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The Promise of Grassroots Approaches to Solving Absenteeism in Primary Health-Care Facilities in Nigeria: Evidence from a Qualitative Study (2023)
Journal Article
Onwujekwe, O., Agwu, P., Roy, P., Hutchinson, E., Orjiakor, C. T., McKee, M., Odii, A., Nwokolo, C., Khan, M., Mayhew, S. H., & Balabanova, D. (2023). The Promise of Grassroots Approaches to Solving Absenteeism in Primary Health-Care Facilities in Nigeria: Evidence from a Qualitative Study. Health Systems & Reform, 9(1), Article 2199515. https://doi.org/10.1080/23288604.2023.2199515

Absenteeism among primary health-care (PHC) workers in Nigeria is widespread and is a major obstacle to achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). There is increasing research on the forms it takes and what drives them, but limited evidence on how to... Read More about The Promise of Grassroots Approaches to Solving Absenteeism in Primary Health-Care Facilities in Nigeria: Evidence from a Qualitative Study.

Challenge of Inclusive Federalism in Nepal: A Political Settlements Analysis of Madhesh Province (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
Khan, M., Roy, P., Prasai, S., Acharya, A., Karna, A., & Neupane, S. Challenge of Inclusive Federalism in Nepal: A Political Settlements Analysis of Madhesh Province. London ; Lalitpur

Nepal’s federal constitution marked the end of a long conflict. Despite its limitations, it is hugely successful in one respect: peace has endured. The political settlements framework looks at how changes in the distribution of power in the years pre... Read More about Challenge of Inclusive Federalism in Nepal: A Political Settlements Analysis of Madhesh Province.

Absenteeism among doctors in the Bangladesh health system: What are the structural drivers? (2022)
Journal Article
Naher, N., Balabanova, D., McKee, M., Khan, M., Roy, P., Ahmed, S. M., & Hutchinson, E. (2022). Absenteeism among doctors in the Bangladesh health system: What are the structural drivers?. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 2, Article 100089. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100089

Despite considerable investment by the Bangladesh government in measures to strengthen accountability and transparency, absenteeism among doctors remains a barrier to the achievement of Universal Health Coverage. Recent innovations in anti-corruption... Read More about Absenteeism among doctors in the Bangladesh health system: What are the structural drivers?.

Digitizing Taxation and Premature Formalization in Developing Countries (2021)
Journal Article
Roy, P., & Khan, M. (2021). Digitizing Taxation and Premature Formalization in Developing Countries. Development and Change, 52(4), 855-877. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12662

The digitization of taxation systems can assist inclusion. However, it can also inadvertently lead to adverse outcomes for the poor in developing countries where many firms in the informal sector have low capabilities. Moreover, larger formal sector... Read More about Digitizing Taxation and Premature Formalization in Developing Countries.

An Adaptive Governance and Health System Response for the Covid-19 Emergency (2020)
Journal Article
Khan, M., Roy, P., Matin, I., Rabbani, M., & Chowdhury, R. (2020). An Adaptive Governance and Health System Response for the Covid-19 Emergency. World Development, 137, 105213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105213

In the absence of an efficacious and affordable vaccine, the current crisis of COVID-19 is likely to be a long drawn one for many developing countries. In Bangladesh, where the entire population is susceptible and strict lockdown has been relaxed (as... Read More about An Adaptive Governance and Health System Response for the Covid-19 Emergency.