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Blending Top-Down Federalism with Bottom-Up Engagement to Reduce Inequality in Ethiopia
Khan, Qaiser - 2017
Donors increasingly fund interventions to counteract inequality in developing countries, where they fear it can foment instability and undermine nation-building efforts. To succeed, aid relies on the principle of upward accountability to donors. But federalism shifts the accountability of...
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Community-Driven Development : Myths and Realities
Wong, Susan - 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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Who Serves the Poor? Surveying Civil Servants in the Developing World
Rogger, Daniel - 2017
, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines, to highlight key aspects of their characteristics and experience of … example, measured management practices differ widely across local governments of a single state in Nigeria. Surveys of civil …
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No Condition is Permanent : Middle Class in Nigeria in the Last Decade
Corral Rodas, Paul Andres - 2017
Nigeria. The threshold expenditure for the middle class in Nigeria is found to be 378.39 Naira per capita per day (2010 PPP …). Relying on this threshold and through survey-to-survey imputation the size of Nigeria's middle class in 2003 is also estimated … percent to 19 percent. Nevertheless the results still paint a heterogeneous picture of poverty and the middle class in Nigeria …
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What Do Teachers Know and Do? Does it Matter? Evidence from Primary Schools in Africa
Bold, Tessa - 2017
School enrollment has universally increased over the past 25 years in low-income countries. However, enrolling in school does not guarantee that children learn. A large share of children in low-income countries learn little, and they complete their primary education lacking even basic reading,...
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Do Performance Agreements Help Improve Service Delivery? The Experience of Brazilian States
Vinuela, Lorena - 2017
A growing number of states and municipalities in Brazil rely on results-based management, and many other local and state governments are considering adopting the practice. This paper examines the experiences of the Brazilian states that have implemented results agreements linked to variable pay....
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Buying Votes vs. Supplying Public Services : Political Incentives to Under-Invest in Pro-Poor Policies
Khemani, Stuti - 2017
This paper uses unique survey data to provide, for the first time in the literature, direct evidence that vote buying in poor economies is associated with lower provision of public services that disproportionately benefit the poor. Various features of the data and the institutional context allow...
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General Purpose Central-Provincial-Local Transfers (Dau) in Indonesia : From Gap Filling to Ensuring Fair Access to Essential Public Services for All
Shah, Anwar - 2017
Indonesia has come a long way from centralized governance to decentralized local governance, and today Indonesia ranks among the most decentralized developing countries. The Government of Indonesia is revisiting all aspects of local governance to make appropriate legal and institutional...
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Public Services and Expenditure Need Equalization : Reflections on Principles and Worldwide Comparative Practices
Shah, Anwar - 2017
This paper reviews the conceptual challenges as well as lessons from worldwide experiences in implementing public services and expenditure need compensation in fiscal equalization transfers with a view to developing guidance for practitioners. The paper concludes that while in theory a strong...
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Making Services Work : Indicators, Assessments, and Benchmarking of the Quality and Governance of Public Service Delivery in the Human Development Sectors
Fiszbein, Ariel - 2017
Improving governance is central to improving results in human development. It is clear that money is not enough: improved outcomes from service delivery require better governance, including mechanisms for holding service providers accountable and appropriate incentives for performance. There is...
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