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Aid on demand : African leaders and the geography of China's foreign assistance

Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2015

This article investigates whether China's foreign aid is particularly prone to political capture by political leaders of aid-receiving countries. Specifically, we examine whether more Chinese aid is allocated to the political leaders' birth regions and regions populated by the ethnic group to...

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Is favoritism a threat to Chinese aid effectiveness? : A subnational analysis of Chinese development projects

Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2019

Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...

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This mine is mine! : how minerals fuel conflicts in Africa

Berman, Nicolas; Couttenier, Mathieu; Rohner, Dominic; … - 2015 - First version: July 2014, This version: June 16, 2015

We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at …

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China and the World Bank : how contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states

Gehring, Kai; Kaplan, Lennart; Wong, Melvin H. L. - 2019

conflict nor any type of citizen protest, on average. Both even reduce outright conflict by governments against civilians …

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Fighting lone mothers' poverty through in-work benefits : methodological issues and policy suggestions

Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2013

Lone mothers are overrepresented among poor people in many European countries. In 1998, in Norway, a welfare reform increased the amount of benefits and introduced working requirements. Using a quasi-experimental model, Mogstad and Pronzato (2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone...

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Medication against conflict

Berlanda, Andrea; Cervellati, Matteo; Esposito, Elena; … - 2022

The consequences of successful public health interventions for social violence and conﬂict are largely unknown. This …

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No household left behind : Afghanistan targeting the ultra poor impact evaluation

Bedoya, Guadalupe; Coville, Aidan; Haushofer, Johannes; … - 2019

increase in many fragile and conflict-affected areas where half of the extreme poor are expected to reside by 2030. These areas …-push" interventions can dramatically reduce poverty in fragile and conflict-affected regions …

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Evolution of poor food access over the course of the conflict in the Republic of Yemen

Tandon, Sharad; Vishwanath, Tara - 2019

The Republic of Yemen has undergone a profound transformation following the escalation of conflict in March 2015. There … poor welfare outcomes contrasts with evidence from other conflict settings, and further contrasts with the rationale …

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Conflict and poverty : Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020 background paper

Mueller, Hannes; Techasunthornwat, Chanon - 2020

This paper analyzes the relationship between poverty and conflict in the macro and regional data, including a detailed … that conflict has on health and expectations. Based on this evidence, it develops a statistical framework to track the … cumulative long-term impact that armed conflict has on poverty, which the paper calls conflict debt. The data confirm that …

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Polygyny, inequality, and social unrest

Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura - 2020

This paper proposes three theoretical mechanisms through which polygyny may be related to social unrest. The mechanisms are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic,...

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