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Local Budget Transparency and Participation : Evidence from the Kyrgyz Republic
Esenaliev, Damir - 2017
The paper investigates determinants of civic participation in local budget processes in rural areas in the Kyrgyz … civic awareness and interest in local budget processes is relatively high, the participation rate in local budgeting … processes is low. The paper also shows that interest, awareness, and participation are positively associated with the age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972306
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Mtefs and Fiscal Performance : Panel Data Evidence
Grigoli, Francesco - 2017
In the last two decades more than 120 countries have adopted a version of a Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF). These are budget institutions whose rationale it is to enable the central government to make credible multi-year fiscal commitments. This paper analyzes a newly-collected dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975007
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An Assessment of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Access in Bangladesh's Community Health Clinics
Joseph, George - 2019
conditions in health facilities. Using data collected through a census of all community health clinics in Bangladesh, this paper … presents an analysis of the state of WASH in Bangladesh's rural, public health facilities highlighting that the lack of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865455
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Local Foundations for Better Governance : A Review of Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao's Localizing Development
Myerson, Roger - 2017
In Localizing Development, Mansuri and Rao survey theory and evidence for development strategies based on local community empowerment. This note extends their theoretical argument by focusing on local government as a vital source of new leadership. Local leaders who provide better public service...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972413
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Information is Power : Experimental Evidence on the Long-Run Impact of Community Based Monitoring
Bjorkman Nyqvist, Martina - 2017
This paper presents the results of two field experiments on local accountability in primary health care in Uganda. Efforts to stimulate beneficiary control, coupled with the provision of report cards on staff performance, resulted in significant improvements in health care delivery and health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972822
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Conditional Cash Transfers, Political Participation, and Voting Behavior
Baez, Javier Eduardo - 2017
participation in the 2010 presidential elections by increasing the probability that program beneficiaries registered to vote and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974934
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Collective Action, Political Parties and Pro-Development Public Policy
Keefer, Philip - 2017
Broad consensus exists that the ability of political actors to make credible commitments is key to development. An important and little-explored determinant of the credibility of political commitments is the existence of organizations that facilitate citizen collective action to sanction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975981
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Social Accountability and Service Delivery : Experimental Evidence from Uganda
Fiala, Nathan - 2018
Corruption and mismanagement of public resources can affect the quality of government services and undermine growth. Can citizens in poor communities be empowered to demand better-quality public investments? This paper looks at whether providing social accountability training and information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918512
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Review of International Practices for Determining Medium-Term Resource Needs of Spending Agencies
Di Francesco, Michael - 2017
This paper reviews international practices for ?bottom-up costing? for medium-term expenditure frameworks. Medium-term expenditure frameworks are important because they incorporate the multi-annual nature of the fiscal policy into the budget process, mitigating its short-term bias. They also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971664
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Effects of the Internet on Participation : Study of a Public Policy Referendum in Brazil
Spada, Paolo - 2017
Does online voting mobilize citizens who otherwise would not participate? During the annual participatory budgeting vote in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil -- the world's largest -- Internet voters were asked whether they would have participated had there not been an online...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972098