The extent to which social protection programmes in general, and targeted programmes in particular, actually alleviate poverty has been a central issue in development debates for decades. The objective of this article is to contribute to the debate by empirically examining the...

There is no denying that policy actors matter in driving policy change. Most of the policy process frameworks argued for the centrality of policy actors but have similarly contended that the occurrence of policy change is contingent upon the dynamic interaction of policy actors, organizations...

"The objective of the book is to assess the policy actions of select Asian governments - in China, India, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand - to address critical health system functions from a policy design perspective. Our findings show that all governments in the region have made...