The study examines measures that aim to encourage taxpayer compliance through taxpayer education and constructive engagement between the government ...

Field experiments documenting positive treatment effects have a strong policy message: scale up! However, such experiments are typically implemented ...

Local democracy and the involvement of local communities in the provision of social services are central issues in the local government reforms ...

In 2006, the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Ministers of Development expressed a desire to move towards more effective collective responses ...

This article analyses (1) how financial incentives (salary top-ups) and non-financial incentives (housing and education) affect nurses’ ...

Following advice from the World Bank, and hoping for economic growth and independence from donors, a number of African countries have opened ...

Tax reforms are no longer the exclusive domain of the International Monetary Fund, external experts, and the Ministry of Finance. Increasingly, ...

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

Payment for Performance (P4P) aims to improve provider motivation to perform better, but little is known about the effects of P4P on accountability ...

Payment for performance (P4P) strategies, which provide financial incentives to health workers and/or facilities for reaching pre-defined performance ...

This concluding chapter compares the poverty reduction strategies of six sub-Saharan African countries (Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania, ...

Informal payments for health services are common in many transitional and developing countries. Informal payments are often claimed to reduce ...

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

Using survey data of voters in Tanzania, this paper shows that while education does not affect self-reported voting in general elections, it ...

Does self-serving elite behaviour make citizens more politically active? This paper presents the results of a randomized field experiment where ...

Effective collection of property taxes requires constructive working relations between the central government revenue authority and the municipalities, ...

Hvorfor kjører Polens nasjonal-konservative regjeringsparti LHBT-motstand som viktigste valgkamptema foran Europaparlamentsvalget i mai? Under ...

Good governance in the management of natural resources is now recognized by scholars and policy makers as key to ensuring that countries can ...

CMI is starting a new research programme on Global Health and Development, with a focus on health economics and health systems research in the South. In order to strengthen our capacity in this field, CMI is seeking a PhD candidate for 3 years with a possible 1 year extension.

This year's biannual seminar cover topics ranging from organised crime and human capital formation, to the role of cash transfers in reducing poverty and vulnerability.