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Foreign aid in dangerous places: The donors and Mali's democracy

van de Walle, Nicolas - 2012

Mali long seemed a model, low-income democracy. Yet, in a few short weeks in early 2012, more than half of the …

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Assessing the effectiveness of World Bank investments: The gender dimension

Lauterbach, Claire; Zuckerman, Elaine - 2013

Today it is widely acknowledged that increasing the gender sensitivity of development aid increases its effectiveness. This report evaluates the extent to which the World Bank integrates gender concerns into its policies and investments, pointing out structural, financial and policy gaps that...

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Putting Paris into practice: Foreign aid, national ownership, and donor alignment in Mali and Ghana

Brown, Stephen - 2016

, namely ownership and alignment, to the cases of Mali and Ghana. It argues that Western donors and recipient governments have …, the impact on Mali's and Ghana's relationships with their traditional donors has been minimal and short-lasting. To the … extent that donors and recipients have not significantly changed their practices in either Mali (a poor, fragile, aid …

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Exiting the fragility trap: Rethinking our approach to the world's most fragile states

Carment, David; Samy, Yiagadeesen - 2017

Those fragile states whose stagnation is so tenacious despite generous aid programs, and substantial and costly interventions, are stuck in a 'fragility trap.' Caught in a low-level equilibrium, trapped states appear to be in a perpetual political and economic limbo that can last for years and...

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Evidence on aid (in)effectiveness in highly fragile states: A synthesis of three systematic reviews of aid to Afghanistan, Mali, and South Sudan, 2008-21

Zürcher, Christoph - 2022

This working paper provides a summary of three systematic reviews on the effectiveness of aid in Afghanistan, Mali, and …

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The effects of armed conflicts on local economic dynamics in the Mopti and Ségou regions of Mali

Tangara, Mahamadou Bassirou - 2024

economies in Ségou and Mopti, Mali, since the conflict outbreak in 2012. Employing a case study method, the research utilizes …

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State-building through neotrusteeship: Kosovo and East Timor in comparative perspective

Howard, Lise Morjé - 2013

Why do some states, with foreign assistance, transition from 'fragile' to 'robust?' Scholars in state-building have argued that neotrusteeship is an effective strategy by which external organizations might build post-conflict states. This working paper tests this hypothesis, and two related...

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Trust the hand that protects you: Does UN peacekeeping harm post-conflict governments' legitimacy?

Di Salvatore, Jessica - 2022

Rebuilding state legitimacy is a thorny challenge in the aftermath of civil wars. The international community has stepped in to support post-conflict states in rebuilding state capacity, sometimes replacing governments in providing public goods. Most notably, research shows that UN peacekeepers...

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Inequality of opportunities among ethnic groups in the Philippines

Reyes, Celia M.; Mina, Christian D.; Asis, Ronina D. - 2017

This paper contributes to the scant body of literature on inequalities among and within ethnic groups in the Philippines by examining both the vertical and horizontal measures in terms of opportunities in accessing basic services such as education, electricity, safe water, and sanitation. The...

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The gendered nature of asset accumulation in urban contexts: Longitudinal results from Guayaquil, Ecuador

Moser, Caroline; Felton, Andrew - 2010

This paper examines the gendered nature of asset accumulation between 1978 and 2004 in Indio Guayas, a low-income community on the periphery of the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador. In so doing, it emphasizes both the importance of combining quantitative and qualitative intra-household data, as well...

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