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Changing Course: Alternative Approaches to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals and Fight HIV/AIDS

Sep 24, 2005

ActionAid International USA speaks to national and international networks of HIV/AIDS, health, and education advocates and explores ideas for more expansionary alternative fiscal and monetary policies being proposed by economists

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Program-Based Budgeting in Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A New Dataset

Nov 07, 2018

November 2018 | by Jason Lakin, Ph.D. and Suad Hasan, International Budget Partnership Click to Download »

A large number of low- and middle-income countries have either recently introduced, are

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National Budget 2019: New funding mechanisms for informal settlement upgrading

Apr 26, 2019

April 2019 | International Budget Partnership South Africa

This edition of Metro Budget Notes discusses important changes in South African national government grants to metropolitan municipalities that could increase the

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Earthquake Reconstruction in Pakistan: The Case of the Omar Asghar Khan Development Foundation’s Campaign

Jun 19, 2010

By Dr. Pervez Tahir

The devastating earthquake that shook the Hazara region and the Azad Kashmir province in Northwest Pakistan on October 2005 led to a flood of donor money

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Public Monitoring of School Infrastructure in South Africa: What Data Needs to be Produced and Published?

Sep 08, 2015

September 2015 | By Albert van Zyl & Carlene van der Westhuizen

If the general public is able to monitor the delivery of services, it can help hold the government

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Samarthan’s Campaign to Improve Access to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India

Aug 25, 2011

By Ramesh Awasthi (Mahila Sarvangeen Utkarsh Mandal).

This case study was updated in 2013. The full version and short summary are available in English.

In India the implementation of the

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Does the IMF Constrain Health Spending in Poor Countries? Evidence and an Agenda for Action

Jun 22, 2007

Produced by a team of 15 experts drawn from policymaking positions in developing countries, academia, civil society, and multilateral organizations, this study explores criticisms of the IMF’s macroeconomic policies and

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Exigibilidad del derecho a la salud (“Demanding the Right to Health”)

Dec 24, 2000

This article (in Spanish), discusses an attempt to use legal action to gain the right to health. Toward the end of 2000 CDES, a nongovernmental organization based in Ecuador, started

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Ukraine: Light of Hope’s Work Improving Social Services For Marginalized Groups

Oct 31, 2016

October 2016 | by Sergii Slukhai, Professor of Economics at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Ukraine

Light of Hope was founded in 1999 as a charity association with the mission

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Budgets that Exclude: The Struggle for Decent Sanitation in South Africa’s Informal Settlements

Nov 09, 2017

November 2017 | By Brendan Halloran Download »

For nearly a decade, the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) has been working to realize the rights of marginalized citizens of Khayelitsha, a

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