Total publications found: 103
Incentivising doctor attendance in rural Bangladesh: a latent class analysis of a discrete choice experiment
Abstract Objective Doctor absenteeism is widespread in Bangladesh, and the perspectives of the actors involved are insufficiently understood. This paper sought to elicit preferences of doctors ...
The economics and politics of integrating renewables into electricity concessions in Lebanon
Lebanon desperately needs power. Its severe economic crisis, combined with its dependence on fossil fuels, is leading to a rapid deterioration in its electricity provision. ...
Models for tackling Lebanon’s electricity crisis
Lebanon’s electricity sector is suffering severe challenges, with increasingly frequent and lengthy blackouts and a serious risk of the collapse of the entire system. The national electricity utility, ...
Supply-side factors influencing informal payment for healthcare services in Tanzania
Informal payments for healthcare are widespread in sub-Saharan Africa. They are often regressive, potentially limiting access to quality healthcare, particularly for the most vulnerable, and ...
Anti-corruption in Uganda’s drug shops: do surplus health workers offer a high-impact, feasible solution?
In many African countries, the majority of sick adults and children seek healthcare from medicine retail outlets which are licensed to sell over-the-counter drugs. This ...
Feasible pathways for energy transition in Tanzania: shifting unproductive subsidies towards targeted green rents
Tanzania’s energy sector is at a crossroads. After almost two decades punctuated by corruption scandals and increasing financial unsustainability of the country’s state-owned public utility the Tanzania ...
Breaking the impasse: aligning incentives to address corruption in Tanzania’s skills sector
Tanzania’s skills sector is characterised by significant mistrust between public and private stakeholders. Despite a strong joint interest in developing skills, outcomes are undermined by ...
Standards and rents: a study of market distortions and anti-corruption in Malawi’s steel industry
This paper is one of three country research studies analysing industry arrangements that are potentially corrupt and anti-competitive in the supply of steel products in ...
The political economy of the steel sector in Tanzania: power relations and patterns of decline and growth over time
The trajectory of Tanzania’s steel sector over the past 20 years has been driven by expansion in the construction sector and building projects related to ...
Tanzania’s ‘rice bowl’: production success, scarcity persistence and rent seeking in the East African Community
Rice is a ‘political crop’. As the second most important staple crop after maize in people’s diets in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), rice attracts considerable domestic ...