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Repucci, Sarah - 2012

Civil service reform is one of the most intractable yet important challenges for governments and their supporters today. However, civil service reform thus far has largely failed. Based on a review of existing literature, this paper presents principles for donors, governments, and advocates to...

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Governance and COVID-19 in Bolivia

Hummel, Calla; Velasco Guachalla, V. Ximena; … - 2022

On 10 March 2020, the Bolivian government identified two COVID-19 cases in Bolivians returning from Italy. The national government responded swiftly and sent the country into one of the world's strictest lockdowns on 22 March 2020. However, low state capacity and low government legitimacy...

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States of disorder: An ecosystems approach to state-building in conflict-affected countries

Day, Adam - 2022

governance resist so-called external efforts to transform them into liberal models of the state. Instead of a gradual, linear … progression towards improved state institutional capacity, governance systems in settings like South Sudan evolve, often shifting …

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Institutions and governance in Mozambique: A bird's eye view based on existing databases

Ferreira, Ines A. - 2024

legitimacy and political leadership; and governance and state capacity. Overall, the selected indicators point to similar trends …

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Revisiting community-driven reconstruction in fragile states

Samii, Cyrus - 2023

through CDR initiatives have endured in contexts in which other governance institutions have collapsed. CDR institutions have …

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What can experiments tell us about how to improve governance?

Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2013

development policy. This paper focuses on a core topic in development policy: governance. It aims to address two key questions: (1 …) 'what have the main contributions of randomized controlled trials been to the study of governance?' and (2) 'what could be … that randomized controlled trials can be useful in studying the effects of some policy interventions in the governance area …

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International co-operation for agricultural development and food and nutrition security: New institutional arrangements for related public goods

von Braun, Joachim - 2013

Following an overview on the fast changing global context of agriculture, and food and nutrition security, this paper provides a framework for identifying the set of essential international public goods for a well-functioning world agriculture and food system: natural resource management related...

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Evaluating governance indexes: Critical and less critical questions

Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2013

Recent years have seen a proliferation of 'composite indicators' or 'indexes' of governance. Such measures can be … useful tools for analysing governance, making public policy, building scientific knowledge, and even influencing ruling … a framework of ten questions to help users and producers of governance indexes to evaluate them and consider key …

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Successful' development models in the MENA region

Drine, Imed - 2012

This paper provides a synthesis of the country cases in the Middle East and North Africa: Oman, Bahrain, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates. Although these countries differ in terms of resource endowments and economic evolution, they share common aspects of successful development. This...

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Does aid availability affect effectiveness in reducing poverty?

Bourguignon, François; Platteau, Jean-Philippe - 2012

review research works that deal with the problem of governance in donor-recipient relationships and are susceptible of …-off between considerations of needs and governance. We examine the impact of aid supply on the manner in which a donor agency … allocates the available money between countries differing in terms of both needs and domestic governance. The central conclusion …

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