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The Negotiated Politics of Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa

Hickey, Sam - 2018

Social assistance programmes proliferated and expanded across much of the global South from the mid-1990s. Within Africa there has been enormous variation in this trend: some governments expanded coverage dramatically while others resisted this. The existing literature on social assistance, or...

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Foreign aid and decentralization: Policies for autonomy and programming for responsiveness

Dickovick, J. Tyler - 2013

Donor support for decentralization comes in two main categories: recommendations at the policy level and project … activities at the programming level. At the policy level, donors promote decentralization by recommending greater autonomy for … subnational actors. That is, they advocate for reforms that increase the extent (or 'quantity') of decentralization. At the …

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Donor assistance and political reform in Tanzania

Tripp, Aili Mari - 2012

accountability in decentralization and in public goods provision. …

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Verticle decentralization and urban service delivery in South Africa: Does politics matter?

Cameron, Robert - 2012

This study examines the role of politics on decentralization and service delivery in South Africa, with a specific … focus on Johannesburg and Cape Town. The research delineates how national decentralization has affected service delivery …

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Pro-poor service delivery and social identity: An experimental investigation

Mueller, Ulrike - 2012

India addressed the requirement for pro-poor service delivery in rural regions by introducing decentralization and …

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State capability and prospects for close co-ordination: Considerations for industrial policy in Africa

Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2015

Recent research highlights the considerable potential of industrial policy to support structural transformation in sub-Saharan Africa. Given the importance of the state in industrial policy, this paper considers the implications for these discussions of recent work on state fragility. It argues...

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Does HIV/AIDS matter for economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa?

Mveyange, Anthony; Skovsgaard, Christian; Lesner, Tine - 2015

Estimating the impact of HIV/AIDS epidemic on economic growth is challenging because of endogeneity concerns. In this paper, we use novel data on male circumcision and distance from the first HIV outbreak as instrumental variables for the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 241 regions across 25 countries in...

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Determinants of foreign aid in family planning: How relevant is the Mexico City Policy?

Asiedu, Elizabeth; Nanivazo, Malokele; Nkusu, Mwanza - 2013

The Mexico City Policy (MCP) prohibits the United States Agency for International Development from providing aid to international non-governmental organizations that provide abortion-related services. This paper employs a panel data of 151 developing countries over the period of 1988 - 2010, to...

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Multiple pathways to gender-sensitive budget support in the education sector: Analysing the effectiveness of sex-disaggregated indicators in performance assessment frameworks and g...

Holvoet, Nathalie; Inberg, Liesbeth - 2013

In order to correct for the initial gender blindness of the Paris Declaration and related aid modalities as general and sector budget support, it has been proposed to integrate a gender dimension into budget support entry points. This paper studies the effectiveness of (joint) gender working...

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Foreign aid and sustainable fisheries management in sub-Saharan Africa

Akpalu, Wisdom - 2013

The fisheries sector in sub-Saharan Africa has benefitted from high and increasing amounts of foreign aid for over four decades. In the 1990s when evidence emerged that most stocks were overcapitalized and overfished, the effectiveness of fisheries development aid, particularly those directed at...

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