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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 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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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477490
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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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Evaluating rural roads programmes: A general equilibrium analysis
Bell, Clive - 2023
The structure employed is a small open economy, with one city and a rural hinterland, two traded goods, a transport sector, two specific factors, and mobile labour. A socially profitable programme will promote not only internal, but also external trade. Theory and numerical examples indicate...
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Delivering good aid in hard places: The Yemen Social Fund for Development approach
Al-Iryani, Lamis; De Janvry, Alain; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - 2013
The Yemen Social Fund for Development (SFD) was established in 1997 with the support of the international community, and in particular the World Bank, to combat national poverty and reinforce the limited existing social safety net. Since its inception, SFD has been widely viewed as successful in...
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Prioritizing rural investments in Africa: A hybrid evaluation approach applied to Uganda
Pauw, Karl; Thurlow, James - 2013
Prioritizing public investments requires information on relative returns that are difficult to derive from disparate evaluation studies. This paper presents a 'hybrid' approach that combines ex post evaluation data with an economy-wide model for experimenting ex ante with alternative investment...
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