Working Paper
Conflict and development
We 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. We focus our review on the...
Presentation
UNU-WIDER at the Fragile Lives 2024 conference
Households in Conflict Network celebrates its 20th anniversary during the conference Fragile Lives 2024 on 1–2 October in Berlin. UNU-WIDER Deputy Director Patricia Justino, one of the founders and directors of the network, hosts a keynote panel at...
Tue, 1 October 2024 09:00
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Wed, 2 October 2024 17:00
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,
Unter den Linden 6,
Berlin,
Germany
Open for registration
Working Paper
Aid effectiveness in fragile and conflict-affected contexts
The 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. We draw on our own research findings as well as...
Working Paper
Aid and fragile states
Aid is still an important feature of the development landscape. Fragile states, in particular, have the greatest development needs but due to their poor governance they are the least likely countries to use aid effectively to meet their development...
Project meeting
Aid and institution-building in fragile states: Lessons from comparative cases
Governance & 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 violence...
Fri, 15 November 2013
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Sat, 16 November 2013
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6 B,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
News
Fragility and Aid-What Works? New York, NY, USA
The 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 the issue of fragility and how the core challenges it poses can be addressed by the international development community in the post-2015 world.
Project meeting
Good aid in hard places: Learning from what has worked in fragile contexts
Governance & 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 violence...
Thu, 12 December 2013
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Fri, 13 December 2013
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6 B,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Project
Fragility and development
Theme: 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 than 40...
Results meeting
Challenges in Fragility and Governance
Since 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...
Wed, 23 October 2013
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS),
Charlottehaven, 10 Hjørringgade, 2100,
Copenhagen,
Denmark
Past event
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