The 2005 Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness sets targets for increased use by donors of recipient country systems for managing aid. A consensus view holds that country systems are strengthened when...
Much has recently been achieved in education in developing countries. UNESCO reports that the number of out-of-school children fell by 24 million between 1999 and 2005, and in nearly two-thirds of countries...
China has very large numbers of "missing girls," resulting in significant gender imbalance in the population. Government's policies have sought to change the cultural preference for sons which is believed...
Community growth promotion is one widely advocated approach to promoting recommended practices for child care such as exclusive breast feeding up to six months of life and other aspects of child care such...
For China, health shocks, with the exception of unemployment, are the ones most likely to impoverish. Of the most commonly reported shocks, crop failure is first, illness of a working member of a household...
Collective action theory suggests that when numerous donors each provide only a small fraction of a country's total aid, responsibility for the country's development success or failure is diffused. Donors...
The fungibility of aid, in which donor aid earmarked for a project substitutes for rather than supplements local spending intended for that purpose, has important implications for its effectiveness. And...
Courting social justice: judicial enforcement of social and economic rights in the developing world is the first systematic and comparative effort to document the impact of courts on policy making across...
The target of universal education remains elusive: worldwide, around 100 million children of primary school age are not in school. Children with disabilities face particular hurdles in attending, and completing...
As more data from war regions become available, the microeconomic impact of civil war and genocide in particular, for non-combatants is coming into better focus. A study on Cambodia is based on one survey...
Do rural areas benefit when their residents migrate to cities? A new national identity card and a program to facilitate legal temporary residence in the cities have made migration easier for rural residents...
This brief includes the following headings: behavioral changes in nutrition, feeding, and hygiene practices are more effective when bundled with maternal education and community infrastructure; evidence...