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Aid Targeting to Fragile and Conflict-Affected States and Implications for Aid EffectivenessPart of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness
Aid effectiveness Foreign aid Fragile statesJournal Article
Aid Impact and Effectiveness: Introduction and OverviewPart of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness
Donors Fragile states Climate change
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Aid targeting to fragile and conflict-affected states and implications for aid effectivenessWhile significant amounts of foreign aid have been allocated to the group of so-called fragile and conflict-affected states in recent years, it is not clear whether that aid is targeted to where it is most needed...
Aid effectiveness Foreign aid Fragile statesWorking Paper
Exiting the fragility trap: Rethinking our approach to the world’s most fragile statesThose fragile states whose stagnation is so tenacious despite generous aid programs, and substantial and costly interventions, are stuck in a ‘fragility trap.’ Caught in a low-level equilibrium, trapped states appear to be in a perpetual ...
Fragile states Mali BangladeshWorking Paper
Backsliding and reversal: The J-Curve revisitedIan Bremmer published a treatise on the stability of states built on the notion that states fall along a curve resembling a slanted “J” when plotting their stability against openness...
Democracy Backsliding Fragile statesBook Chapter
The World Bank’s Health Projects in Timor-Leste: The Political Economy of Effective AidFrom the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aidBook Chapter
Education from the Bottom Up: UNICEF’s Education Programme in SomaliaFrom the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aidBook Chapter
Impact Assessment of the Facilitadores Judiciales Programme in NicaraguaFrom the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aidBook Chapter
Liberia’s Gender-Sensitive Police Reform: Improving Representation and Responsiveness in a Post-Conflict SettingFrom the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aidBook Chapter
‘Embedded’ Assistance: Finn Church Aid’s Secondment in SomaliaFrom the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aidBook Chapter
The Yemen Social Fund for Development: An Effective Community-Based Approach amid Political InstabilityFrom the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aidBook Chapter
The National Solidarity Programme: Assessing the Effects of Community-Driven Development in AfghanistanFrom the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aidBook Chapter
Good Aid in Hard Places: Learning from ‘Successful’ Interventions in Fragile SituationsFrom the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aidBook
Development Assistance for PeacebuildingThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at www.tandfebooks.com and offered as a free PDF download from Taylor & Francis Group and selected open access locations...
Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aidBlog
How did South Sudan get stuck in a fragility trap?
In my last blog I wrote about the common factors at play in political and economic transitions. Using the case of South Sudan, I demonstrated how these factors laid the groundwork for a fragility trap. In this post, I explain what this means...
Conflict Fragile states