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    Health systems and the right to health: an assessment of 194 countries

    AED Center for Global Health Communication and Marketing, 2008
    60 years ago the Universal Declaration of Human Rights laid the foundations for the right to the highest attainable standard of health. This right is central to the creation of equitable health systems.
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    Local government of Rwanda

    Local government of Rwanda site. Declares as it's mission statement: 'Promoting the well-being of the population by good governance, community development and social affairs.
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    Components of integrity: data and benchmarks for tracking trends in Government

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    The main aim of this document is to help governments better assess the implementation and impact of policies and measures in the public sector. It provides evidence-based comparative information on measures for fostering integrity and resistance to corruption in public organizations.
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    Is it wrong to rank? A critical assessment of corruption indices

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2006
    This paper highlights the importance of collecting information on corruption and delves into the critical aspects of cross-country composite corruption indices. The author states that the impact of most anti-corruption efforts is uncertain because it is often debated on the basis of weak information.
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    Developing indicators to measure the rule of law: A global approach

    Vera Institute of Justice, 2008
    Governance and rule of law performance indicators have emerged as a tool for tracking progress. This is a report about a pilot project which developed a set of 60 rule of law indicators designed to assess and be tested on the cities of Chandigarh in India, Lagos-Nigeria, Santiago-Chile and New York in USA.
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    Learning to Share: Explaining the Conditions under Which States Delegate Governance

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2009
    This paper seeks to investigate why and when states delegate governance functions to others—and why the other agrees to take on the responsibilities. The author seeks to determine the conditions under which host states and external actors enact these self-enforcing equilibria.
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    Education and democratic preferences

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2009
    This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals are in a better position to assess the effects of public policies and hence favour democracy where their opinions matter, the empirical analysis uses World Values Surveys to study the link between education and democratic attitudes. Findings:
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    Social mobility in Latin America: a review of existing evidence

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2009
    This paper reviews evidence on social mobility in Latin America. While Latin America has improved education mobility in recent decades, it still presents lower education mobility than in developed countries. The paper also reviews studies on the main determinants of the region’s low levels of social mobility. The paper provides information on issues such as
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    Political institutions, intertemporal cooperation, and the quality of policies

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2009
    In all states, public policies play a fundamental role in influencing economic and social outcomes. This paper builds cross-country indicators of policy capabilities drawing from available broad cross-national sources from the Inter-American Development Bank, in which policy characteristics were constructed for 18 Latin American countries.
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    Reforms and counter-reforms in Bolivia

    International Data Base, 2009
    This paper analyzes reforms and counter-reforms in Bolivia in recent decades and their effects on the policymaking process (PMP) and productivity. Bolivia’s PMP has shifted from a formal representative democracy to a 'participative and direct type of democracy' where street protest and other non-conventional forms of political participation have become dominant.

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