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 …

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 …

the distributional effect of taxes and transfers (through social protection) using Ethiopia as a case study. We find that … currently Ethiopia's flagship social protection programme is more effective than income taxation in achieving poverty reduction … Ethiopia would have the capacity to achieve the desired level of redistribution by applying higher marginal rates on relatively …

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 …

Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme is among the largest social protection programmes in Africa and has been … commitment can be understood in the context of shifts within Ethiopia's political settlement and the government's evolving …

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 …

hospital cluster in Ethiopia. Between baseline and follow-up assessments, staff from a national quality collaborative alliance … provided hospital-based training on labour and delivery services. Local setting: Ethiopia has invested in hospital quality …