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From the Editor’s Desk (September 2012)
Tony Addison Mid-September finds UNU-WIDER very busy preparing for our big conference on climate change and development policy that takes place later...
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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...
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Reform of the Malawian Public SectorSince the early 1990s, Malawi has tried to undertake economic reforms, including the restructuring of the public sector, even as it embraced democratic reforms. Paucity of human and financial resources has made the process difficult and drawn out...
Research Brief
Democracy in BeninPresident Yayi Boni of Benin was one of the eight African leaders invited to attended the May 2012 G8 summit at Camp David to discuss the issue of food security. This is perhaps an indication that the country is doing something right, at least from...
Research Brief
Africa’s Democratic TrajectoryDevelopment 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. Development aid also influenced democratic transition indirectly...
Research 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. The bulk of donor funding to Zambia is channelled to the executive through budget support, this has...
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Recent Distributive Changes in Latin AmericaPart of Book Falling Inequality in Latin America
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The Unintended Consequences of Foreign Aid in TanzaniaTanzania has been a relative success story in terms of African political reform. In the early 1990s Tanzania shifted from a one-party to a multiparty system, allowed greater freedoms for the press and civil society, and in 1995 held its first...
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Donor Assistance and Political Reform in TanzaniaPart of Book Democratic Trajectories in Africa
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Measuring Government Performance in Public Opinion Surveys in AfricaIn examining the study of government performance, this paper asks whether field experiments can improve the explanatory precision of results generated by public opinion surveys. Survey research on basic health and education services sub-Saharan...
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Aiding Government Effectiveness in Developing CountriesPart of Journal Special Issue Aiding Government Effectiveness in Developing Countries
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Strategies of Subversion in Vertically-Divided ContextsPart of Journal Special Issue Urban Governance and Service Delivery in sub-Saharan Africa
Book Chapter
Foreign Aid and Democratic Consolidation in ZambiaPart of Book Democratic Trajectories in Africa
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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. This situation reflects what has...
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Governance and Policy in AfricaThe recent emphasis on governance in Africa is unique in that it was initiated by donors and not by domestic leaders under pressure from their own constituencies. Thus while many countries have embraced the market economy and liberalized their...
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Realizing the Right to Food in South AsiaPart of Book Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure
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Do the Awakening Giants Have Feet of Clay?
It's imperative to demolish myths around the economic achievements of China and India and get a better sense of the real challenges. The author of the...
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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. The reasons for aid failure are legion but mostly relate to highly...
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Overcoming the Limits of Institutional Reform in UgandaThis paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms actively and consistently for three decades now, and has produced many laws, processes and structures that are ‘best in class’ in Africa...
Book Chapter
Botswana as a Role Model for Country SuccessPart of Book Achieving Development Success
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Monitoring and Evaluation Reform under Changing Aid ModalitiesPart of Book Foreign Aid for Development
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Foreign Aid and Democratization in Africa
Danielle Resnick In just a little over a month, policy makers will converge in Busan, South Korea for the fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness...
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Patterns of Rent-Extraction and Deployment in Developing CountriesPart of Book Advancing Development
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Privatization and Economic Strategy in MozambiquePart of Book From Conflict to Recovery in Africa
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Bilateral Donors' Aid Allocation DecisionsPart of Journal Special Issue Aid Allocations and Development Financing
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Botswana as a Role Model for Country SuccessI argue that the economic success of Botswana can be explained by the historical development of its institutions which is related to the trajectory of the Tswana states over the past 200 years. These institutions created a much more stable and...
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Bilateral Donors' Aid Allocation DecisionsThe present paper adds to the already large existing literature on aid distribution as it runs an equation on bilateral aid allocation on a very rich dataset, covering 20 years (1980-99), 22 donors and 137 recipients, which permits a three...
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