When confronted with information that ordinary citizens do not care that strongly about efficiency, do economists change their views of optimal public ...

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There is political will to strengthen the tax system in Angola. If properly designed and implemented, the new tax system can improve the efficiency and responsiveness of the public sector. One of the main challenges, however, will be to convince the citizens of Angola about the value of paying taxes. This will require not only reforms, but a major cultural shift.

Virtually all peasant household models assume efficient allocation of household productive resources between different household activities. In an African ...

Impartial, competent and efficient judiciaries are vital in addressing corruption. Both qualitative and quantitative aspects of performance should be ...

What constitutes an efficient criminal justice system? This international workshop with leading experts explores criteria for crime-preventive impacts through the criminal justice system.

This U4 Issue explores the topic of grand corruption in the regulation of oil. It focuses on how and why corruption can distort or prevent efficient regulation ...

Value added tax has proved to be an efficient way of increasing government revenue globally, but Africa is lagging behind. Why? And what will it take ...

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

This master thesis investigates the welfare effects for bonded laborers (kamaiyas) in Western Terai of a ban on permanent labor contracts in July 2000. ...

This country study feeds into the work of a Task Force established to assess how Sweden's development assistance, in a more efficient and effective manner, ...

Fairness considerations fundamentally affect human behavior, but our understanding of the nature and development of people’s fairness preferences ...

This project is a review Haydom Lutheran Hospital, focusing on the following issues1. HLH as a hospital. (Efficiency, cost-efficiency, ...

Aid coordination is expected to ensure the more efficient and effective delivery of humanitarian assistance. Presently, a large number of humanitarian ...

In 2001 SADC approved an ambitious program for a major overhaul of the organisation. Through institutional reform SADC hoped to establish a more efficient ...

The literature on how to combine efficiency and equity considerations in the social valuation of health allocations has borrowed extensively from applied ...

Education is an important focus in many countries’ aid policies. Research shows that education is a good investment in the future on all levels, ...

One of the main issues addressed was whether the demand for efficiency in the administration hinders treatment of asylum seekers according to national ...

Danida has provided financial support to research networks with a view to creating better synergies between research and policy/operations. Six networks ...