Total publications found: 103
Who is absent and why? Factors affecting doctor absenteeism in Bangladesh
Absenteeism by doctors in public healthcare facilities in rural Bangladesh is a form of chronic rule-breaking and is recognised as a critical problem by the ...
Collusive Pricing in Solar Power in Bangladesh: Mapping Informal Processes and Corruption Risks
We mapped the formal and informal processes involved in contracting for solar power projects in Bangladesh. The governance of these processes has been poor, and ...
The Persistence of Informal Practices and Payments in Digitalised Government Services: A Scoping Study of Trade Licensing in Bangladesh
Digitalisation of government services in developing countries is often heralded as a tool for enhancing transparency, improving service quality and mitigating informal payments to government ...
The overpricing of medicines in Bangladesh: Quality certification as an effective anti-corruption tool
In Bangladesh, as in many developing countries, the absence of regulatory information about the quality of medicines allows identical medicines to be sold at much ...
Breaking the cycle of corruption in Nigeria’s electricity sector: Off-grid solutions for local enterprises
Access to electricity is a major constraint to economic growth in Nigeria. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are arguably the segment of the Nigerian economy ...
The Promise of Grassroots Approaches to Solving Absenteeism in Primary Health-Care Facilities in Nigeria: Evidence from a Qualitative Study
Absenteeism among primary health-care (PHC) workers in Nigeria is widespread and is a major obstacle to achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). There is increasing research ...
Designing feasible anti-corruption strategies in the Nigerian health system: A latent class analysis of a discrete choice experiment
Health worker absenteeism is a major form of corruption in the Nigerian health system, reducing the impact of healthcare investment and disproportionately affecting vulnerable communities. ...
Actors, likely alliances and winner of Nigeria’s 2023 presidential polls
Voters in Africa’s biggest democracy, Nigeria, are preparing to go to the polls at the end of February 2023. They will elect governors, state and ...
Absenteeism in primary health centres in Nigeria: leveraging power, politics and kinship
Background Primary health centres (PHCs) in Nigeria suffer critical shortages of health workers, aggravated by chronic absenteeism that has been attributed to insufficient resources to govern ...
Networks, incentives and informal payments in the Tanzanian health system: a qualitative study
Informal payments constitute one of the most persistent problems of corruption within the Tanzanian health system. However, recent research suggests that following the Tanzanian government’s ...