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Skills Training, Corruption and Organisational Capabilities: An Analysis of Bangladesh’s Garment Industry (2025)
Journal Article
Khan, M., Kabir, S., & van Huellen, S. (online). Skills Training, Corruption and Organisational Capabilities: An Analysis of Bangladesh’s Garment Industry. The Journal of Development Studies, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2025.2521491

Skills training programmes are critical for job creation and structural transformation in developing countries. However, they often achieve poor results because of corruption. By looking at evidence of fraud in a group of training providers in Bangla... Read More about Skills Training, Corruption and Organisational Capabilities: An Analysis of Bangladesh’s Garment Industry.

Who is absent and why? Factors affecting doctor absenteeism in Bangladesh (2024)
Journal Article
Islam, M. R., Angell, B., Naher, N., Islam, B. Z., Khan, M., McKee, M., Hutchinson, E., Balabanova, D., & Ahmed, S. M. (2024). Who is absent and why? Factors affecting doctor absenteeism in Bangladesh. PLOS Global Public Health, 4(4), Article e0003040. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0003040

Absenteeism by doctors in public healthcare facilities in rural Bangladesh is a form of chronic rule-breaking and is recognised as a critical problem by the government. We explored the factors underlying this phenomenon from doctors’ perspectives. We... Read More about Who is absent and why? Factors affecting doctor absenteeism in Bangladesh.

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.

State-led Economic Transformation in Rwanda 2000-2019: An Evaluation of the Role of Policy in Coffee-processing, Tourism, Food Crops, and Manufacturing (2023)
Thesis
Heinen, S. State-led Economic Transformation in Rwanda 2000-2019: An Evaluation of the Role of Policy in Coffee-processing, Tourism, Food Crops, and Manufacturing. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Less than thirty years after civil war and genocide, the government of post-conflict Rwanda has achieved a remarkable level of state-building and economic growth. This thesis uses a political settlements framework to make sense of the country’s recen... Read More about State-led Economic Transformation in Rwanda 2000-2019: An Evaluation of the Role of Policy in Coffee-processing, Tourism, Food Crops, and Manufacturing.

Successes and Failures of Industrial Policies in Nigeria: The Cases of the Cement, Textiles, and Iron and Steel Industries (2023)
Thesis
Salihu, H. Successes and Failures of Industrial Policies in Nigeria: The Cases of the Cement, Textiles, and Iron and Steel Industries. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Under the same clientelist political settlement, industrial policies have been designed and implemented in the cement, textile, and iron and steel industries in Nigeria. However, although these policies were designed and implemented under more or les... Read More about Successes and Failures of Industrial Policies in Nigeria: The Cases of the Cement, Textiles, and Iron and Steel Industries.

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.

De-Risking Private Power in Bangladesh: How Financing Design Can Stop Collusive Contracting (2022)
Journal Article
Khan, M., Watkins, M., & Zahan, I. (2022). De-Risking Private Power in Bangladesh: How Financing Design Can Stop Collusive Contracting. Energy Policy, 168, Article 113146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113146

Collusive contracting with private power plants in Bangladesh has resulted in high power prices that cost the taxpayer around U$1 billion in subsidies. The main driver of collusive contracting is the unwillingness of politically unconnected firms to... Read More about De-Risking Private Power in Bangladesh: How Financing Design Can Stop Collusive Contracting.

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?.

Win-win: designing dual-use in climate projects for effective anti-corruption in Bangladesh (2022)
Journal Article
Khan, M., Watkins, M., Aminuzzaman, S., Khair, S., & Khan, M. Z. H. (2022). Win-win: designing dual-use in climate projects for effective anti-corruption in Bangladesh. Climate and Development, 14(10), 921-934. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2022.2027741

Climate adaptation projects in Bangladesh have been widely affected by high levels of corruption and resource leakage. However, the dual-use characteristics of climate adaptation investments create incentives for influential households to monitor pro... Read More about Win-win: designing dual-use in climate projects for effective anti-corruption in Bangladesh.

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.