Facilitative reforms, democratic accountability, social accounting and learning representative initiatives

Mapping peer learning initiatives in public sector reforms in development

Terminology Community of Practice Groups of people who, despite geographical distance, share a concern or a passion for something that they do and generally seek to learn how to do it better as many of them interact regularly (adapted from (Wenger, n/d, p.1). Communities of practice comprise: a professional/technical/functional domain (they are not merely a club of friends or a network of conne...

Accounting for Accountability

Accounting for Accountability

Accounting , Accountability , Closeness and Transparency

[The] understanding which is relevant to the sciences of man is something more than this implicit grasp on things. It is related rather to the kind of understanding we invoke in personal relations when we say, for instance: ‘I find him hard to understand’; or at last I understand her’. To switch for a minute to another language, it is the kind of understanding one invokes in French when one say...

Democratic Reforms, Foreign Aid and Production Inefficiency

We construct an endogenous growth model and we employ empirical analysis to investigate the link between foreign aid and production inefficiency in the presence of different political orientations in the recipient country. Using a panel of 124 countries from 1971 to 2007 and the production frontier toolbox, controlling for unobserved heterogeneity, time horizons, the sources of aid, and the tim...