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"Embedded" assistance: Finn Church aid's secondment in Somalia

Lepistö, Rauli S.; Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Ojala, Jussi - 2015

Donors face distinct challenges in operating in fragile states and supporting the building of state capacity. This paper explores one type of assistance - the 'embedding' of highly-skilled staff members within local government agencies - through a unique case study of Finn Church Aid's...

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The education sector in Mozambique: From access to epistemic quality in primary education

Mário, Mouzinho; Monjane, Celso Marcos; Santos, Ricardo - 2020

From the early days of national independence in 1975, the central aim of the educational policy in Mozambique has been to ensure that all school-age children have access to school and can remain there until they have completed their basic education. In the pursuit of this aim, the extension of...

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Donors for tax morale: Evidence from 34 African countries

Belmonte, Alessandro; Bove, Vincenzo; Di Salvatore, Jessica - 2021

Do aid projects affect citizens' motivation to pay taxes? We address this question by combining fine-grained data on aid projects from AidData and survey data from the Afrobarometer for 34 African countries. We first employ a subnational analysis, where the treatment varies by administrative...

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The pandemic and the state: Interrogating capacity and response to COVID-19 in West Bengal

Mahmood, Zaad; Chakraborty, Achin - 2022

COVID-19 has brought to the fore the issue of state preparedness in mitigating health emergencies. This paper problematizes the received wisdom of greater state capacity in mitigating the severity of the pandemic. Based on a case study of West Bengal, a subnational state of India, it shows that...

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Trust as state capacity: The political economy of compliance

Besley, Timothy; Dray, Sacha - 2022

This paper explores the link between trust in government, policy-making, and compliance. It focuses on a specific channel whereby citizens who are convinced that a policy is worthwhile are more motivated to comply with it. This in turn reduces the government's cost of implementing a policy and...

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Digging deeper into the state-democracy nexus: The role of civic participation in fostering impartial bureaucracy

Vaccaro, Andrea - 2023

attributes of democracy and state capacity-namely, civic participation and impartial bureaucracy-my study provides new evidence …The growing body of research on the relationship between the state and democracy has remained inconclusive both in … conceptualization and measurement of democracy and state capacity. Drawing on this argument, my study takes an original approach to the …

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The efficiency of states and cities: Is there a case for public land leasing and sales to finance India's cities?

Sridhar, Kala Seetharam - 2011

In this study an attempt has been made to assess the potential of land as a municipal financing tool in four Indian cities, to enable better public service delivery and attainment of the MDGs. The institutional arrangements for land use are fragmented in India's cities between the urban...

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The National Solidarity Programme: Assessing the effects of community-driven development in Afghanistan

Beath, Andrew; Christia, Fotini; Enikolopov, Ruben - 2013

This paper describes the results of an impact evaluation of the National Solidarity Programme, a community-driven development programme in Afghanistan that created democratic village councils and funded small-scale development projects. Using a randomized controlled trial across 500 villages, we...

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Evaluation of non-governmental development organizations

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2014

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are now widely used in development economics. However, their use is often resisted by non-governmental development organizations. The objections they raise differ between the three types of activities of such non-governmental organizations (NGOs): capacity...

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Shadow prices for a small open economy under uncertainty: Which expected values are valid

Bell, Clive - 2017

This paper re-examines the validity of using expected values to evaluate the social profitability of public investments under uncertainty. Departing from the usual assumption of an aggregate good, the setting is a small open economy that faces stochastic world prices for tradable goods and...

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