Publications

A large number of international organisations support agricultural research in Tanzania. Many, but not all of these are coordinated by the Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers (CGIAR). Others are similar but private, such as the International Centre for Insect Physiology (ICIPE) which is based in Nairobi, Kenya. The above receive support from international donors such as the World Bank and USAID, and from major NGOs such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Mandated fuel regulation for public vehicles has been a leading instrument used in many south Asian cities to reduce pollution and improve urban air quality. In India, the trend was set in 2001 when the Supreme Court ruled that all buses, taxis and auto-rickshaws in the capital New Delhi must run on compressed natural gas (CNG). Under the court’s directive, similar regulatory initiatives were set in motion in several other medium and large Indian cities.

Information asymmetry between voters and governments is a key determinant of democratic failure. This is the underlying premise of new IGC-funded research by Jessica Gottlieb (Stanford University) which examines how improving voter expectations of local government capacity in Mali can increase government performance. The research finds that increasing the understanding of a citizen about what their government has the potential capacity to do leads to voting more likely to be based on performance, rather than as a result of kinship ties or gift-giving.