the book:
Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century
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