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Aid effectiveness in fragile and conflict-affected contexts: Lessons from more than two decades of researchThe objective of this paper is to focus on fragility research findings and examine what works or does not work in development aid and development cooperation in fragile and conflict-affected contexts...
Fragile states Fragility COVID-19Project
Institutional legacies of violent conflict
Theme: Transforming states
Violent conflict Political violence Wartime governanceWorking Paper
Conflict and development: Recent research advances and future agendasWe survey selected parts of the growing literature on the microeconomics of violent conflict, identifying where academic research has started to establish stylized facts and where methodological and knowledge gaps remain...
Conflict Violence WarProject meeting
Good aid in hard places: Learning from what has worked in fragile contextsGovernance & Fragility Governance has become a major concern for both donors and aid recipient countries since the late 1980s. Very poor quality governance is also one of the defining characteristics of state fragility, and social unrest and...
Project meeting
Aid and institution-building in fragile states: Lessons from comparative casesGovernance & Fragility Governance has become a major concern for both donors and aid recipient countries since the late 1980s. Very poor quality governance is also one of the defining characteristics of state fragility, and social unrest and...
Results meeting
Challenges in Fragility and GovernanceSince the mid-1990s foreign aid has become increasingly concerned with fragility and governance. Given the acknowledgement of the role of the state in providing the conditions for peace, progress and prosperity, foreign aid has concentrated much...
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Fragility and Aid-What Works? New York, NY, USAThe UNU and UNU-WIDER event on ‘Fragility and Aid - What Works?’ on 25 October 2013, at the Permanent Mission of Germany to the UN, draws on research from UNU-WIDER’s diverse global network with the aim of providing an opportunity for discussion of...
Fragility Development aid
Project
Fragility and developmentTheme: 2006-07
In recent years there is a growing concern within the international donor community regarding the plight of a special group of countries labeled as 'Fragile States'. These states, which according to current donor lists currently numbers more...
Development and Finance Fragility Fragile states