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How to search the database The Information Database allows you to search by using a free text search, including carrying out a separate search for documents by a particular author/s.
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Latest additions |
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Conflict: |
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What Do We Know About Natural Resources and Civil War? |
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The Conflict Analysis Framework |
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Assessment of the Ituri Disarmament and Community Reinsertion Programme (DCR) |
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The Impact of Armed Violence on Poverty and Development |
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Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa |
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The Stability Assessment Framework |
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The Influence of Aid in Situations of Violent Conflict |
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Federal Republic of Nigeria: Strategic Conflict Assessment (SCA) Report |
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A Synthesis Report: Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Nepal and Sri Lanka |
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Resource Abundance and Violent Political Conflict |
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Political Systems: |
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Parliamentary Development |
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Citizen Participation in the Policy Process |
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Political Party Aid |
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Parliaments in Sub-Saharan Africa: Actors in Poverty Reduction? |
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A Framework for Democratic Party Building |
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Guidebook on Strengthening the Representative Capacity of Legislatures |
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Electoral System Design: The New International IDEA Handbook |
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Local Governance, Finances and Service Delivery in Tanzania: A Summary of Findings from Six Councils |
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Public Policy and Policy Analysis |
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Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa |
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Public Financial Mgmt: |
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The Effects of Decentralisation on Public Investment |
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Local Governance, Finances and Service Delivery in Tanzania: A Summary of Findings from Six Councils |
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Benchmarking Tax Systems |
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Critical Success Factors for Modernising Public Financial Management Information Systems in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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Performance Measures in Tax Administration: Chile as a Case Study |
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Brazil's Tax System: The Dilemmas of Policy Reform |
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A Window of Opportunity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Incorporating a Gender Perspective in the Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration Process |
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Taxation on the Political Agenda, North and South |
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The Fiscal Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction |
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The Fiscal Effects of Aid in Malawi |
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Service Delivery: |
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Education Decentralization in Africa: A Review of Recent Policy and Practice |
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Local Governance, Finances and Service Delivery in Tanzania: A Summary of Findings from Six Councils |
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Obligatory Functions and Minimum Service Standards for Indonesian Regional Government: Searching for a Model |
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Reshaping the Future: Education and Post-Conflict Reconstruction |
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Guidance on Ethics and Equitable Access to HIV Treatment and Care |
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A Public Health Approach to Antiretroviral Treatment: Overcoming Constraints |
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Solutions When the Solution is the Problem: Arraying the Disarray in Development |
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Public Service Ethics, Monitoring Assets and Integrity Testing |
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Why We Need to Work More Effectively in Fragile States |
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Getting Systems Right: Governance and Capacity-Building |
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SSAJ: |
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Legal and Judicial Reform in German Development Cooperation |
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War and Justice in Northern Uganda: An Assessment of the International Criminal Court's Intervention |
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Human Rights and Justice Sector Reform in Africa: Contemporary Issues and Responses |
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Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Service: OECD Guidelines and Country Experiences |
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Gender and Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration |
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Privatization Policy, Challenges and Prospect(s) for Sustainable Development in Nigeria |
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Supporting Security, Justice and Development |
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Police Reform in Post-Colonial States |
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Gender Mainstreaming in Legal and Constitutional Affairs |
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Report of the Third Meeting of the Judicial Group on Strengthening Judicial Integrity |
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Selection criteria The preparation and selection of material held on the Information Database is overseen by the GRC's Content Advisory Group. |
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Feedback Please send any feedback on this service - including suggestions for new documents - to enquiries@grc.bham.ac.uk |
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