The author has spent close to ten years as advisor to planning organisations in four developing countries: Pakistan, Kenya, the Sudan and Bangladesh. ...

The main objectives of the evaluation were to (a) assess the relevance, effectiveness and impact of Danish development assistance administered by MS; ...

Seeking to expand the domain of the political beyond normative understandings of the state, the articles in this special edition examine the performative ...

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

Performance-based funding has been proposed as one mechanism to speed up the implementation of interventions for reduced maternal and newborn mortality. ...

Pay-for-performance programs in health care are widespread in low- and middle-income countries. However, there are no studies of these programs’ ...

Corruption indicators have been used in budget support Performance Assessment Frameworks (PAFs) for a variety of purposes, including to control for misappropriation ...

This paper explores how the relationship between bureaucratic complexity and corruption affects the performance in utilities. We observe considerable ...

This study focuses on Tanzania's efforts to use elements from ethnic expressive arts in political propaganda and in the creation of a national culture ...

Global indexes are commonly used to measure a country’s performance, including on the implementation of human rights conventions. Such audit-like ...

Health workers’ motivation is a key determinant of the quality of health services, and poor motivation has been found to be an obstacle to service ...

Inspired by a vision to build knowledge on how to implement high quality health care in low income contexts, Chr Michelsen Institute (CMI), Health Economics ...

Organisational performance review of the Norwegian People's Aid Elling N. Tjønneland, Gisle Hagen

This new project is the first to study national implementation of results-based financing in the health sector in a large country.

Tanzanian health workers do not convert enough of their knowledge into practice. As a consequence, patients are inadequately examined. Building a stronger professional ethic could urge health workers to raise their standards.

In an effort to improve maternal and child health, Tanzanian authorities implemented a pay for performance (P4P) scheme in 2009. The more women the health workers convinced to give birth at health facilities, the bigger bonus they would get. The number of women giving birth at health facilities did increase, but the new scheme also had adverse effects.

Review of Angela Hobart's 'Healing Performances of Bali: Between Darkness and Light', Berghahn Book

Swearing innocence: Performing justice and 'reconciliation' in post-new order Lombok. Kari Telle Re

Export performance and trade facilitation in SADC Line Tøndel Seim Towards political and econommic

Special issue on 'Performing Sovereignty and Nationality in Southeast Asia', Nations and Nationalism