ReCom – Research and Communication on Foreign Aid
- Project name/title
- ReCom – Research and Communication on Foreign Aid
- Year:
- 2011
- Keywords:
- foreign aid; official development assistance (ODA); development finance; Africa; freedom, democracy and human rights; growth and employment; gender equality; stability and fragility; and environment and climate.
- Contact:
Research and Communication on Foreign Aid website
UNU-WIDER focal points for the ReCom programme are Tony Addison, Chief Economist, Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER and Finn Tarp, Director of UNU-WIDER.
Project Assistant
Janis Vehmaan-Kreula
Communications Assistant
Annett VictoreroSenior Communications Specialist
Carl-Gustav Lindén- Project Meetings
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- 4 April 2013 Presentation: Does aid contribute to economic development? by Finn Tarp, Director of UNU-WIDER
- 4 June 2013 ReCom results meeting: Aid and our changing environment, Stockholm, Sweden
- 22 August 2013 Experimental and non-experimental methods to study government performance: contributions and limits, New York, USA
- 5 March 2013 Presentation: Does Aid Increase Growth? by Finn Tarp, Director of UNU-WIDER. Helsinki, Finland
- 13 March 2013 ReCom Results meeting: Aid and Social Sectors. Stockholm, Sweden
- 9 October 2012 Presentation: 'Hjalp Vi? Og Hvad Nu?', (in Danish language), Copenhagen, Denmark
- 3 November 2012 Presentation: Does Foreign Aid Help, by Finn Tarp. Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2 November 2012 Presentation: Aid, Growth and Development, by Finn Tarp. Copenhagen, Denmark
- 8 October 2012 ReCom Results meeting: Jobs — Aid at Work, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 5 September 2012 Project activity: Urban Governance and Service Delivery in Africa: The Role of National Policies, Institutions, and Politics, Naples, Italy
- Conferences
- Seminars
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- 9 March 2011 The Impact of Aid – What is the impact of aid on economic development, recipient governments and donors themselves? Stockholm, Sweden
- 22 March 2011 Finnish Development Days, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Department of Development Policy, Helsinki, Finland
- 17 February 2011 Seminar: SOAS Seminar on Aid and Development in Asia and Africa: 'The Role of Infrastructure and Capacity Development in East Asia Growth and its Implication for African Development', London, UK
- Presentations
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- 17 June 2011 Aid – Working for Development: Policy Seminar, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 24 November 2010 Presentation: on the occasion of the launch of the new DANIDA Research Programme on Foreign Aid, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1 March 2011 Guest lecture: Aid, Growth and Development, Tampere, Finland
- Publications:
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- Article: Aid and Growth: What Meta-Analysis Reveals
- Article: Aid, Growth, and Development: Have We Come Full Circle?
- Article: The Triple Crisis and the Global Aid Architecture
- DP/2009/05 Aid and Growth: Have We Come Full Circle?
- WP/2010/01 The Triple Crisis and the Global Aid Architecture
- WP/2010/96 Aid, Growth, and Development: Have We Come Full Circle?
- WP/2011/04 Aid Supplies Over Time: Accounting for Heterogeneity, Trends and Dynamics
- WP/2011/22 Aid and Growth: What Meta-Analysis Reveals
- WP/2011/44 Aid Effectiveness: Opening the Black Box
- WP/2011/51 The Long-Run Impact of Foreign Aid in 36 African Countries: Insights from Multivariate Time Series Analysis
- WP/2011/66 Foreign Assistance in a Climate-Constrained World
- WP/2011/67 Rethinking the World of Aid in the Twenty First Century
- WP/2011/68 Improving Donor Support for Urban Poverty Reduction: A focus on South Asia
- WP/2011/72 The Political Economy of Aid Flows to North Africa
- WP/2011/73 Innovative Delivery Mechanisms for Increased Aid Budgets: Lessons from a New Australian Aid Partnership
- WP/2011/81 The Demand Side of Social Protection: Lessons from Cambodia’s Labour Rights Experience
- WP/2011/84 Lessons of Experience in International Democracy Support: Implications for Supporting Democratic Change in North Africa
- WP/2011/95 Aid and the Fiscal and Monetary Responses to Dutch Disease
- WP/2012/01 Aid and Government Fiscal Behaviour: What Does the Evidence Say?
