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Donors face distinct challenges in operating in fragile states and supporting the building of state capacity. This paper explores one type of assistance - the 'embedding' of highly-skilled staff members within local government agencies - through a unique case study of Finn Church Aid's...
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literature on aid and democracy. It asks: Does aid-especially democracy aid-have positive impact on democracy? How? What factors … most influence its impact? In so doing, it considers studies that explicitly focus on 'democracy aid' as an aggregate … category, its subcomponents (e.g. aid to elections), and 'developmental aid'. Overall, the evidence suggests that i) democracy …
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democratic governance. The analysis distinguishes between developmental aid and democracy aid, and examines democracy aid to …-operation and Development's (OECD) Creditor Reporting System (CRS) data on foreign aid and indices of democracy from the Varieties … of Democracy project, employing a combination of a maximum likelihood estimation and structural equation modelling (ML …
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instability, namely terms-of-trade instability, on the quality of democracy. We take advantage of previous empirical findings …, aggregate aid flows can potentially dampen the effects of terms-of-trade instability on the quality of democracy. An empirical … results. -- democracy ; foreign aid ; terms-of-trade instability …
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Since 2001 international attention has focused on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and specifically on the question of whether external intervention can assist weak or fragile states in successfully making the transition to stable democracies. Despite their differences, Iraq and...
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Can democracy be taught? Are individuals more likely to embrace democratic values, to learn basic knowledge about …
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A plethora of work has been done on the effectiveness of foreign aid. However, virtually none of the previous studies has investigated the impact of aid on social cohesion. Yet, in order to promote the achievement of the targets in SDG 16, donors and global partners of developing countries have...
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The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty by exploring how both aid and trade can influence poverty and income distribution through human rights. The analysis employs data for 125 countries and uses a number of panel data methods. The...
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evolution of the democracy level of countries affected by giant oil discoveries with the weighted democracy level of countries … democracy in the pre-event period are not affected by the peak of oil discoveries. These results support heterogeneity and non …
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Corruption is widely believed to negatively affect economic growth. However, many East and Southeast Asia countries either achieved or currently are achieving impressively rapid economic growth despite widespread corruption - the 'East Asian Paradox'. Is this negative relationship equally likely...
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