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Political economy

Date started: 15 January 2011
Understanding the characteristics, networks and activities of civil servants of the Government of Nigeria
The aim of this project is to create a data set from interviews with civil servants from across the national government of Nigeria.
Date started: 15 January 2010
Investigating the complexity of public goods
This project investigates the impact of different forms of complexity - the complications that arise in the physical implementation of public goods - have on the delivery of public goods in Nigeria.
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Evaluation of Familias en Acción
01 January 2002
Familias en acción is a program very similar to the Mexican Progresa and consists of cash transfers conditional mainly on school attendance. Empleo en acción is a temporary employment program targeted at generating low skill employment. Jóvenes en acción is a program of job training (through courses and apprenticeship schemes) for young urban unemployed.
Evaluation of a microfinance sanitation intervention (FINISH) in India
01 April 2010
The United Nations University (UNU/Merit) together with the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS, UK) is responsible for the evaluation of the programme interventions.
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