Este artigo realiza uma abordagem referente às Câmaras Setoriais do agronegócio brasileiro, utilizando os conceitos da Nova Economia Institucional. O que se pretende mostrar é que essas câmaras consistem em organizações que agem de forma preponderante, em sinergia com o Estado, na busca...

Apresenta os antecedentes das políticas de desenvolvimento territorial e das formas de gestão pública. Identifica, para tanto, as principais contribuições teóricas contemporâneas no campo do desenvolvimento e da análise de políticas públicas. Explora as atuais experiências de...

Numerous national transfer programs around the world are designed with uniform benefit schedules imposed by central governments, but implemented by local governments. The Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in Ethiopia, the second largest safety net in Sub Saharan Africa, is one such program....

The main objective of this paper was to conduct Programs Budget Analysis of the water sub-sector in Uganda over the period 1999/00 to 2009/10 in order to gain an understanding of sources of funding and the way funds were allocated to different programs. This sub sector has been identified as one...

The paper analyses the impact of household attrition in the Northern Uganda Survey panel of 2004 and 2008. These surveys were designed to evaluate the performance of the first phase of the Northern Uganda Social Action Fund (NUSAF). The first survey was conducted in 2004 when the region faced...

In zahlreichen Ländern werden sowohl vom Wirtschaftsministerium als auch vom Landwirtschaftsministerium Programme der ländlichen Entwicklung unterhalten. In der Schweiz werden heute sowohl unter dem Dach der Neuen Regionalpolitik als auch im Rahmen des Landwirtschaftsgesetzes Projekte zur...

A key issue in political economy concerns the accountability that governance structures impose on public officials and how elections and representative democracy influences the allocation of public resources. In this paper we exploit a unique survey data set from nearly 2450 randomly selected...

Childhood obesity has been recognized as not only a personal disease, but also as a social problem inducing government development of policies to address the childhood obesity problem. Since the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) has been one of the most important nutrition supplement programs...