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On the Way to Good Health? Rural Roads and Morbidity in Upland Orissa

Report in External Series | Oct 2015

This paper investigates the effects of India’s rural roads program (PMGSY) on morbidity, using data on 279 households drawn from 30 villages ...

India

Human and financial capital for microenterprise development: Evidence from a field and lab experiment

Journal Article | Jan 2015

Microenterprises constitute an important source of employment, and developing such enterprises is a key policy concern in most countries. But ...

Mainstreaming anti-corruption into sectors: Practices in U4 partner agencies

U4 Brief | Feb 2014

Integrating anti-corruption measures into sector work – known as mainstreaming – receives increased attention from the development ...

Ungrateful children: migration intensity and remittances in Nepal

CMI Working Paper | Jul 2014

Poverty has declined dramatically in Nepal since the end of the conflict. The sharp increase in revenues primarily comes from remittances. From ...

Remittances, migration, fertility, poverty, Nepal

Fertility, household’s size and poverty in Nepal

CMI Working Paper | Jun 2014

Population control policies keep on attracting a lot of attention. The main argument in favour of a reduction in fertility rates, is that having ...

Household, fertility, Nepal

To pay or not to pay? Citizens’ attitudes towards taxation in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa

Journal Article | Jul 2014

This paper examines factors that determine citizens’ tax-compliance attitude in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa. Using the 2011/2012 ...

Taxation, compliance, Kenya, South Africa, Kenya Tanzania, Uganda

Violence et déplacement: La crise des réfugiés Syriens au Liban

Journal Article | Apr 2014

The Syrian revolt has over the past three years escalated into a massive humanitarian crisis with regional implications. The crisis is consistent ...

civil war, displacement, violence, refugees, IDPs, Syria, Lebanon, Syria, Lebanon

Doing the wrong things for the right reasons? “Do no harm” as a principle of reform

U4 Brief | Jan 2014

This Brief explores what “do no harm” means for corruption control in fragile settings and analyses how aid agencies translate the ...

fragile states, anti-corruption, do no harm, policy, strategy

Why don't clinicians adhere more consistently to the guidelines for Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)?

Journal Article | Jan 2014

The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) has been introduced to reduce child morbidity and mortality in countries with a poor health ...

Tanzania

Understanding Inequalities in Child Health in Ethiopia: Health Achievements Are Improving in the Period 2000– 2011

Journal Article | Sep 2014

Objective: In Ethiopia, coverage of key health services is low, and community based services have been implemented to improve access to ...

Ethiopia

Demand for second-stage land certification in Ethiopia: Evidence from household panel data

Journal Article | Nov 2014

Ethiopia has implemented one of the largest, fastest and least expensive land registration and certification reforms in Africa. While there ...

Ethiopia

To pay or not to pay? Citizens' attitudes towards taxation in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa

Report in External Series | Jan 2013

This paper examines factors that determine citizens’ tax-compliance attitude in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa. Using the 2011/12 ...

Taxation, compliance, tax behaviour, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda

Poverty dynamics among the Dalits of Tarai

Master's Thesis | Nov 2013

The literature suggests that links between social identity and economic outcomes can induce poverty among groups with low social status. This ...

dalit, poverty, poverty dynamics, economics, Nepal, Tarai, Nepal

Protocol for the evaluation of a pay for performance programme in Pwani region in Tanzania: A controlled before and after study

Journal Article | Aug 2013

The use of supply-side incentives to increase health service utilisation and enhance service quality is gaining momentum in many low- and middle-income ...

Health inequalities in Ethiopia: modeling inequalities in length of life within and between population groups

Journal Article | Aug 2013

Background and objectives Most studies on health inequalities use average measures, but describing the distribution of health can also provide ...

Ethiopia, Justice, Health inequality, Inequality in length of life, Priority setting, Inequality measurement, Gini

Facing misfortune: Expenditures on Magico-religious Powers for Cure and Protection in Benin

Journal Article | Jan 2013

Drawing on data we collected in Cotonou (southern Benin) we highlight the importance of magico-religious expenditures within Beninese households. ...

Benin, Western Africa

Is oil-rich Angola a development success?

Newspaper Op-Ed | Nov 2012

Ten years after the end of its civil war, Angola, which is heading to the polls Friday, has been transformed into a regional African power with ...

poverty, oil, diversification, Angola

Caste discrimination and barriers to microenterprise growth in Nepal

CMI Working Paper | Nov 2012

Studies of microbusiness in poor countries find high marginal returns to capital but also lack of investments. This paper analyzes how caste-based ...

Nepal

Human and financial capital for microenterprise development: Evidence from a field and lab experiment

CMI Working Paper | Feb 2011

Which is the most binding constraint to microenterprise development, human capital or financial capital? To answer this question, we present ...

Wrong schools or wrong students? The potential role of medical education in regional imbalances of the health workforce in the United Republic of Tanzania

Journal Article | Mar 2010

Background The United Republic of Tanzania, like many other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, faces a human resources crisis in its health sector, ...