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Where is Local Government Going in Latin America?: a comparative perspective
International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 1998A major process of decentralisation has been under way in Latin America since the mid-1980s. The reasons for it have been extensively debated. The main features of this process, including greater formal political autonomy for and financial strengthening of local government, as well as the transfer of competencies from central to local government, have also been widely discussed.DocumentThe Role of International Financial Institutions in the Current Global Economy, Address to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations: Joseph Stiglitz, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, The World Bank
World Bank, 1998DocumentCase Studies of Two Women's Health Projects in Bolivia
Family Health International, 1996Profiles two programs in Bolivia: La Casa de la Mujer in Santa Cruz and the Kumar Warmi (Health Woman) clinic operated by the Centro de Informacion y Desarrollo de la Mujer (CIDEM) in El Alto. Both programs involve women in the design and delivery of health care, and both offer health care as one of an array of services designed to improve women's quality of life.DocumentTowards a New Partnership: Assessment of Government Performance
European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1998Lome IV is approaching its natural conclusion. In cooperation of the EU with the ACP countries, the EU has decided to move away from what it calls a partnership dominated by a 'culture of entitlement' to a more practical, realistic and business-like partnership.DocumentDoes Corruption Affect Income Inequality and Poverty?
International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1998Studies of the consequences of corruption have mainly focused on economic efficiency. This paper illustrates that corruption can also have distributional consequences.DocumentThe limits and merits of participation
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997Once a shout from the radical fringe, the call for participation has resurfaced as a dominant voice in development thinking. But the new truth may be flawed. The goal of economic development is to increase growth and eliminate poverty. Recently, the goal has been broadened to include promoting participatory governance.DocumentLocal Government and Households in Primary Education in Tanzania: Some lessons for Reform
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998The roles of the formal and informal involvement of local governments, local elites, teachers and households in decision making about primary education in selected rural districts are analysed, as are some of the outcomes of this involvement. Lessons for reforms with respect to decentralization, financing and school choice are drawn.DocumentAid, Taxation, and Development: Analytical Perspectives on Aid Effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998Designing effective aid programs requires accurately diagnosing problems.DocumentPolitical, economic and social institutions : a review of growth evidence
Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998Integrates North's institutional framework with the notion of institutions in the augmented Solow growth model, to clarify the direct and indirect channels by which institutions influence growth. Four ways to extend the Solow model in order to incorporate a rôle for institutions are outlined; and growth regressions are reinterpreted in this light.DocumentSmall and large price reforms
Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1996A simple model of an open exchange economy with two commodities is used to investigate the relative merits of small and large reforms: reforms are represented as movements in the relative price of the two commodities, achieved by tightening or relaxing quotas.Pages