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Globalization in crisis – confronting a new economic reality

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Report: Towards peace, decent work, and greater equality

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Aid Impact and Effectiveness
  • Aid effectiveness
  • Aid and growth
  • Development aid
Journal Article
Aid Impact and Effectiveness

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness

  • Donors
  • Fragile states
  • Climate change
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What Does the Evidence Tell Us about ‘Thinking and Working Politically’ in Development Assistance?

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness

  • Aid effectiveness
  • Donors
  • Evidence
Working Paper
What does the evidence tell us about ‘thinking and working politically’ in development assistance?

This paper critically reviews evidence on ‘thinking and working politically’ in development. Scholars and practitioners have increasingly recognised that development is fundamentally political, and efforts are underway to develop more politically...

  • Aid effectiveness
  • Donors
  • Evidence
Working Paper
The negotiated politics of social protection in sub-Saharan Africa

Social assistance programmes proliferated and expanded across much of the global South from the mid-1990s. Within Africa there has been enormous variation in this trend: some governments expanded coverage dramatically while others resisted this. The...

  • Social assistance
  • Politics
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
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Donor-supported approaches to improving extractives governance

Part of Book Extractive Industries

  • Oil
  • Gas
  • Natural resources
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Kuznets’ tension in India

Developing countries face a trade-off between the twin objectives of structural transformation and inclusive growth. This is the ‘developer’s dilemma’. This study analyses the dilemma as it manifested itself in the Indian context, and identifies two...

  • Developer's dilemma
  • India
  • Inequality
Book Chapter
Who should get what, how and why?

Part of Book The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa

  • Africa
  • Policy transfer
  • Politics
Working Paper
Who trusts?

In the developing world, clientelism is common. In Africa, public office is often used to redistribute resources to ethnically defined constituencies, and this form of clientelistic exchange is a key determinant of vote choice. Does clientelistic...

  • Trust
  • Identity
  • Politics
Working Paper
The politics of affirmative action: ethnicity, equity, and state-business relations in Malaysia

Malaysia provides for interesting paradoxes. Poverty was reduced by adopting a horizontal perspective to policy planning through affirmative action targeting one ethnic group lagging economically in society. However, outcomes of affirmative action...

  • Politics
  • Enterprises
  • Affirmative action
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The loser’s long curse: electoral consequences of a class conflict

This paper presents evidence of political legacies of exposure to a violent class conflict over 100 years. We revisit the Finnish Civil War of 1918 and first trace out the impact of local conflict exposure on electoral outcomes over a quarter-century...

  • Civil conflict
  • Class
  • Elections
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Formalizing clientelism in Kenya

THIS ARTICLE IS PART OF A FORTHCOMING JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE OF WORLD DEVELOPMENT | Why does clientelism persist? What determines how politicians signal responsiveness to voters and exert effort towards fulfilling campaign promises? This article...

  • Politics
  • Kenya
  • Clientelism
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Clientelism and governance

Part of Journal Special Issue Clientelist Politics and Development

  • vote-buying
  • Clientelism
  • Politics
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Clientelism and governance

Unlike much of the growing literature on political clientelism, this short paper contains mainly the author’s general reflections on the broad issues of governance (or mis-governance including corruption), democracy, and state capacity that...

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  • Clientelism
  • Politics
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Clientelism – another reason to worry about US democracy
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by Rachel M. Gisselquist January 2021

The last several months have given us many reasons to worry about US democracy – not least the riot at the US Capitol and the president’s refusal to...

  • Clientelism
  • United States
  • Corruption
Working Paper
Formalizing clientelism in Kenya

Why does clientelism persist? What determines how politicians signal responsiveness or fulfil their campaign promises? Existing works assume that politicians choose the most successful means of winning votes—either through targeted patronage...

  • Politics
  • Kenya
  • Clientelism
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