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Debt in low-income countries : evolution, implications, and remedies

Vijil, Mariana; Wagner, Laurent; Woldemichael, Martha … - 2019

Debt vulnerabilities in low-income countries have increased substantially in recent years. Since 2013, median … government debt has risen by about 20 percentage points of gross domestic product and increasingly comes from non … financial conditions given high levels of external debt, lack of fiscal space, low foreign currency reserves, and undiversified …

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Strengthening public health systems : policy ideas from a governance perspective

Khemani, Stuti; Chaudhary, Sarang; Scot, Thiago - 2020

Public health systems that are capable of disease surveillance and action to prevent and manage outbreaks require trustworthy community-embedded public health workers who are empowered to undertake their tasks as professionals. Economic theory on incentives and norms of agents tasked with...

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Cash transfers increase trust in local government

Evans, David K.; Holtemeyer, Brian; Kosec, Katrina - 2018

How does a locally-managed conditional cash transfer program impact trust in government? On the one hand, delivering monetary benefits and increasing interactions with government officials (elected and appointed) may increase trust. On the other hand, imposing paternalistic conditions, leading...

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Community-driven development : myths and realities

Wong, Susan; Guggenheim, Scott E. - 2018

Community-driven development is an approach to development that emphasizes community control over planning decisions and investment resources. Over the past decade, it has become a key operational strategy for many national governments, as well as for international aid agencies, with the World...

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The informal city

Selod, Harris; Tobin, Lara - 2018

This paper proposes a theory of urban land use with endogenous property rights. Socially heterogeneous households compete for where to live in the city and choose the type of property rights they purchase from a land administration which collects fees in inequitable ways. The model generates...

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Articulations of Local Governance in Timor-Leste : Lessons for Local Development under Decentralization

Butterworth, David - 2010

In pursuing a decentralization policy that sets out to devolve elements of state authority to municipalities, the Government of Timor-Leste faces a key challenge: how to combine different types of governance systems that have legitimacy at local and state levels. In order to inform this process,...

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Metropolitan Medellin : Somos10-Integrating Ten Municipalities into One Metropolis

Restrepo-Mieth, Andrea - 2020

Globally, cities are the source of over 70 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Cities are also the engines of the global economy, concentrating more than half the world's population, and they are where the middle class is rapidly expanding. Indeed, by the year 2050, two-thirds of...

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Mining and the quality of public services : the role of local governance and decentralization

Konte, Maty; Vincent, Rose Camille - 2020

This paper investigates the local effects of mining on the quality of public services and on people's optimism about their future living conditions. It also assesses the mediating role of local institutions and local governments 'taxing rights in shaping the proximity-to-mine effects. The...

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Flies Without Borders : Lessons from Chennai on Improving India's Municipal Public Health Services

Gupta, Monica Das - 2017

India's fast-growing cities face three key challenges in improving public health outcomes. The first is the persistence of weak links in the chain notably, slums badly underserved with basic civic services that can pose public health threats to all. Richer residents corner public resources, such...

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Reforming Village-Level Governance via Horizontal Pressure : Evidence from an Experiment in Zimbabwe

Baldwin, Kate - 2017

How can patrimonial local-level governance be reformed? Debates on this topic have focused largely on the possibility of reform via pressure from above (superordinate leaders) or below (citizens). This paper tests whether horizontal pressures from civil society leaders can reform local...

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