Poor people lack access to health care with a negative impact on their dignity, human capital formation and their risk-management options. Recently an emerging movement of community-based health insurance schemes has attracted the attention of policy makers and researchers as it seems that these...

Decentralisation has become a key issue in development policy in the past two decades. Whereas the advantages and risks of transferring power and resources to local tiers of government have been debated for quite some time, it is only very recently that the linkages between decentralization and...

Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (EZ) sollte als die Gesamtheit der zwischen - und innerstaatlichen Allokation (finanzielle, technologische, wissensbezogene) verstanden werden, die auf die Verbesserung der heutigen und zukünftigen Lebensbedingungen der Armen und Benachteiligten abzielt. Diese...