We study how political institutions, political processes and political action shape and are shaped by democracy and rights, economic outcomes and social development.

Tanzania has recently discovered large petroleum and natural gas reserves, boosting its natural resource stocks and potential future revenue flows. Whether ...

The chapter discusses how the five main countries of Southeast Asia have handled the pressures of rapid economic growth and ethnic relations. Has growth ...

The chapter gives an overview of the state and trends of human rights in Nepal up to 1992. It covers the full range of rights from civil and political ...

The chapter gives a broad overview of the state and trends of human rights in Pakistan up to 1993. It covers both civil and political rights and economic, ...

Good governance facades Karl Ove Moene, Tina Søreide Greed, Corruption, and the Modern State : Essa

Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to climate change. The poor are the most vulnerable to heat waves, sea level rise, the destruction of coastal zones, drought and water shortages. Is fair global interenational climate governance possible, asks Professor Oliver C. Ruppel.

Good Tax Governance (GTG) and more effective tax systems are central for sustainable development because they can: (i) mobilise the domestic tax base ...

Interventions to fix market failures in infrastructure have often resulted in some form of governance failure and this contributes importantly to explain ...

Formal institutions are central actors in natural resource governance decisions and a key arena in which policies, laws and regulations ranging from forest ...

Innovative management of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) forests is an international priority. It is important to promote socio-economic ...

Introduction. Rethinking responsibility and governance in resource extraction Owen Logan and John-A

Corruption in the pharmaceutical system results in wasted resources, limited access to health services and reduced health gains. In this U4 Issue paper, ...

Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis methods are currently underutilised in evaluations of governance and anti-corruption reforms in developing ...

The overall objective of the programme is institutional research co-operation on issues relevant to the poor in Bangladesh, support policy-relevant ...

The World Bank identified judiciary among institutions which ran down during centralized governance. The Bank also expressed the need for and willingness ...

Participation and governance in the development of Borana: Southern Ethiopia Johan Helland African

This report is the result of deskwork review of two major documents, signed in 2005 on Abyei area conflict, in order to expose factors that contributed ...

Since the end of 2013, the Ebola virus disease has been ravaging the economies and societies of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea-Conakry, infecting over ...

What can explain the varied effectiveness of internationally led attempts at statebuilding? This article seeks to answer this question by comparing the ...

This report is an overview of literature on budget processes and economic governance. The review takes stock of the latest advances in relevant international ...