Impact Initiative: Recent submissions
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Service Delivery Transformation for UHC in Asia and the Pacific
(Taylor and Francis, 2019)This article was drafted as part of a review of strategiesfor making progress toward universal health coverage in the coun-tries of Asia and the Pacific. It focuses on strengthening thedelivery of services, in the context ... -
Next Steps Towards Universal Health Coverage Call for Global Leadership
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2019)Universal health coverage (UHC) has been identified as a priority for international development by the G20, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations General Assembly. Since it was explicitly incorporated into ... -
Long-lasting Consequences of War on Disability
(SAGE, 2019)This article investigates the impact of exposure to United States air force bombing during 1965–75 on the disability status of individuals in Vietnam in 2009. Using a combination of national census and US military data and ... -
The Power of the “Audience-Public”: Interactive Radio in Africa
(SAGE, 2018)Scholars of media and politics mostly recognise that audiences and publics are constructed, but fall short of explaining precisely how their indeterminate and imagined nature can be the basis of their political significance. ... -
The Economic Significance of Laws Relating to Employment Protection and Different Forms of Employment: Analysis of a Panel of 117 Countries, 1990-2013
(Wiley, 2018)The authors use time series econometric analysis applying non‐stationary panel data methods to estimate the relationships between employment protection legislation and legal protection of different forms of employment ... -
The Use of Quantitative Methods in Labour Law Research an Assessment and Reformulation
(SAGE Publications, 2018)This article considers the potential and limits of quantitative approaches to labour law research. It explores the methods used to construct and validate indicators of labour regulation (‘leximetrics’) and those used in ... -
Smallholders' Demand For and Access to Private-Sector Extension Services: A Case Study of Contracted Cotton Producers in Northern Tanzania
(Wiley Online Library, 2019)This paper examines demand for and access to private‐sector extension services by contracted cotton producers in northern Tanzania. Data from a non‐random survey of 520 smallholders show that only 21.9% received any extension ... -
Characterisation of Biomass Resources in Nepal and Assessment of Potential for Increased Charcoal Production
(Elsevier B.V., 2018)Characterisation of 27 types of biomass was performed together with an assessment of regional resource availability. Charcoal was produced under two conditions from all samples and their yields were compared. Sugarcane ... -
Factor structure of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking Figural Form A in Kiswahili Speaking Children: Multidimensionality and Influences on Creative Behavior
(Elsevier Ltd, 2018)The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) was developed in 1966 and has been translated into more than 35 languages (Millar, 2002). It is the most used and referenced creativity test (Davis, 1997; Lissitz & Willhoft, ... -
The Effects of the Universal Metering Programme on Water Consumption, Welfare and Equity
(Oxford University Press, 2019)There is consensus that meters are necessary for the promotion of efficient water usage. However, available evidence on the benefits and costs of metering is scant, and often based on small samples. We use data from the ... -
Water Tariffs and Consumers' Inaction
(University of Southampton, 2018)We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South-East of England in conjunction with an universal metering programme. We document how inertia leads customers ... -
The role of regional health diplomacy on data sharing. The SADC and UNASUR cases
(Berghahn Books, 2019)English abstract: Health governance has become multi-layered as the combined result of decentralization, regional integration and the emergence of new actors nationally and internationally. Whereas this has enhanced the ... -
Collective Health and Regional Integration in Latin America: An Opportunity for Building a New International Health Agenda
(Taylor and Francis, 2019)From its origins, the Latin American Social Medicine and the Collective Health (LASM/CH) movements have focused on thinking about health from and for the region. After the implementation of neoliberal policies, social ... -
Introduction: Multi-level Health Governance and Health Diplomacy. Regional Dimensions
(Berghahn Books, 2019)This introduction to the special section explores the nexus between global health governance and international health diplomacy. In these dynamic governance spaces, particular aĴ ention is paid ... -
Building a Regional Health Agenda: A Rights-based Approach to Health in South America
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)Attention to health policies in Southern regional organisations reveals a new ‘social turn’ in the regional political economy of international cooperation. The aims of this paper are twofold. First, it aims to establish ... -
Global Approaches to Social Policy: a Survey of Analytical Methods
(United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2018)The broader question addressed by this paper is whether social policy can still be understood as the outcome of sociopolitical forces exclusively rooted in and playing out through domestic spheres of governance. This ... -
The Struggle Against Torture: Challenges, Assumptions and New Directions
(Oxford University Press, 2019)This short essay offers a broad and necessarily incomplete review of the current state of the human rights struggle against torture and ill-treatment. It sketches four widespread assumptions in that struggle: 1) that torture ... -
Filtering Information: Human Rights Documentation in Bangladesh
(Oxford University Press, 2019)Documentation of human rights violations is a difficult and dangerous practice. The capacity of human rights organizations does not match the extent of the problems they encounter and the depth of the issues they illuminate. ... -
Counting Torture: Towards the Translation of Robust, Useful, and Inclusive Human Rights Indicators
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)The turn to quantified measures is part of an attempt to produce more objective and comprehensive data on human rights violations. However, the turn to numbers has also been criticised for forcing human rights into the ... -
Monetary Compensation for Survivors of Torture: Some Lessons from Nepal
(Oxford University Press, 2018)The Nepali Compensation Relating to Torture Act (1996) is one of the earliest pieces of specific anti-torture legislation adopted in the global South. Despite a number of important limitations, scores of Nepalis have ...