A comparative study of governance and learning outcomes across government primary schools, private schools and madrasas in Bangladesh, examining how differences in school-level governance and the effectiveness of horizontal checks are associated with learning outcomes.
This Research Insight introduces forthcoming SOAS ACE research on Bangladesh's July 2024 Revolution, exploring why successful collective mobilisation did not translate into lasting political transformation.
This research examines the political economy of public debt management in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, analysing how the power, capabilities, and interests of key actors shape fiscal and economic decision-making.
This briefing paper explores why Bangladesh’s 2007 ‘big bang’ anti-corruption drive failed and what it means for future reform. It highlights the limits of sweeping enforcement strategies in high-corruption contexts and draws out lessons for designing more feasible, targeted and effective anti-corruption approaches.
This working paper examines Bangladesh’s 2007–2009 anti-corruption drive — one of the most ambitious attempts to tackle corruption in a high-corruption context. It explores why the ‘big bang’ approach not only failed but ultimately contributed to a more concentrated and authoritarian political settlement, and lessons for future reform.
This synthesis of 40 studies examines corruption in health systems as a systemic feature shaped by incentives, power and informal practices. It highlights the limits of conventional approaches and outlines more politically feasible pathways to effective reform.
Stakeholder feedback on a proposed cooperative renewable energy pilot for SMEs in Nigeria, with implications for refining design, governance and financing.
This progress report documents the design, implementation and rollout of a pilot intervention to reduce health worker absenteeism in primary healthcare facilities in Enugu State, Nigeria. The project approach shifts the focus from punitive enforcement to absenteeism as a governance challenge, using the Power-Capabilities-Interest framework.
Due to the failure of grid-based supply, over 80% of SMEs in Nigeria own or use a generator, or self-generate. This is hugely damaging environmentally, as generators use diesel. Also, SMEs are not ...
This case study shows how the SOAS-ACE approach was applied to address policy-distorting corruption in Nigeria's electricity sector. The SOAS-ACE approach tackles corruption when traditional ...
