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Does project-level aid for water and sanitation improve child health outcomes?: Evidence from household panel data in UgandaEmpirical studies on the effectiveness of aid to the water, sanitation, and hygiene sector (WASH aid) have focused primarily on access to these services as the benchmark for evaluating the effectiveness of aid in this sector...
Aid effectiveness Public health WaterWorking Paper
Residual capacity and the political economy of pandemic response in GhanaOn the whole, poor countries in Africa and elsewhere seem to have weathered the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19) pandemic better than wealthier countries with superior healthcare systems...
COVID-19 State capacity ClientelismResearch Brief
What do we need to know about social mobility in the Global South?The volume, Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Concepts, Methods and Determinants, brings together leading scholars from several disciplines to advance research practice on social mobility...
Social mobility Inequality & Human Development Human capitalWorking Paper
Dynamic impacts of lockdown on domestic violence: Evidence from multiple policy shifts in ChileWe leverage staggered implementation of lockdown across Chile’s 346 municipalities, identifying dynamic impacts on domestic violence...
Domestic violence Social protection COVID-19Blog
Staffan Lindberg’s keynote address is a wake-up call
In introducing Staffan Lindberg’s keynote at the WIDER Development Conference, UNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow and political scientist Rachel Gisselquist says that the COVID-19 pandemic is linked to new restrictions on rights and freedoms at a...
Democracy Democracy and human rights AutocracyBlog
Artificial intelligence vs. COVID-19 in developing countries: Priorities and trade-offs
The rush to harness Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the fight against the pandemic may be an opportunity for developing countries to accelerate the digitalization of their economies...
COVID-19 Artificial intelligence Public healthWorking Paper
Does HIV/AIDS matter for economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa?Estimating the impact of HIV/AIDS epidemic on economic growth is challenging because of endogeneity concerns...
Economic growth Human capital MacroeconomicsWorking Paper
Needs versus Expediency: Poverty Reduction and Social Development in Post-conflict CountriesConflict depletes all forms of human and social capital, as well as supporting institutions. The scale of the human damage can overwhelm public action, as there are many competing priorities and resources are often insufficient...
Economic development Education National securityWorking Paper
Poor Health Reporting: Do Poor South Africans Underestimate Their Health Needs?Researchers often rely on household survey data to investigate health disparities and the incidence and prevalence of illness. These self-reported health measures are often biased due to information asymmetry or differences in reference groups...
Equality and inequality Healthcare Public healthBlog
Why Ending Malnutrition is a Quintessential 21st Century Development Goal
In the run up to the announcement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) in September every development issue is clamouring for attention...
Climate change Environment Equality and inequalityJournal Article
Non-Clinical Interventions for Acute Respiratory Infections and Diarrhoeal Diseases among Young Children in Developing CountriesTo assess the effectiveness of non-clinical interventions against acute respiratory infections and diarrhoeal diseases among young children in developing countries...
Healthcare Public healthWorking Paper
Social Spending and Aggregate Welfare in Developing and Transition EconomiesNotwithstanding the unprecedented attention devoted to reducing poverty and fostering human development via scaling up social sector spending, there is surprisingly little rigorous empirical work on the question of whether social spending is effectiv...
Education Public expenditures Government spending policyResearch Brief
The Microeconomic Impact of Interventions Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and MalariaWhile the majority of interventions against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria had positive short-term effects, these were frequently not translated into long-term sustainable results...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Microeconomics Public healthWorking Paper
Effectiveness of International Aid for Diarrheal Disease Control and Potential for Future ImpactThe reduction in deaths from diarrheal diseases is one of the significant public health successes of the twentieth century...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Public healthWorking Paper
Global Collective Action in Health: The WDR+20 Landscape of Core and Supportive FunctionsThis paper discusses shifts in development assistance for health (DAH) since 1990, analyses the nature of the current distribution of funding, and considers future implications. Based on Jamison et al...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development Health expendituresBlog
From the Editor’s Desk (October 2013)
31 October 2013 Tony Addison October finds Angle in New York, for our event on ‘Fragility and Aid–What Works?’ at the Permanent Mission of Germany to the UN...
Agriculture Budget Children