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...
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...
15 November 2013
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16 November 2013
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6 B,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
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...
12 December 2013
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13 December 2013
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6 B,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
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...
23 October 2013
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS),
Charlottehaven, 10 Hjørringgade, 2100,
Copenhagen,
Denmark
Past event