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 …

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 …

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

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