Journal Articles - External: Recent submissions
Now showing items 361-380 of 429
-
Women and Peacebuilding: Local Perspectives on Opportunities and Barriers
(International Institute of Social Studies, 2018-02)The UN Security Council Resolution 1325 has made strong provisions to include women in peace‐building interventions and actions. This is, however, rarely observed in practice beyond local‐level activities. This article ... -
Linking taxation and social protection: Evidence on redistribution and poverty reduction in Ethiopia
(Wiley Online Library, 2018-01)Although redistribution results from the simultaneous effects of taxes and transfers, analyses of their distributional effects in low‐income countries have largely been undertaken from singular perspectives. This article ... -
Systematic reviews of cost-effectiveness in low and middle income countries: a review of reviews
(Taylor and Francis, 2018-02)We investigate whether systematic reviews of cost-effectiveness analyses of interventions in low and middle income countries are feasible and useful. To this aim, we systematically review systematic reviews of cost-effectiveness ... -
Legal Empowerment and Social Accountability: Complementary Strategies Toward Rights-based Development in Health?
(Elsevier, 2017-11)Citizen-based accountability strategies to improve the lives of the poor and marginalized groups are increasingly being used in efforts to improve basic public services. The latest thinking suggests that broader, multi-pronged, ... -
Colonial Legacy, State-building and the Salience of Ethnicity in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Wiley Online Library, 2018-02-13)African colonial history suggests that British colonial rule may have undermined state centralisation due to legacies of ethnic segregation and stronger executive constraints. Using micro‐data from anglophone and francophone ... -
Aid and Taxation in Ethiopia
(Taylor and Francis, 2016-05-12)The relation between aid and taxation is largely contested in the literature. On the one hand, aid may act as a substitute for tax revenue and thus have a crowding-out effect. It can also have a detrimental effect on ... -
Building Inclusive Peace and Security in Times of Unequal Development and Rising Violence
(Routledge, 2018)This paper situates the challenges of building peace and security within the historical legacies of unequal development, militarism and global violence. It identifies the spaces for change opened by shifts in global ... -
Post-Conflict Ruptures and the Political Space for Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh
(Elsevier, 2018-05)Bangladesh is widely deemed to have made rapid progress on gender equality and women's empowerment. How to understand the apparent advances of women in a poor, populous, Muslim-majority country in the belt of classic ... -
The 1970 Bhola Cyclone, Nationalist Politics, and the Subsistence Crisis Contract in Bangladesh
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2017)The devastating Bhola cyclone in November 1970 is credited with having triggered the political events that led to the division of Pakistan and the creation of Bangladesh in 1971. A callous response to the disaster by the ... -
Health Systems Research in a Complex and Rapidly Changing Context: Ethical Implications of Major Health Systems Change at Scale
(Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2016-03-09)This paper discusses health policy and systems research in complex and rapidly changing contexts. It focuses on ethical issues at stake for researchers working with government policy makers to provide evidence to inform ... -
Top Income Shares, Business Profits, and Effective Tax Rates in Contemporary Chile
(Wiley Online Library, 2015-04-10)We contribute to research on inequality and world top incomes by presenting the first calculations of Chilean top income shares and effective tax rates using individual tax return microdata from 2005 and 2009. We pay special ... -
The Role of Land Property Rights in the War on Illicit Crops: Evidence from Colombia
(Elsevier, 2018-03)This paper examines the effect of the formalization of land property rights in the war against illicit crops, using the case of Colombia. We argue that as a consequence of the increase in state presence and visibility, ... -
Norms, Power, and the Socially Embedded Realities of Market Taxation in Northern Ghana
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-03-06)This article provides a ground-level view of market taxation in two local government areas in Ghana’s relatively disadvantaged northern region. It describes a system shaped by informal practices that are grounded in social ... -
Welfare Spending and Political Conflict in Latin America, 1970-2010
(Elsevier, 2018-07)In this article we study an age-old question in political economy: does government spending on welfare ensure peace? This question was at the heart of the European Welfare State model of the early 20th century, and remains ... -
Rebuilding Local Government Finances After Conflict: Lessons from a Property Tax Reform Programme in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone
(Taylor and Francis, 2016-05-12)This research interrogates the factors underpinning the relative success of a property tax reform programme in Sierra Leone. Recognising the importance of politics in shaping reform outcomes, it highlights reform strategies ... -
Cash for Care? Researching the Linkages Between Social Protection and Children's Care in Rwanda?
(Practical Action Publishing Ltd, 2017-01-23)Social protection is increasingly considered to be a powerful intervention for responding to concerns around children’s care. This chapter considers the impact of social protection on child well-being, quality of care, ... -
What Drives and Constrains Effective Leadership in Tackling Child Undernutrition? Findings from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India and Kenya
(Elsevier, 2015-04-20)Strong leadership has been highlighted as a common element of success within countries that have made rapid progress in tackling child and maternal undernutrition. Yet little is known of what contributes to nutrition ... -
When do Institutions Work? A Comparison of Two Water Disputes over the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna River Basins
(IWA Publishing, 2017)This article investigates the motives and incentives that drive countries' diplomatic efforts in water disputes. It aims to identify links between the formation of water management institutions (WMI) and the outcomes of ... -
Anti-microbial Resistance and Universal Health Coverage
(BMJ Journals, 2017-10-31)The WHO launched a Global Action Plan on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in 2015. World leaders in the G7, G20 and the UN General Assembly have declared AMR to be a global crisis. World leaders have also adopted universal ... -
Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance in China: Policy Implementation in a Complex Context
(BioMed Central, 2016-06-06)The effectiveness of antibiotics in treating bacterial infections is decreasing in China because of the widespread development of resistant organisms. Although China has enacted a number of regulations to address this ...