The government of Croatia has been committed to adopting digital policy solutions for years. The health sector was a focal point of this commitment. As is the case in many countries, Croatia’s health system is quite bureaucratic and generates lots of data—about patients and their care—in bureaucratic silos. The scattered nature of this data has negatively affected both health care quality and cost.
This paper synthesizes 140 interviews with European leaders to investigate how global action problems persist and how activists can get stuck in despondency traps.
The global economy is compared to English football in this work to illustrate the ways in which policy makers in developing countries strive to catch up on the international stage.
Public financial management strategies fail because they aren’t scaled to local political and administrative norms. This paper examines whether or not Sweden could apply their own PFM moves to support global reforms in Cambodia and Mozambique.
This work focuses on what capabilities have helped European football super clubs emerge. Sports economics, infrastructure capabilities, and engagement mechanics are central themes of this working paper.
Standard aid routinely fails to address complex problems. In this working paper, Afghanistan’s capability trap is discussed.
Attempts at state-building in Afghanistan have not been successful, and institutions continue to be incredibly dependent on external resources. This working paper illustrates the capability trap that the nation finds itself in.
Afghanistan in the early 2000s was a testing ground for new capability building. Frauke de Weijer, the author of this working paper, spent nearly 10 years in the country and now writes about the ill suited frameworks in the state.
