... of the University of California 2021 corruption social development bureaucracy governance sanitation In 1969 the economist Dudley Seers argued in a famous speech that scholars and practitioners should focus less on economic growth and more on direct measures of well-being, such as poverty...

... health loans correspond to reduced maternal mortality. This paper highlights the utility of theories from other domains (e.g., organizational theory) for understanding the emergent patterns and effects of global and regional governance institutions in health. Jafflin examines how the World Health...

... of these partnerships in international agricultural development, which seek to shift power dynamics and counter market exclusion, and the internal logic of these hybrid governance approaches, which reflect the tensions of market society from which they come. We present case studies from Honduras, Peru, and Mali...

...Amm Quamruzzaman Although the positive developmental effects of infrastructure provisioning are well documented, research on the potential role of governance in the improvement of infrastructure performance and individual-level service utilization is lacking. I explore the effect of infrastructure...