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Development aid in fragile states: Investigating the effectiveness of COVID-19 aid in the Democratic Republic of the CongoDrawing from a growing body of literature on development aid in fragile contexts, this paper investigates the effectiveness of COVID-19 aid in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)...
COVID-19 OECD Development aidSeminar
Marijke Verpoorten on aggrieved artisanal miners in Eastern CongoMarijke Verpoorten will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 11 March Abstract - Would you fight? We asked aggrieved artisanal miners in Eastern Congo To meet the rising demand for minerals, mining companies have ventured into conflict-affected...
Journal Article
Is the Education of Local Children Influenced by Living near a Refugee Camp?: Evidence from Host Communities in RwandaPart of Journal Special Issue Migration Governance and Policy in the Global South
Refugees Impact of refugees Host communitiesWorking Paper
Is the education of local children influenced by living nearby a refugee camp?: Evidence from host communities in RwandaThis paper studies to what extent and in what ways access to educational services and schooling outcomes of local children are influenced by the presence of a refugee camp in or around their community...
Refugees Impact of refugees Host communitiesWorking Paper
Patterns and trends in horizontal inequality in the Democratic Republic of the CongoWe analyse horizontal inequality in wealth and in years of education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo over the period 2001–13...
Democratic Republic of the Congo Education EthnicityWorking Paper
Unintended consequences of economic sanctions for human rights: Conflict minerals and infant mortality in the Democratic Republic of the CongoAre victims of human rights abuses better off with or without economic sanctions targeted at their perpetrators? We study this question in the context of a US human rights policy, Section 1502 of the 2010 Dodd–Frank Act...
Economic sanctions Infant mortality Civil conflict