The central aim of this text is to show the impact institutions have on the performance of the health sector in … Mozambique. The text shows that of the social determinants of health, institutions play a central role in the performance of the … Mozambican health sector-and, through it, economic and social development-particularly for the poorer and more vulnerable, such …

health of a population when other data are not available. We investigate how informative this approach is in terms of … of sample for countries where we lack income and health data. …

Uganda over the period 2000-2011. A panel dataset comprising temperature, temperature standard deviation; minimum humidity …; maximum humidity; precipitation; precipitation standard deviation; malaria cases; health facilities; hospital beds; health … workers; per capita health expenditure and gross domestic product per capita. The Fixed Effects Model was found to be …

importance of WASH services for public health outcomes, the effectiveness of WASH aid should also be evaluated in terms of its … impact on health outcomes. This is especially important in low- and middle-income countries where achieving sustained … improvements in child health outcomes remains a challenge. This paper uses geocoded sub-national data on the location of WASH aid …

dynamic economy-wide models for Ethiopia and Uganda that capture both traditional aspects of the debate (growth linkages and …

This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms … limitations and close the gaps between what Uganda's system looks like and how it functions. …

This paper investigates the impact of inequality on individual civic engagement at the community level, whether this … results show that inequality in Colombia is associated with increases in individual participation in political organizations … include elite influence, strong connectivity between community members, and high individual aspirations. The effect is …

attributes of democracy and state capacity-namely, civic participation and impartial bureaucracy-my study provides new evidence …

This paper studies the effect of austerity on forms of political participation-including voting, appealing for reform … exposure to austerity and political participation. The paper focuses on the case of the United Kingdom (UK) where, between 2011 … from austerity increases political participation and strengthens preferences for government redistribution. The …