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Does Information Lead to More Active Citizenship? Evidence from an Education Intervention in Rural Kenya

Lieberman, Evan S.; Posner, Daniel N.; Tsai, Lily L. - In: World Development 60 (2014) C, pp. 69-83

We study a randomized educational intervention in 550 households in 26 matched villages in two Kenyan districts. The intervention provided parents with information about their children’s performance on literacy and numeracy tests, and materials about how to become more involved in improving...

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Public Service Provision under Conditions of Insufficient Citizen Demand: Insights from the Urban Sanitation Sector in Indonesia

Winters, Matthew S.; Karim, Abdul Gaffar; Martawardaya, … - In: World Development 60 (2014) C, pp. 31-42

Indonesia drastically lags behind other countries in Southeast Asia and at similar levels of development in supplying urban wastewater sanitation. We use case studies from three cities in Indonesia to better understand why wastewater services are underprovided. We find strong demand-side...

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Bureaucratic Delay, Local-Level Monitoring, and Delivery of Small Infrastructure Projects: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bolivia

Yanez-Pagans, Monica; Machicado-Salas, Gustavo - In: World Development 59 (2014) C, pp. 394-407

designed to improve public service delivery by promoting voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots organizations …

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The Politics of Federalism in Argentina and its Implications for Governance and Accountability

Ardanaz, Martín; Leiras, Marcelo; Tommasi, Mariano - In: World Development 53 (2014) C, pp. 26-45

This paper contributes to an agenda that views the effects of federalism and decentralization as dependent on the incentives of national and subnational political actors. It studies the mechanisms by which subnational actors affect decisions at the central level, in the context of a highly...

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Understanding and Improving Accountability in Education: A Conceptual Framework and Guideposts from Three Decentralization Reform Experiences in Latin America

Gershberg, Alec Ian; González, Pablo Alberto; Meade, Ben - In: World Development 40 (2012) 5, pp. 1024-1041

Many countries have emphasized hierarchical control or different exit and voice mechanisms to increase accountability … of educational systems. We build a framework for understanding accountability reforms and develop three illustrative … components of accountability; their complex interrelationships; and the importance of design details, implementation, and …

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The Effects of Participatory Budgeting on Municipal Expenditures and Infant Mortality in Brazil

Gonçalves, Sónia - In: World Development 53 (2014) C, pp. 94-110

This paper investigates whether the use of participatory budgeting in Brazilian municipalities during 1990–2004 affected the pattern of municipal expenditures and had any impact on living conditions. It shows that municipalities using participatory budgeting favored an allocation of public...

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How Should MDG Success and Failure be Judged: Faster Progress or Achieving the Targets?

Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko; Greenstein, Joshua; Stewart, David - In: World Development 41 (2013) C, pp. 19-30

This paper addresses the debate about the use of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as performance measures in three ways. First we clarify the concept; like other global goals, the MDGs are benchmarks for gauging progress toward important objectives and should not be treated as planning...

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Citizens, Legislators, and Executive Disclosure: The Political Determinants of Fiscal Transparency

Wehner, Joachim; de Renzio, Paolo - In: World Development 41 (2013) C, pp. 96-108

Increased fiscal transparency is associated with improved budgetary outcomes, lower sovereign borrowing costs, decreased corruption, and less creative accounting by governments. Despite these benefits, hardly any effort has been invested in exploring the determinants of fiscal transparency....

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Participatory Governance Reform: A Good Strategy for Increasing Government Responsiveness and Improving Public Services?

Speer, Johanna - In: World Development 40 (2012) 12, pp. 2379-2398

several public policy benefits, including increased accountability, higher government responsiveness, and better public … accountability mechanisms is a challenging enterprise in most developing countries. Hence, more comparative cross-case research based …

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Decentralization and Governance

Faguet, Jean-Paul - In: World Development 53 (2014) C, pp. 2-13

, improve public accountability, reduce political instability, and impose incentive-compatible limits on government power, but …

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