- WP/2012/02 Contested Relationships: Women’s Economic and Social Empowerment, Insights from the Transfer of Material Assets in Bangladesh
- WP/2012/05 How to Spend it: The organization of public spending and aid effectiveness
- WP/2012/06 Transitional Justice and Aid
- WP/2012/07 Impact of Foreign Aid on Economic Growth in Sierra Leone: Empirical Analysis
- WP/2012/104 It’s All About MeE: Using Structured Experiential Learning (‘e’) to Crawl the Design Space
- WP/2012/107 Development Aid and Employment
- WP/2012/108 Economic Governance: Improving the economic and regulatory environment for supporting private sector activity
- WP/2012/15 Foreign Aid in Africa: Tracing Channels of Influence on Democratic Transitions and Consolidation
- WP/2012/16 Foreign Aid and Democratic Consolidation in Zambia
- WP/2012/18 The Changing Dynamics of Foreign Aid and Democracy in Mozambique
- WP/2012/19 Foreign Assistance and the Food Crisis of 2007–08
- WP/2012/20 Foreign Aid and Democratic Development in Africa
- WP/2012/21 Aid, Structural Change and the Private Sector in Africa
- WP/2012/22 Aid, Growth and Private Capital Flows to Ghana
- WP/2012/24 Aid as a Second-Best Solution: Seven Problems of Effectiveness and How to Tackle Them
- WP/2012/25 How Aid Supply Responds to Economic Crises: A Panel VAR Approach
- WP/2012/26 Aid and Dutch Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa
- WP/2012/28 Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Limits of Foreign Aid on Malawi’s Democratic Consolidation
- WP/2012/29 Fiscal Composition and Aid Effectiveness: A Political-Economy Model
- WP/2012/30 Good Governance as a Concept, and Why This Matters for Development Policy
- WP/2012/31 Aid and Growth Accelerations: Vulnerability Matters
- WP/2012/32 International Coordination and the Effectiveness of Aid
- WP/2012/33 Beyond Electoral Democracy: Foreign Aid and the Challenge of Deepening Democracy in Benin
- WP/2012/34 Mapping the Impacts of Food Aid: Current Knowledge and Future Directions
- WP/2012/35 Consequences of Aid Volatility for Macroeconomic Management and Aid Effectiveness
- WP/2012/37 Donor Assistance and Political Reform in Tanzania
- WP/2012/40 Ghana: The Limits of External Democracy Assistance
- WP/2012/42 On the Impact of External Debt and Aid on Public Expenditure Allocation in Sub-Saharan Africa after the Launch of the HIPC Initiative
- WP/2012/47 Aid, Employment and Inclusive Growth in Conflict-Affected Countries: Policy Recommendations for Liberia
- WP/2012/49 Donor Assistance and Urban Service Delivery in Africa
- WP/2012/51 Opposition Politics and Urban Service Delivery in Kampala, Uganda
- WP/2012/54 Does Aid Availability Affect Effectiveness in Reducing Poverty?
- WP/2012/56 Aid and Infrastructure Financing: Emerging challenges with a focus on Africa
- WP/2012/61 Foreign Aid in Dangerous Places: The donors and Mali’s democracy
- WP/2012/63 Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation
- WP/2012/64 Escaping Capability Traps Through Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)
- WP/2012/68 Fungibility and the Choice of Aid Modalities: The Red Herring Revisited
- WP/2012/69 Aid Effectiveness in the Health Sector
- WP/2012/72 Is the Clean Development Mechanism Promoting Sustainable Development?
- WP/2012/73 Is the Clean Development Mechanism Effective for Emission Reductions?
- WP/2012/74 The Decarbonization of China's Agriculture
- WP/2012/75 The Effectiveness of Foreign Aid to Education: What Can Be Learned?
- WP/2012/76 EU Aid: What Works and Why
- WP/2012/77 Aid, Fiscal Policy, Climate Change, and Growth
- WP/2012/86 Aid, Growth, and Jobs
- WP/2012/87 Vertical Decentralization and Urban Service Delivery in South Africa: Does Politics Matter?
- WP/2012/88 Helping Poor Farmers to Help Themselves: Evidence from a Group-Based Aid Project in Mozambique
- WP/2012/90 Civil Service Reform: A review
- WP/2012/91 Gender Mainstreaming in Nordic Development Agencies: Seventeen years after the Beijing Conference
- WP/2012/92 Decentralized Service Delivery in Nairobi and Mombasa: Policies, politics and inter-governmental relations
- WP/2012/93 Aid and Investment in Statistics for Africa
- WP/2012/94 Is Small Beautiful? Small Enterprise, Aid and Employment in Africa
- WP/2012/99 The Role of Training in Fostering Cluster-Based Micro and Small Enterprises Development
- WP/2013/004 Aid as a catalyst for pioneer investment
- WP/2013/009 Evaluating antipoverty transfer programmes in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa: Better policies? Better politics?
- WP/2013/010 Taxation and development: A review of donor support to strengthen tax systems in developing countries
- WP/2013/011 The porous dialectic: Experimental and non-experimental methods in development economics
- WP/2013/013 Policing reforms and economic development in African states: Understanding the linkages: empowering change
- WP/2013/014 Aid for agriculture and rural development: A changing landscape with new players and challenges
- WP/2013/017 Assessing the effectiveness of World Bank investments: The gender dimension
- WP/2013/018 International organizations and the future of education assistance
- WP/2013/019 The European Investment Bank: Lessons for developing countries
- WP/2013/020 Aid and poverty: Why does aid not address poverty (much)?
- WP/2013/021 Making aid work for education in developing countries: An analysis of aid effectiveness for primary education coverage and quality
- WP/2013/022 Africa-Brazil co-operation in social protection: Drivers, lessons and shifts in the engagement of the Brazilian Ministry of Social Development
- WP/2013/023 Measuring government performance in public opinion surveys in Africa: Towards experiments?
- WP/2013/024 Ancillary experiments: Opportunities and challenges
- WP/2013/025 Every drop counts: Assessing aid for water and sanitation
- WP/2013/043 The challenge fund aid modality: Assessing the potential for tackling gender challenges in development
- WP/2013/044 Foreign aid and decentralization: Policies for autonomy and programming for responsiveness
- WP/2013/045 Jobs and welfare in Mozambique
- WP/2013/046 Foreign aid for climate change related capacity building
- WP/2013/047 Financing sustainable agriculture under climate change with a specific focus on foreign aid
- WP/2013/048 Foreign aid, green cities and buildings
- WP/2013/049 Donor coordination for effective government policies? Implementation of the new aid effectiveness agenda in health and education in Zambia
- WP/2013/051 Foreign aid, urbanization and green cities
- Content:
Research and Communication on Foreign Aid website
ReCom—Research and Communication on Foreign Aid.pdf
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