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 …

information from five Varieties of Democracy indices. K-means country clusters are similar but not entirely identical to both k …-medians clusters and arbitrary groups formed using only one measure, namely the liberal democracy index. Simple correlations with … high levels of democracy are characterized by lower relative inequality. They also have the lowest ratio of the income …

We use Arndt and Simler's utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in …

in the pre-and post-reform Ethiopia. We start by presenting evidence that regional inequality in educational attainment …. Given the regional concentration of ethnic and language groups in Ethiopia, further reducing the unequal distribution of …

Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in 2000, 2005, and 2011. Several data … especially problematic for consistency in the presence of annual inflation of over 30 per cent. In addition, the Ethiopia case …

and a hypothetical agricultural shock, in a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ethiopia. The results suggest that while …