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

Tanzania abolished school fees in primary schools as from 2002. This move was made possible because of shifts in the policy of major donors, not least ...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A user's guide to economic models of deforestation Arild Angelsen and David Kaimowitz arild ange

Financial return of irrigation equipment to owners and users: The case of shallow tube wells in Ban

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

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

The Primary Education Development Plan (PEDP) was introduced in July 2001. The plan includes the abolition of school fees, increased teacher recruitment, ...

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 further measures. ...

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.

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