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Journal Article
28 January 2016
Two Cheers for CCTs
In the rush to meet Millennium Development Goal (MDG) commitments to halve extreme poverty by 2015, ‘conditional cash transfers’...
Journal Article
11 January 2016
A ‘Systemic Theories of Change’ Approach for Purposeful Capacity Development
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
In this article, we present an emergent capacity development approach that we are developing through participatory action research in...
Journal Article
4 January 2016
Why Participation Matters: Communal Drinking Water Management in Bolivia and Ecuador
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
In the past 30 years, Drinking Water Users' Associations (DWUAs) have emerged in peri‐urban and rural areas in Bolivia and Ecuador...
Publication
1 May 2011
Coalition Erosion and Presidential Instability in Ecuador
Published by: Wiley
This article advances the idea that coalition formation and maintenance in highly fragmented presidential regimes is not only crucial to...
Publication
1 October 2010
Policymaking in Multiparty Presidential Regimes: A Comparison between Brazil and Ecuador
Published by: Wiley-Blackwell
This paper explores why two countries with similar electoral, partisan, and presidential institutions, have produced significantly different policy outcomes in Latin America. Brazil and Ecuador are conventionally known as having highly fragmented party systems, where legislators have great incentives to cultivate a personal vote.
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24 May 2010
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1 April 2010
Fairtrade Bananas: A Global Assessment of Impact
Published by: IDS
When the idea of conversion of the conventional banana trade to a more sustainable system under the Fairtrade label was first raised in the Windward Islands in the late 1990s, there was much scepticism about the viability of the idea.
Book
9 March 2010
Gobernabilidad Democrática. Sistema Electoral, Partidos Políticos y Sistema Electoral en Ecuador: 1978-1998
Published by: Fundación Konrad Adenauer
Publication
1 January 2010