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    Turkey says 'No' to presidential government

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    The ruling party in Turkey for 13 years, the AKP (Justice and Development Party) failed to secure the 276 seats required to form a majority government in the last general election held on June 7 this year.
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    Changed regimes, changed priorities? Economic and social policies after the 2011 elections in Tunisia and Egypt

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    Even though systematic, detailed, and methodologically sound explanations of the events commonly referred to as the Arab spring will take time to be completed, it is fair to assume that large-scale popular protests and the subsequent transformation of political regimes were  prompted by a combination of socio-economic and political factors.
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    Researching the politics of gender: A new conceptual and methodological approach (Research Framing Paper 1)

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014
    A significant gap exists between the political settlements literature and the mainstream feminist literature on women in politics.
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    Supply or demand? How politics influences the implementation of the MGNREGA in Rajasthan

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014
    The recent performance of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has been a matter of debate. Rajasthan, especially, performed impressively in the initial years of its National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), but experienced a sharp decline (even relative to other states) in outcomes from 2010 onwards.
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    Mainstreaming political economy analysis in donor agencies

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014
    ESID’s comparative research on political economy analysis (PEA) within DFID and the World Bank demonstrates that the internal dynamics of aid bureaucracies constitutes the greatest obstacle to its dissemination. For PEA to have greater impact, its proponents will need to promote organisational change.
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    How should Uganda grow?

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014
    Income per capita in Uganda has doubled in the last 20 years. However, economic growth has been concentrated in non-tradable activities and faces challenges, including rapid rural population growth, high dependency ratios and an approaching oil boom of uncertain size and duration.
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    Closing the gap between form and function: a new approach to institutional reform in Uganda

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014
    Uganda is a public sector reform leader in Africa. Over the last three decades the country has introduced many laws, processes and structures that are ‘best in class’ in Africa (and beyond). However, many of the reforms have produced new institutional forms that function poorly and yield limited impacts.
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    Success and failure in MGNREGA implementation in India

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014
    The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) – offering up to 100 days work each year to rural Indians – is the largest social protection programme in the world, in terms of the number of households covered. There is a lively debate around whether it provides a vital social safety net for the poor or merely burdens the economy.
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    Internationalization of regional clusters: theoretical and empirical issues

    State University Higher School of Economics,, Russian Federation, 2015
    Today regions are becoming independent actors able to compete globally as globalization of competition is consistent with the localization of competitive advantage. In many ways regional competitiveness is based on the clustering concept. Changes in the global economic environment are making cluster linkages more important, too.
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    Topic Guide: Planning and financing of the effective maintenance of infrastructure

    Evidence on Demand, 2015
    The purpose of this Topic Guide is give DFID advisers and programme managers sufficient awareness and understanding of current key issues relating to the planning and financing for effective maintenance of infrastructure. The guide is brief and therefore only introduces each key issue.

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