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To Aid or Not to Aid?: The Case of Rwanda, DFID, and the Good Aid Debate
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Omar Shahabudin McDoom What should donors do when confronted with regimes that violate important normative standards of state behavior and commit human rights abuses, war crimes or other grave ethical transgressions?...

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From Bilateral Trade to Multilateral Pressure: A Scenario of European Union Relations with Sudan

This paper investigates the economic consequences of a scenario in which the European Union (EU) imposes economic sanctions on Sudan...

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Enforcing Peace Agreements in Fragile States through Commitment Technologies

From the book: Fragile States

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Enforcing Peace Agreements through Commitment Technologies

This paper models the instability of peace agreements, motivated by the empirical regularity with which peace agreements tend to break down following civil war...

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Growth, Capital Accumulation, and Economic Reform in South Africa

From the book: Resource Abundance and Economic Development

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