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Can cities or towns drive African development? Economy-wide analysis for Ethiopia and Uganda
Dorosh, Paul; Thurlow, James - 2012
greatly reduce national poverty over the short-term. In this regard, agricultural growth is more effective, albeit with slower …-fundamentalist approach to African development, but the short-term imperative of reducing poverty necessitates further agricultural investment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319945
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Health and the urban transition: Effects of household perceptions, illness, and environmental pollution on clean water investment
Spencer, James H. - 2010
Recent efforts to reinvigorate the connections between urban planning and health have usefully brought the field back to one of its original roles. Current research, however, has focused on industrialized cities, overlooking some of the important urbanization processes in poor countries. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280085
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Globalization and exclusionary urban growth in Asian countries
Kundu, Amitabh; Kundu, Debolina - 2010
urbanization, and speculates on its impact on the quality of life and poverty in the context of Asian countries. After experiencing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280104
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Foreign aid and decentralization: Policies for autonomy and programming for responsiveness
Dickovick, J. Tyler - 2013
Donor support for decentralization comes in two main categories: recommendations at the policy level and project activities at the programming level. At the policy level, donors promote decentralization by recommending greater autonomy for subnational actors. That is, they advocate for reforms...
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The changing dynamics of foreign aid and democracy in Mozambique
Manning, Carrie; Malbrough, Monica - 2012
This study explores the effects of foreign aid on democracy in Mozambique during the last decade. Aid for democracy built on historic relationships forged between donors and the government during the wartime humanitarian emergency. Foreign aid played an important role in Mozambique's transition...
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Aid and institution-building in fragile states: The case of Somali-inhabited eastern Horn of Africa
Menkhaus, Ken - 2014
Institution-building in Somalia has met with high levels of failure for two decades. But successes have occurred in other Somali-inhabited regions of the eastern Horn, and have been especially present at the local and municipal level. The most effective aid to institution-building in Somalia has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343198
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The experimented society: Interventions, social science, and the failure of post-conflict reconstruction in Afghanistan
Murtazashvili, Jennifer Brick - 2024
This paper critically examines the shortcomings of post-conflict reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021, arguing that an overemphasis on measurable results and causal inference led to overly narrow, community-driven development interventions that failed to appreciate the complex...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014577229
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Every drop counts: Assessing aid for water and sanitation
Anand, P.B. - 2013
Water and sanitation sectors have been the 'natural' subjects of aid for several decades. However, these sectors also … complexity in assessing impact and effectiveness of aid in water and sanitation sector. Notwithstanding this complexity, the … magnitude of aid to water supply and sanitation activities has increased significantly, it is not easy to connect aid with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319781
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Orphans and stunted growth: Investigating the potential of spatial network effects in service delivery for reducing stunting in orphans
Bridgman, Grace - 2020
indicate that the effects of access to sanitation significantly reduce this penalty. Moreover, sanitation is at least as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424141
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Aid for agriculture and rural development in the global south: A changing landscape with new players and challenges
Chimhowu, Admos - 2013
This paper analyses the way aid for agriculture and rural development in the global south has changed over time. It finds three key shifts. First, a change in funding priority that has seen aid commitments move to the social sectors. Second is a shift in priority within agriculture and rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319922