Financing and the role of aid within the water sector are poorly understood. We estimate the levels of spending … evaluate 'catalytic' aid. As the world approaches universal access to improved water, aid must increasingly focus on sustaining …

services to be determined in a transparent and non-discretionary manner. This paper uses the case of the Productive Social … there are many ways in which transparency and clarity can be enhanced in relation to social benefit policy design and …

-one that empowers authentic local ownership, aligns with endogenous social and political structures, and grapples with the …

attention should be paid to the fundamentals of social science methodology, i.e., questions about concept formation, content …

expenditure allocation to the social sector and to public investment is constrained by the need to pursue fiscal discipline in … substantially lower than existing estimates for the pre-HIPC period, remains negative for the social sector, with education … debt, particularly on the social sector. Meanwhile, the additional finding that government effectiveness favours public …