Social policy and the health crisis in the new Russia / Nadia Davidova ... [et al.] -- Measuring the population's health / Nataliya Tikhonova -- Understanding health / Svetlana Goryunova and Nataliya Tikhonova -- Inequalities and health / Nataliya Tikhonova -- Poverty in post-reform Russia /...

This paper has four objectives: 1. To offer an analysis of public administration reform experiences in a set of countries chosen to illustrate the range and depth of recent administrative change. 2. To pick out from this analysis those variables that seem particularly relevant to the current...

The paper cover two broad themes in the recent reform of fiscal and economic management in Afghanistan. The first part, The Journey So Far, sets out the impressive policy and institutional reforms that the Interim and Transitional Administrations have made since the Bonn conference in November...

This note sets out approaches to reform which start with identifying the shortcomings in results and which then look for pragmatic solutions that fit the particular context: no best practice, fewer universal recommendations for institutional design. The relative merits of this type of approach...