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Bypassing Government

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness

  • Aid effectiveness
  • Institutions
  • Aid policy
Working Paper
Institutional bypass and aid effectiveness in Africa

Many practical and action-oriented international roadmaps to improve the quality of aid and its delivery and impact on development—including the Paris Declaration, Accra Agenda for Action, and Busan Partnership—emphasize a more active involvement of...

  • Aid effectiveness
  • Institutions
  • Aid policy
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Taking steps to overcome inequality in South Africa
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by Carlos Gradín June 2017

Engagement is needed at all levels to address ongoing inequality faced in South Africa. This was the primary aim of a recent policy seminar in...

  • Inequality
  • Development policy
  • Structural transformation
Working Paper
Building resilience knowledge for sustainable development

This paper explores how the concept of resilience has been used in development studies. Set amidst the rise of resilience in sustainable development, it offers insights for scholars and policy-makers, alike. Sampling 419 resilience-oriented journal...

  • Resilience
  • Sustainable development
  • Development policy
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the economy in Southern Africa

The COVID-19 pandemic has had severe economic consequences in Southern Africa, resulting in an unprecedented decline in production and employment. Similar policy responses have emerged across the region, centred on temporary and inadequate relief for...

  • Southern Africa
  • COVID-19
  • Economic policy
Working Paper
Ethnicity is not public service destiny

Millions of South Africans in thousands of demonstrations have protested the unequal allocation of public services. Despite the African National Congress’s promise to reduce the disparities generated by apartheid, the level of public services remains...

  • Public service delivery
  • Ethnicity
  • Africa
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The root causes of large scale forced migration

Director Finn Tarp made a contribution on international migration in a policy seminar hosted by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.

24 August 2016
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Laivastokatu 22, Helsinki, Finland
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Development policy and practice: competing paradigms and approaches

Theme: Transformation

This project uses UNU-WIDER’s high level of convening power – its ability to mobilize senior figures in the development policy debate from different paradigms – and its ability to stand aside from the fashions and pressures of the academy, to bring...

  • Development
  • Aid
  • Development policy
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Climate resilient development needs effective co-operation
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by Albert Sanghoon Park July 2023

The rise of resilience policy in sustainable development Climate resilience is an increasingly popular response to development in a time of polycrisis...

  • Climate change
  • Climate policy
  • Resilience
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Why the Aid Effectiveness Principles are important for development
by Rachel M. Gisselquist, Patricia Justino, Andrea Vaccaro July 2023

Demonstrating empirically the Aid Effectiveness Principles' global impact on development is a challenge. But according to Rachel M. Gisselquist...

  • Aid effectiveness
  • Development policy
  • Humanitarian assistance
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