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Annotated bibliography on developmental states, political settlements and citizenship formation: towards increased state capacity and legitimacy?
Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2012Policymakers and academics agree that an effective state is the foundation for inclusive development, whilst also recognising the critical role of non-state actors in the delivery of goods and services to poor people.DocumentGender, ICTs and Agriculture
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2002This report examines the digital divide that exists between developing nations of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific and the rest of the world. The report highlights the following issues:DocumentCommunity self-mobilisation to end open defecation
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008With the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach, communities analyse their sanitation conditions, understand the impact of open defecation on health and the environment, and take collective action to end open defecation (OD).DocumentFinancing primary health care
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008Today, millions of people in low- and middle-income countries do not have access to basic, good quality health services. The Alma Ata Declaration in 1978 defined primary health care as basic health care built on technically sound and socially adequate approaches, universally accessible and affordable to all individuals.DocumentMeasuring health inequality among children in developing countries: does the choice of the indicator of economic status matter?
BioMed Central, 2003This study, published by BioMed Central, compares the impact of four different wealth indices on the measurement of health inequality among children in developing countries. The study uses the World Bank Asset Index and three other indices, all based on household assets, to analyse data from Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Chad, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Pakistan, Tanzania and Uganda.DocumentTrade liberalization and the structure of poverty in developing countries
Global Trade Analysis Project, 2003This paper gives an analysis of the structure of poverty across a range of developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and explores how national poverty rates could be affected by global trade liberalization.Some of the main findings from this analysis are:the poor tend to be more specialized in the earnings sources than the non-poor, which makes them more vulnerable to traDocumentBudgetary institutions and expenditure outcomes : binding governments to fiscal performance
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996How institutional arrangements affect incentives governing the size, allocation, and use of budgetary resources and improve transparency and accountability binding key players to particular fiscal outcomes and making it costly for them to misbehave.Campos and Pradhan examine how institutional arrangements affect incentives that govern the size, allocation, and use of budgetary resources.
