Designed to promote efficiency and expand access to health care services by leveraging financial contributions from patients, user fee systems ...

Corruption keeps people thirsty. It damages drinking supplies and sanitation and makes water inaccessible and unaffordable. Because dirty water can be deadly, cleaning up the water sector is a matter of life and death. Below is some advice for what donors can do to help prevent corruption in water management.

Tanzania abolished school fees in primary schools as from 2002. This move was made possible because of shifts in the policy of major donors, ...

The growth of Africa's towns and cities has outpaced local authority capacity in terms of management, infrastructure, and financing. Many ...

Hawala networks can be useful partners in the work against money laundering of corruption gains, rather than the obstacle they are often considered to be.

This paper examines opportunities and constraints facing local revenue mobilisation in anglophone Africa, with an emphasis on urban settings. ...

This paper examines opportunities and constraints facing local revenue mobilization in Anglophone Africa with an emphasis on urban settings. ...

This book, co-edited by Harald Mathisen from CMI/U4 describes how corruption is a serious problem for both rich and poor countries, threatening ...

The water “business” involves large numbers of consumers using water in different ways including households, industries, and farms. ...

The growth of Africa's towns and cities has outpaced local authority capacity in terms of management, infrastructure, and financing. Many African ...

The report analyses Ethiopia's economic performance and expected future development. The economic growth rate is likely to remain high despite ...

The main objective of the project is to provide better evidence on how to promote effective, efficient and legitimate local government tax systems ...

Sudan has undertaken decentralization reforms since the early 1990s, in a federal government system with three tiers: federal, state, and local ...

How is Angola transforming growth into development? How to balance benefits to Angola's citizens and foreign investors?

During my fieldwork in Ilam district, Eastern Nepal, I had the chance to visit many different homes, and to experience parts of the everyday life of Nepali families. So far, in every single stay, I was impressed by the children’s motivation for doing homework until late in the evening, and their great ability to speak English. One of them, a 4,5-years old was copying mathematical rules and letters several times, “just for fun, as he is doing it every evening”, as his older brother told me.

Despite widespread implementation across Africa, there is limited evidence of the effect of payment for performance (P4P) schemes in low ...

Citizens' unwillingness to pay taxes and fees are considered to be a major obstacle to enhancing government revenues in Tanzania. Dealing with ...

India's Right to Information Act is one of the most powerful in the world, but the increasing attacks on users of the law suggest a need for ...

The success of REDD+ hinges on providing forest users with positive monetary and nonmonetary incentives or benefits that both motivate behavioral ...

Informal payments—payments made from patients to health personnel in excess of official fees—are widespread in low-income countries. ...