In 2008, Vian reported an increasing interest in understanding how corruption affects healthcare outcomes and asked what could be done to combat corruption in the ...
The existence of skills gaps and mismatches has been widely documented in several developing countries. Tanzania is no exception here. Highly subsidised vocational education and ...
Sugar scarcity is a widespread phenomenon across the African continent. National governments cover the so-called ‘sugar gap’ – the difference between domestically produced sugar and ...
Absenteeism – unauthorised employee absence from the workplace – is one of the most common forms of corruption among frontline health workers. Despite having an extensive infrastructure, ...
This briefing outlines the complex story of corruption and inefficiencies that straddles the entire electricity value chain – generation, transmission and distribution – in Nigeria. It puts forward ...
The privatisation of the Nigerian electricity sector was a much-anticipated reform exercise. Launched in 2010, the exercise was intended to modernise the sector and cater to ...
Publicly funded skills training programmes have generated poor employment and productivity outcomes across developing countries because the governance of skills programmes is not straightforward. Value ...
This briefing paper tests the hypothesis that improving the organisational capabilities of firms in tandem with skills training is an effective and feasible anti-corruption strategy in developing countries. It ...
Vocational skills development and the effective organisation of skills are crucial for countries to be able to enhance their industrial competitiveness and, as a result, ...
More skills, higher levels of skills, and different kinds of skills have to be developed and effectively organised if countries are to be able to ...
