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Why is the quality of children's education in Rwanda surprisingly low?

Dr Tim Williams 24 August 2016 When it comes to children’s education in Rwanda, the government is oriented towards action:

Will new governance approaches fix the public sector reform agenda?

14 March 2016 [Blog post excerpted from Yanguas & Bukenya (2016), 'New' approaches confront 'old' challengers in African public sector

In it to win it? How powerful political elites manipulate education resources in Ghana

11 January 2016    ESID's Abdul Gafaru Abdulai and Sam Hickey have just published their article on Ghana's political settlement

'New' approaches confront 'old' challenges in African public sector reform

11 January 2016 By Pablo Yanguas. After a bit of a delay, my article with Badru Bukenya on new approaches

Breaking the rules, breaking the game: Ideas and protest in the shifting Honduran political settlement

7 October 2015 By Sarah Hunt. One aspect of ESID’s novel approach to political settlements is to examine the role

Transnational capital and the political settlement of Ghana’s oil economy

7 July 2015 By Kojo Asante and Giles Mohan. How has Ghana – one of Africa’s most celebrated democracies –

World Development publishes our research on donor political analysis

10 June 2015 Research findings from ESID's project on donor use of political analysis have now been published in the

Political analysis: sticking plaster or salvation?

29 April 2014 A conversation between Chris Jordan and Pablo Yanguas Pablo: The new ESID briefing on "Making political analysis

Building democracy from below in Uganda

4 March 2015 As much ESID research further attests, despite the widespread adoption of democratic institutions and increased economic growth

The Politics of Inclusive Development: Interrogating the Evidence

13 January 2015. Among those engaged in policy and planning of development, there is growing recognition that politics and institutions

Post-conflict inclusion and elite pacts in Solomon Islands

8 October 2014. ESID's latest working paper explores how exclusive pacts become wider political settlements, using the recent post-conflict history

The political settlement and economic growth in Cambodia

25 September 2014 By Kate Pruce. This ESID working paper, authored by Tim Kelsall and Seiha Heng, examines Cambodia's growth

Regional inequality and spending on education in Ghana: A political settlements approach

15 September 2014 By Pablo Yanguas. ESID's latest working paper investigates why some of Ghana's regions have had greater access

Ideas, interests and the politics of development change in India: capitalism, inclusion and the state

7 August 2014. ESID's latest working paper investigates how ideas and beliefs held by India's elites - political, bureaucratic, business

Briefing Paper: Discriminatory politics and MGNREGA implementation in Rajasthan

21 July 2014. ESID's latest Briefing Paper is entitled 'Supply or demand? How politics influences the implementation of the MGNREGA

‘They don’t want to work’ versus ‘They don’t want to provide work’: Seeking explanations for the decline of MGNREGA in Rajasthan’

16 July 2014. ESID's latest working paper explores the reasons behind the sharp decline in MGNREGA implementation in the Indian

Working Paper: Pro-poor urban politics

9 June 2014. ESID's latest Working Paper explores "what we have learnt about how to instigate and embed pro-poor government

Politics in the trenches of development: Mainstreaming political economy analysis in aid agencies

7 May 2014. By Pablo Yanguas. "Politics matters for development". From project officers all the way up to the heads

Governance as a Global Development Goal?

25 March 2014. There is increasing recognition that governance matters, to the point of considering it a desirable global development

How should Uganda grow?

14 March 2014. ESID's new working paper answers the question "How should Uganda grow?" Authors Ricardo Hausmann, Brad Cunningham, John

Briefing: State capacity in the post-2015 agenda

12 March 2014. ESID's latest briefing paper argues that state capacity indicators should be an integral component of the post-2015

Working Paper: Spatial inequality

5 March 2014. ESID's latest Working Paper argues that spatial inequality in developing countries is not rooted so much in