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Request for research proposals: Analysis on firms and taxation using micro data from Uganda

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Annual Report 2021

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A world of protest

That we are living in an era of popular protest is undeniable. A quick survey of headlines from around the world — or better yet, your social media feed — reveals countless uprisings unfolding in real time...

Social conflict Good governance Social movement
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The Nordic Model — lessons for Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, like the Nordic countries, is a social democratic nation with a strong welfare state...

Social protection Economic growth Labour market
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The World Bank’s Health Projects in Timor-Leste: The Political Economy of Effective Aid

From the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aid
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Education from the Bottom Up: UNICEF’s Education Programme in Somalia

From the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aid
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Liberia’s Gender-Sensitive Police Reform: Improving Representation and Responsiveness in a Post-Conflict Setting

From the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aid
Book Chapter
‘Embedded’ Assistance: Finn Church Aid’s Secondment in Somalia

From the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aid
Book Chapter
The Yemen Social Fund for Development: An Effective Community-Based Approach amid Political Instability

From the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aid
Book Chapter
The National Solidarity Programme: Assessing the Effects of Community-Driven Development in Afghanistan

From the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aid
Book Chapter
Good Aid in Hard Places: Learning from ‘Successful’ Interventions in Fragile Situations

From the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aid
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Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

This 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 aid
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WDR 2017 does not disappoint: Four implications for work in development

As a political scientist specializing in the comparative politics of development, including particular attention to issues of governance and democracy, I have followed this year’s World Development Report with special interest...

World Development Report Good governance Group-based inequality
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Photo: UN Photo/Tim McKulka Foreign aid and democracy in Africa

Theme: 2010-11

Foreign aid Development Economics Good governance
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