Case Studies

Indonesia’s Kecamatan Devel. Program

What: Community-driven development program where government gives block grants and citizens in communities choose projects. They hire the contractors, plan, monitor and repo [...]

Grand Challenges

Model: Use challenges to focus attention, effort on specific problems. Traced back to mathematician David Hilbert who 100+ years ago defined unsolved problems to spark progr [...]

Canada’s Local Government System

Key facts: Form of Government: constitutional monarchy; parliamentary system: bicameral; state structure: federal; local government expenditure as % of government expenditur [...]

Lebanon Electricity

Executive Summary: To speed up household payment of electricity bills, a randomized controlled trial conducted on 429 households, using hassle factor, social norm and nation [...]

Guatemala Tax

Background

• Behavioral science aims to make desired actions the easiest option.
• Unlike legislation or incentives, it often costs little to apply
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HMRC UK Tax

Make it Easy

• First principle is to consider how to make it easier for someone to do something, pay their taxes on time for example.
• Some ways to ‘ [...]
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Sports Franchise Expansion

Mission: Create a viable commercial model (through a PE fund) to grow the franchise brand in and beyond cricket, including in football- domestically and internationally. [...]