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Governance in Water Supply

Approximately 97.5% of the world’s water is salty. Of the remaining freshwater, only 0.26% is accessible. This paper reviews the institutional framework that governs the scarce supply of water services, with a specific focus on developing countries.

Does Participatory Budgeting have an Effect on the Quality of Public Services? The Case of Peru’s Water and Sanitation Sector

This study focuses on the effects of participatory budgeting, in Peru, on the provision and quality of service delivery, namely, water and sanitation coverage and quality.

On the Efficient Provision of Roads

Badly maintained road networks – or those that cost too much to maintain – tend to increase transportation costs, thereby negatively impacting development. This working paper explores alternatives to improve road provision policies, both under the traditional model and when using public-private partnerships or PPPs.

Markets and Hierarchies in Social Services in Latin America: Incentives, Institutions, and Politics

Quasi-markets are a key strategy to reform the government, by subjecting public employees to the same sorts of market pressures, incentives, and sanctions as those encountered every day by employees in the private sector. The central focus in this paper has been on analyzing the introduction of market pressures into the provision of social services.

Privatization Commercialization of Public Service Delivery: Implications for Pro-Poor Growth and Attainment of MDGs in Nigeria

This study examines the implications of privatization of services in energy, health, education and telecommunications on poverty, pro-poor growth strategies and the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Nigeria.

Decentralization, Fiscal Effort and Social Progress in Colombia at the Municipal Level, 1994-2009: Why Does National Politics Matter?

This paper is an attempt to study the interaction between a range of governance structures and variables with policy outcomes in two sectors: education and water, in Colombia. It also explores the effect of electoral competition — both local and national — at the local level, on the incentives to build fiscal capacity and provide quality public goods.

Impacts of a Government Social Franchise Model on Perceptions of Service Quality and Client Satisfaction at Commune Health Stations in Vietnam

This study is intended to evaluate the effectiveness of a government social franchise (GSF) model, developed to improve health and family planning services, tested for the first time at Vietnam’s commune health stations or CHSs.

GDN Education Issues Paper

This paper reviews governance and institutional challenges facing educational systems in developing countries, to serve as a background for GDN’s Global Research Project on Governance and Public Service Delivery.

Congestion Charge in São Paulo City: Likely Traffic Effects

Aiming to reduce vehicles traffic in downtown Sao Paulo (Brazil), a circulation restriction known as "rodizio" (or "rotation") was implemented in 1998. Cars with certain license plates were allowed into the city on rotation, during different days of the week. However, gridlock challenges persist.

Land Use Regulations and Urbanization in the Developing World: Evidence from over 600 Cities

This paper examines the determinants of land use regulation and their relationship to various urban outcomes. The study uses data from the Doing Business project of the World Bank (including the Enterprise Surveys) that measure several aspects of land use regulations in almost 700 cities in over 180 countries around the world.

Effects of Governance Models in Transition Countries

This research presumes that the process of development in transition countries has a similar, common point of origin

Effect of Governance on Public Service Delivery in the Water Sector in Senegal

This research investigates the effectiveness of critical governance mechanisms such as citizen participation, accountability and transparency, and how they affect public service delivery in the water sector in Senegal

Markets and Hierarchies in Social Services in Latin America: Incentives, Institutions, and Politics

This paper develops a framework for analyzing the problems and challenges – in incentives, institutions and politics – that arise in implementing education reforms in the context of Latin America.

Varieties of Governance, Varying Outcomes

In economies such as India, a significant concern is the inability of large sections of the population to access essential services such as water and education

Congestion Charge in Sao Paulo city: Likely Traffic Effects

This report aims to estimate the welfare and traffic effects of a hypothetical congestion charge in Sao Paulo.

Location of the Poor: Neighborhood Versus Household Characteristics: The Case of Bogota

In Latin American cities there is a high correlation between the location chosen by poor households and their income level; however, it is difficult to identify to what extent they live there by choice

Urban Externalities in the Small Developing Countries of Asia and Latin America: A Comparative Case Study Analysis of Squatter Settlements in Nepal (Kathmandu) and Ecuador (Quito)

Rapid urbanization has led to a spurt in the number of squatter settlements.

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Water Sector in the Philippines

This paper presents a brief background of the development and cost‐effectiveness of two water districts (WDs) in the Philippines.

Land Reforms and Land Rights Change: An Ethnographic Case Study of Land Stressed Groups in the Nkoranza South Municipality of Ghana

This paper is about land rights in Ghana, and how these are changing.

Taxation, foreign aid and political governance: figures to the facts of a celebrated literature

This paper investigates the underpinning Somaliland-based hypothesis that foreign aid dilutes the positive role of taxation on political governance.

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