Adil Najam, Saleemul Huq, Youba Sokona
Abstract Five years down the road from Kyoto, the Protocol that bears that city's name still awaits enough qualifying ratifications to come into force. While attention has been understandably focussed on the ratification process, it is time to begin thinking about the next steps for the global clima...
Sabeel Rahman
The presence of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in developing countries is often assumed to indicate a vibrant civil society that can help promote good governance and effective policy implementation where state infrastructure is weak. Using the case of Bangladesh, this study argues that the NG...
Suborna Barua
Abstract Sustainable development goal (SDG) implementation is still at an early stage globally. Implementation of the SDGs in developing countries particularly appears very complex and challenging. A key challenge encountered by policymakers at the national and international levels is the prevailing...
Ronald Inglehart, Christian Welzel
In the last several years, a democratic boom has given way to a democratic recession. Between 1985 and 1995, scores of countries made the transition to democracy, bringing widespread euphoria about democracy's future. But more recently, democracy has retreated in Bangladesh, Nigeria, the Philippines...
Simone Dietrich, Minhaj Mahmud, Matthew S. Winters
Foreign aid donors make themselves visible as the funders of development projects to improve citizen attitudes abroad. Do target populations receive these political communications in the intended fashion, and does the information succeed in changing attitudes? Despite the widespread use of various m...
Pauline Rose
This paper focuses on approaches by non‐government organisations (NGOs) to reach primary school‐aged children excluded from access to the conventional state education system. It highlights recent shifts in international literature and agency priorities from the portrayal of NGO provision as a (non‐f...
Irene Dankelman
M. Shamsul Haque
In recent years, while the significance of the state has diminished, the role of non-governmental organizations ( ngo s) has increased in most developing countries. Although ngo s are often identified with powerless groups, they themselves have become powerful and influential, especially because of ...
Anisul M. Islam
Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries in the world. Since independence in 1971, Bangladesh has received a large inflow of foreign capital from various countries for rapid economic progress. Bangladesh thus provides a test case for examining the effectiveness of foreign capital in promoting econ...
Adrian Leftwich
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Atul Kohli, ‘State, society and development’, in: Ira Katnelson & Helen V. Milner (eds), Political Science: The State of the Discipline (W. W. Norton & Co., 2002), p. 117. 2. Dani Rodrik, ‘Growth strategies’, in: Philippe Aghion & Ste...
Xin Zhou, Mustafa Moinuddin, Ming Xu
While being broadly framed as 17 separate and diverse elements, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and associated targets inherently interlink with one another making up indivisible parts of sustainability from a systemic perspective. Actions or measures taken for achieving one goal may be mutuall...
Faisal Z. Ahmed, Anne Regan Greenleaf, Audrey Sacks
James Reilly
Abstract As China expands its development assistance in Southeast Asia, is Chinese aid beginning to emulate international norms and practices or sustaining its own distinct approach to development assistance? This essay argues that China's socialization into international norms varies with the thick...
L. Alan Winters, Thomas W. Hertel
This study reports on the findings from a major international research project investigating the poverty impacts of a potential Doha Development Agenda (DDA). It combines in a novel way the results from several strands of research. First, it draws on an intensive analysis of the DDA Framework Agreem...
A Dijkstra
This article analyses the effectiveness of the setting of policy conditions in exchange for aid. Given the emerging consensus that this process is not effective, this article focuses on explaining why not. In analysing the experiences of eight countries — Bangladesh, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Nicaragu...