This article contributes to nascent scholarship on the relations between multi-stakeholder service delivery and state legitimacy in development settings. On the basis of qualitative analysis of two multi-stakeholder projects (MSPs) for water provision in Ethiopia, we find that the specific...

Although there are numerous studies on international remittances and on smoking, there are no studies on the link between these two issues. This study provides empirical evidence for the impact of international remittances on household tobacco spending in Vietnam using panel data from Vietnam...

Through the conduct of ex post evaluations, this article examines the impact of aid projects and programmes beyond the funding period in the water and sanitation sector, which, since the inclusion of hygiene, has recently become known as Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH). The evaluations were...

Financial access is gradually being recognised as an important input to economic development. Using World Bank (2007) database, this study measures the extent of financial access in developed and developing countries. Further, it develops a new Socio-Economic Development Index, which...

Cet article fournit une synthèse des principales analyses scientifiques critiques à l’égard de l’institutionnalisme traditionnel. Il s’appuie sur une approche thématique pour retracer le débat et les points de convergence sur des questions-clés. La première partie de l’article...

Cet article traite des difficultés relatives à la validité de mesure des indicateurs globaux de gouvernance. Nous nous intéressons, en particulier, à trois conséquences néfastes de l’agrégation d’indicateurs fondés sur la perception, en l’absence de clarté conceptuelle: 1) le peu...