) authoritarian societies in order to strengthen their democracy. Special attention is paid to gender justice. Illustrations are drawn …

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 …

all donors promised to support democracy in MENA countries, none had a clear strategy for doing so via their development …

Does democracy promote economic growth? There is still an ongoing debate over the economic implications of democracy … 43 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period of 1982-2012, we find strong evidence that democracy is positively …

development, defined as enhanced well-being and human flourishing, and democracy, defined as accountability to the deliberatively …

dynamic economy-wide models for Ethiopia and Uganda that capture both traditional aspects of the debate (growth linkages and …

Ethiopia has experienced rapid economic growth since 2005. Real gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an average rate of … structural transformation that Ethiopia has shown in the last decade, including a continuous decline in the role of agriculture …