Ending Hunger is Possible – Institutional Change Matters

Ending Hidden Hunger: The Montreal Micronutrient Conference

The conference's purpose was to pursue goals of the World's Summit for Children, held one year before. The Summit (ICCIDD Newsletter 6:(4), November 1990) pledged the virtual elimination of IDD by the year 2000. This conference reviewed programs and examples, and discussed ways to accelerate progress towards that goal. ICCIDD presentations included the keynote address by Dr. Ramalingaswami, ICC...

Ending Hidden Hunger: The History of Micronutrient Deficiency Control

Is it Possible to Change Prescribing Habits?

Ending Corruption: the Interplay among Institutional Logics, Resources, and Institutional Entrepreneurs

We draw from theories of institutions and collective identities to present a threefold framework of institutional change—involving institutional logics, resources, and social actors—that furthers our understanding of the mitigation of corruption. Those social actors intent on reforming corruption function as institutional entrepreneurs, and their success depends both on articulating an anticorr...

Context Is Everything : Measuring Institutional Change in Transition Economies

* This paper was prepared while the author was a World Bank's Robert S. McNamara Fellow. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed here are entirely those of the author and should not be attributed in any manner to the World Bank, to its affiliate organizations, or to members of its Board of Directors or the countries they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy...