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Human rights indicators in development : an introduction
McInerney-Lankford, Siobhán Alice - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393553
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Human rights and climate change : a review of the international legal dimensions
McInerney-Lankford, Siobhán Alice - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393612
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Social rights and economics : claims to health care and education in developing dountries
Gauri, Varun - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523429
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Human rights and climate change : a review of the international legal dimensions
McInerney-Lankford, Siobhán Alice - 2011
The study includes a conceptual overview of the link between climate impacts and human rights, focused on the relevant legal obligations underpinning the international law frameworks governing both human rights and climate change. As such it makes a significant contribution to the global debate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550433
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Decentralization, democracy, and development : recent experience from Sierra Leone
Zhou, Yongmei (contributor) - 2009
This publication addresses the question of whether political, fiscal, and administrative decentralization improves government effectiveness and the debate on whether it is a viable and desirable state-building strategy for post-conflict countries. The publication is a collection of eight papers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393387
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Political institutions and human development : Does democracy fulfil its 'constructive' and 'instrumental' role?
Vollmer, Sebastian - 2009
performance of democracy is rather independent of the circumstances. However, democracy leads to more redistribution in favor of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394112
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Democracy and reforms
Amin, Mohammad - 2009
"The authors use a sample of 147 countries to investigate the link between democracy and reforms. Democracy may be … conducive to reforms, because politicians have the incentive to embrace growth-enhancing reforms to win elections. By contrast … economic institutions. The results provide robust support for the claim that democracy is good for growth-enhancing reforms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394129
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Democracy, credibility, and clientelism
Keefer, Philip - 2005
"Keefer and Vlaicu demonstrate that sharply different policy choices across democracies can be explained as a consequence of differences in the ability of political competitors to make credible pre-electoral commitments to voters. Politicians can overcome their credibility deficit in two ways....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522726
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Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor
Keefer, Philip - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523273
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Democratic Governance in Mexico : Beyond State Capture and Social Polarization
World Bank - 2012
Mexico is in the midst of a transition. The defeat of the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) in the 2000 presidential election marked a watershed, and with the repeated defeat of the PRI in the 2006 election, the era of the single?party dominance appears to be long gone. The demise of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553163