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  • Good Governance Matters in Kazakhstan 
    Knox, Colin (Astana Times, 2016-12-09)
    Good Governance Matters is the strapline of Nazarbayev University’s Graduate School of Public Policy. But what does “good governance” mean for the citizens of Kazakhstan? If Kazakhstan is to join the top 30 developed ...
  • Governance, business environment and foreign direct investments 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo; Omer, Baris (African Politics and Policy, 2015)
    In this paper we investigate the relationship between the quality of governance, the business environment and foreign direct investments. Looking at 49 countries in Africa, we present evidence supporting the claim that the ...
  • Governance in Kazakhstan: improvements but could do better 
    Janenova, S.; Knox, C. (The Astana Times, 2018-09-25)
    The World Bank Group has just published the latest governance indicators including how well Kazakhstan is performing. The picture over a 10-year period is a mixed bag. It shows that Kazakhstan has made significant improvements ...
  • HARDLY VISIBLE, HIGHLY ADMIRED? YOUTH PERCEPTIONS OF THE EU IN KAZAKHSTAN 
    Arynov, Zhanibek (Journal of Eurasian Studies, 2021)
    Youth have always been one of the central target audiences of the European Union’s (EU) policies towards Central Asia, which was once again emphasised in the recent EU Strategy for the region. This paper scrutinises how ...
  • HEALTH AND SOCIAL NEEDS OF MIGRANT CONSTRUCTION WORKERS FOR BIG SPORTING EVENTS 
    Onarheim, Kristine Husøy; Phua, Kai Hong; Babar, Zahra R; Flouris, Andreas D; Hargreaves, Sally (BMJ, 2021-08-06)
    Migrant construction workers, a subgroup of the world’s 164 million international labour migrants—the largest migrant group globally—leave their homes and families for employment opportunities in high income countries.1 ...
  • HOW COVID-19 HAS AFFECTED AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT 
    Kinyondo, Abel; Pelizzo, Riccardo (World Affairs, 2021-03-08)
    For the first 15 years of the new millennium, several countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have experienced longs spells of “sustained economic growth” that translated into considerable progress along the developmental ...
  • How do African millionaires spend their money? 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo (African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2019-04-24)
    As we noted in a previous post, Africa has 145000 High Net Worth Individuals whose assets are worth about 800 billion. Overall Africans’ net worth is estimated in 2.2 trillion US dollars. The number of HNWIs has increased ...
  • Improving Public Services: Public Administration Reform in Northern Ireland 
    Knox, Colin; Carmichael, Paul (Journal of Social Policy, 2004)
    The devolved government in Northern Ireland set about the task of putting in place ‘a modern and effective system of public administration that can deliver high quality public services to our citizens’. It did so through ...
  • IMPROVING THE EVIDENCE ON HEALTH INEQUITIES IN MIGRANT CONSTRUCTION WORKERS PREPARING FOR BIG SPORTING EVENTS 
    Flouris, Andreas D; Babar, Zahra; Ioannou, Leonidas G; Onarheim, Kristine H; Phua, Kai H; Hargreaves, Sally (BMJ, 2021)
    To host big sporting events such as the Olympic Games and the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup, countries undertake large infrastructure projects, including building new stadiums and ...
  • An Index-Based Approach to Assess the Water Availability for Irrigated Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa 
    Zaki, Nizar Abou; Haghighi, Ali Torabi; Rossi, Pekka M.; Xenarios, Stefanos; Kløve, Bjørn (Water, 2018-07-05)
    Agriculture is a major economic sector in sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, where it contributes 32 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) and employs 65 percent of the population. However, SSA countries are ...
  • Inequality, segregation and poor performance: the education system in Northern Ireland 
    Borooah, Vani K.; Knox, Colin (Educational Review, 2016)
    Northern Ireland is now a post-conflict society but one of the legacies of the “troubles” is an education system which is defined by religious affiliation/identity. A parallel system of schools continues to exist where ...
  • Innovating Public Service Delivery in Transitional Countries: The Case of One Stop Shops in Kazakhstan 
    Janenova, Saltanat; Kim, Pan Suk (International Journal of Public Administration, 2016-02-16)
    This article analyses the implementation of managerial ideas in Kazakhstan using the case of a combined public service delivery called “One Stop Shops”. Several public services are provided in a single building rather than ...
  • Introducing a Regulatory Policy Framework of Bait Fishing in European Coastal Lagoons: The Case of Ria de Aveiro in Portugal 
    Xenarios, Stefanos; Queiroga, Henrique; Lillebø, Ana I.; Aleixo, Ana (Fishes, 2018-01-05)
    The harvesting of bait through digging in coastal mudflats is practiced for recreational and commercial purposes in European coastal systems including the Ria de Aveiro coastal lagoon on the northwest Atlantic coast of ...
  • ‘Joined-Up’ Government: An integrated response to communal violence in Northern Ireland? 
    Knox, Colin (Policy and Politics, 2003)
    The growing recognition that social problems are multi-faceted and need to be tackled in a way which cut-across traditional departmental boundaries has heralded the advent of joined-up government. Yet this new emphasis ...
  • JOSIAH CHILD, INTEREST RATES, AND JOHN LOCKE’S “FOR A GENERAL NATURALIZATION” 
    Smith, Brian (Modern Intellectual History, 2021)
    Throughout the 1690s there were several high-profile parliamentary debates about lowering inter est rates from 6 to 4 percent. Locke’s involvement in these policy debates is significant. In this period, he circulated at ...
  • Kazakhstan: Modernising Government in the Context of Political Inertia 
    Knox, Colin (International Review of Administrative Sciences, 2008)
    Kazakhstan declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and joined the Commonwealth of Independent States. Since then it has witnessed a remarkable economic transformation under the leadership of President ...
  • Korean lesson for Africa 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo (African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2019-07-31)
    The South Korean case has extensively been investigated by political economists. It was one of the best known cases of a developmental state -a state that, by making the right choices, is able to create the conditions for ...
  • LEGALITY OF RULE OF LAW WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS: A CASE OF “ULTRA-SINOISM” 
    Younas, Ammar (Russian Law Journal, 2020)
    The legal progression in China is portrayed negatively by western scholars who often argue that the state institutions in China are subordinate to the control of Chinese Communist Party’s leadership which makes these ...
  • New Estimates of Factor Income Shares in Central Asian Economies 
    Thampapillai, Dodo J.; Chen, Yvonne Jie; Bacani, Christopher Ivo; Baris, Omer (Economic Papers, 2016)
    This paper illustrates a simple method to derive the income accounts in the context of limited macroeconomic data. The method is relevant for several developing countries where the statements on income are clearly absent ...
  • News from Africa: the good, the bad and the ugly 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo (African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2019-08-02)
    Some news are good and possibily very good: in Mozambique, the government and RENAMO have signed a peace deal, while, according to President Buhari, 5 million Nigerians have been lifted out of poverty in the past three years...