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Gender mainstreaming as a global policy paradigm has been “universally” accepted as a revolutionary strategy to achieve gender equality since the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995. This “global” policy has been moved across scales over country boundaries, and political an…

Traffic congestion is a significant cost to society, amounting to somewhere between 1 and 2% of GDP according to an EU-wide survey (CE Delft, 2011). To address this cost, road pricing has long been viewed as the first best solution although issues with public and political accep…

This thesis investigates how external sources inform and impact Somaliland’s national teacher education policy making processes. In this research, external factor is mainly constituted by INGOs that are helping Somaliland’s education and teacher education re-construction which a…

In 2002, the Indian government initiated a broad range of programmes that proposed market-based reforms for water. Inspired by World Bank’s policy ideas, the processes have often led to conflicts in India. The conventional wisdom on water sector policies in developing countries …

This is an exploratory, qualitative study of the transfer of public management reform policies and performance-based budgeting from abroad into Thailand and Malaysia. The three sources for data are: in-depth interviews with elite officials; document research; and participant obs…

A highly restrictive and over-regulated space, the urban night has been historically omitted from governance structures. Nestled in a tradition of leisure and culture that began in the 1990s, the night became a subset of cultural studies and a staple of plans to revitalize the p…