The Political Economy of State-building in Situations of Fragility and Conflict
Based on over of two years of CRU research, this paper brings together the findings of five studies of states that show clear signs of illegitimacy or of a weak capacity to govern.
ARTICLE: Impact evaluation and Political Economy : what does the "Conditional" in "Conditional cash transfers" accomplish?
Interesting article from Center for Global Development
Working with the grain and swimming against the tide: Barriers to uptake of research findings on governance and public services in low-income Africa
Trade Facilitation in the Philippines - pilot case study
This short case study is based on the findings of a week of interviews with a range of trade facilitation stakeholders in the Philippines conducted in mid-November 2010, conducted by the EU Delegation in the Philippines with the support of an ECDPM consultant. The study was conceived as a pilot for field-testing an approach to assessing and addressing governance issues found at the level of different sectors.
The approach, developed by DEVCO and found in DEVCO Reference Document no 4, contains a number of steps, including:
assessing the reform context
