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Towards the Just and Sustainable Use of Antibiotics
(BioMed Central, 2016-10-07)The emergence and spread of antibiotic resistant pathogens poses a big challenge to policy-makers, who need to oversee the transformation of health systems that evolved to provide easy access to these drugs into ones that ... -
Universal Health Coverage, Economic Slowdown and System Resilience: Africa’s Policy Dilemma
(BMJ Global Health, 2017-08-30)Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) has become a dominant policy reoccupation within the global health community. For Africa, progress towards UHC involves ambitious goals for expanding access to a range of ... -
Using Theories of Change to Inform Implementation of Health Systems Research and Innovation: Experiences of Future Health Systems Consortium Partners in Bangladesh, India and Uganda
(BioMed Central, 2017-12-28)The Theory of Change (ToC) is a management and evaluation tool supporting critical thinking in the design, implementation and evaluation of development programmes. We document the experience of Future Health Systems (FHS) ... -
Universal Health Coverage and Primary Healthcare: Lessons From Japan; Comment on “Achieving Universal Health Coverage by Focusing on Primary Care in Japan: Lessons for Low- and Middle-Income Countries”
(International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2017-04)A recent editorial by Naoki Ikegami has proposed three key lessons from Japan’s experience of achieving virtually universal coverage with primary healthcare services: the need to integrate the existing providers of primary ... -
Household Structure, Left-Behind Elderly, and Rural Migration in China
(Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Core, 2016-08-05)The influence of household demographic composition on rural migration in China has received limited attention. With data from a household survey in China's Sichuan and Hubei Provinces, this paper uses Probit models to ... -
Maintenance Affordances and Structural Inequalities: Mobile Phone Use by Low-Income Women in the United Kingdom
(Information Technologies & International Development, 2018)This article shows the impact of “maintenance affordances” on women’s capabilities to use mobile phones to lead lives they value. Analysis of data from a qualitative study of mobile phone use by 30 young low-income ... -
Health System Innovations: Adapting to Rapid Change
(BioMed Central, 2018-03-09)This paper introduces the Thematic Issue on Innovation in Health Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. -
'We Have the Internet in Our Hands’: Bangladeshi College Students’ Use of ICTs For Health Information
(BioMed Central, 2018-03-20)Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) which enable people to access, use and promote health information through digital technology, promise important health systems innovations which can challenge gatekeepers’ ... -
Scaling Up ART Adherence Clubs in the Public Sector Health System in the Western Cape, South Africa: a Study of the Institutionalisation of a Pilot Innovation
(BioMed Central, 2018-04-25)In 2011, a decision was made to scale up a pilot innovation involving ‘adherence clubs’ as a form of differentiated care for HIV positive people in the public sector antiretroviral therapy programme in the Western Cape ... -
Adaptive Policy Innovations and the Construction of Emission Trading Schemes in China: Taking Stock and Looking Forward
(Elsevier, 2017)Harnessing market instruments of climate governance, such as emission trading schemes (ETS) into an authoritarian and highly fragmented governance system like China can be challenging. It requires tremendous efforts from ... -
Local Climate Governance and Policy Innovation in China: a Case Study of a Piloting Emission Trading Scheme in Guangdong Province
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2017)This paper investigates how piloting programmes in China can promote local policy innovations. By using one of the piloting emission trading schemes (ETS) in Guangdong province as a case study, it is argued that the main ... -
The Political Economy for Low-carbon Energy Transition in China: Towards a New Policy Paradigm?
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2017)China has become the leading country to develop wind and solar energy industries. By presenting the institutional arrangement and interest constellations of China’s regulatory system of renewable energy sectors, this paper ... -
ICTs and the Challenge of Health System Transition in Low and Middle-Income Countries
(BioMed Central, 2017-08-07)The aim of this paper is to contribute to debates about how governments and other stakeholders can influence the application of ICTs to increase access to safe, effective and affordable treatment of common illnesses, ... -
Whose Violence, Whose Security? Can Violence Reduction and Security Work for Poor, Excluded and Vulnerable People?
(Routledge, 2017-02)This paper probes behind the assumptions underpinning the violence reduction agendas of the UN and the World Bank: that all forms of violence are commensurate and fit neatly into causal models; that violence is ‘development ... -
Electoral Competitiveness, Tax Bargaining and Political Incentives in Developing Countries: Evidence from Political Budget Cycles Affecting Taxation
(Cambridge University Press, 2016-04-14)Studies of political budget cycles in developing countries have generally sought to inform understanding of short-term fiscal dynamics, but can also offer unique insight into broader political dynamics in developing ... -
Revenue Reform and Statebuilding in Anglophone Africa
(Elsevier, 2014-01-01)Although increasingly justified in terms of statebuilding, recent tax reforms in anglophone Africa contributed only modestly to that goal. They have produced impressive tax agencies, but no detectable increases in revenue ... -
Taxation and Development: a Review of Donor Support to Strengthen Tax Systems in Developing Countries
(Wiley Online Library, 2014-08-05)Recent years have seen a growing interest among donors on taxation in developing countries. This reflects a concern for domestic revenue mobilisation to finance public goods and services, as well as recognition of the ... -
Who Drives China's Renewable Energy Policies? Understanding the Role of Industrial Corporations
(Elsevier, 2017)This paper investigates the rise of a policy community in China's renewable energy sectors. After a decade of spectacular expansion of wind and solar energy industries, a PC that comprises both government and industrial ... -
Introduction: Security in the Vernacular and Peacebuilding at the Margins; Rethinking Violence Reduction
(Taylor and Francis Goup, 2017)This article introduces a Peacebuilding special issue on rethinking security, peacebuilding and violence reduction in the light of Sustainable Development Goal 16 on ‘promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable ... -
Zoonotic Diseases: Who Gets Sick, and Why? Explorations from Africa
(Taylor and Francis online, 2017)Global risks of zoonotic disease are high on policy agendas. Increasingly, Africa is seen as a ‘hotspot’, with likely disease spillovers from animals to humans. This paper explores the social dynamics of disease exposure, ...