The emphasis on constitutional political economy has been that new rules and institutions can be devised that improve … the welfare of a society. Given the number of societies that are infected with political conflict and, as a result, lower … conflict. The key idea is that expressively motivated group members may create incentives for instrumentally motivated group …

military expenditure, the authors find no deterrence effect of military spending on the risk of internal conflict. So there …

-determined legal status territories, fragile and conflict-affected situations, and transboundary ecosystems. In these areas, effective … challenges by providing baseline data to guide conservation strategies. Using newly developed World Bank species occurrence maps … richness, endemism, and extinction risks across 35 non-determined legal status territories, 19 conflict-affected countries, 20 …

The post-communist transition to social health insurance in many of the Central and Eastern European and Central Asian … social health insurance and tax-financed health systems. This paper employs a regression-based generalization of the … find that, controlling for any concurrent provider payment reforms, adoption of social health insurance increased national …

Health systems are not just about improving health: good ones also ensure that people are protected from the financial … consequences of receiving medical care. Anecdotal evidence suggests health systems often perform badly in this respect, apparently … to measure financial protection in health. Both relate a household's out-of-pocket spending to a threshold defined in …

and health services. Drawing on multiple rounds of SUSENAS household surveys, they document a reversal in the rate of … 1990s. Carrying out traditional static benefit-incidence analysis of public spending in education and health, the authors … find patterns consistent with experience in other countries: spending on primary education and primary health care tends to …

health outcomes and health service use. In any effort to address these questions, analysts must confront the issue of how to … analysis of health inequalities and the incidence of public spending. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the potential … sensitivity of the analysis of health-related inequalities to how socioeconomic status is measured. Using data from Mozambique …

water allocation mechanisms and institutional features provide better opportunities for mitigating conflict given that water …

, government health expenditure is likely to be even more pro-rich in the world as a whole than it is in the countries in this …-poorness of government health expenditure across 69 countries at all levels of income. On average, government health expenditure … emerges as significantly pro-rich, but there is heterogeneity across countries: in the majority, government health expenditure …