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Democratic Republic of the Congo
Working Paper
Development aid in fragile states: Investigating the effectiveness of COVID-19 aid in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Drawing 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 aid
Seminar
Marijke Verpoorten on aggrieved artisanal miners in Eastern Congo

Marijke 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...

11 March 2020
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Journal Article
Is the Education of Local Children Influenced by Living near a Refugee Camp?: Evidence from Host Communities in Rwanda

Part of Journal Special Issue Migration Governance and Policy in the Global South

Refugees Impact of refugees Host communities
Working Paper
Is the education of local children influenced by living nearby a refugee camp?: Evidence from host communities in Rwanda

This 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 communities
Working Paper
Patterns and trends in horizontal inequality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

We 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 Ethnicity
Working Paper
Unintended consequences of economic sanctions for human rights: Conflict minerals and infant mortality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Are 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
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