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Auto-enrolment of free school meals: a 'No Brainer'? [PDF]

open access: yesPublic Health Nutr
Bryant M   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Contesting Regulatory Capacity: Exploring Doctrines in the Regulatory State

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The contemporary literature on regulation and development has emphasised the importance of low discretion devices for achieving desired policy objectives. At the same time, there has been a growing recognition that state capacity in general, and regulatory capacity more specifically, are essential for achieving development goals in a world of ...
Bruno Queiroz Cunha, Martin Lodge
wiley   +1 more source

Decentralisation and Legal Pluralism in Small Towns in Uganda

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Weak decentralization, authoritarianism and limited economic development in small towns in Uganda have been seen as key obstacles to political inclusion. However, small towns in theory also hold hope for political inclusion due to the potential for more direct citizen engagement and flexibility to be able to respond to citizens' needs. Drawing
Ana Maria Vargas Falla   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The persistence of failure in water, sanitation and hygiene programming: a qualitative study. [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Glob Health
Barrington DJ   +17 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Development Expertise: Essential or Expendable? Comparing Interactions Between Knowledge and Experience in German and Norwegian Foreign Aid Bureaucracies

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We respond to the lack of measurable conceptualisations of expertise in development agencies by investigating its focus and appreciation in two national aid administrations as a function of knowledge and experience. We apply this definition of expertise to qualitative data from interviews with 58 randomly selected officials at the German ...
Daniel E. Esser, Heiner Janus
wiley   +1 more source

The Death of USAID: How Elon Musk and Donald Trump Ended America's Foreign Aid Agency

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT USAID served for decades as a vehicle for both US soft power and foreign aid. Within the first days of the Trump administration, the agency was effectively closed, its staff told to go home and its funding frozen. It is impossible to understand the demise of USAID without understanding the broader contours of American governance during the ...
Donald Moynihan, Rachael Zuppke
wiley   +1 more source

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