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Too many cooks in the kitchen? : the division of financing in World Bank projects and project performance
Winters, Matthew S. - 2019
The total funding envelope for World Bank projects is often divided among various state and non-state actors, each of which can have competing ideas about or interests in the project. How does the division of financing relate to overall project effectiveness? I argue that too many funding...
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Exiting the fragility trap : rethinking our approach to the world's most fragile states
Carment, David; Samy, Yiagadeesen - 2017
Those fragile states whose stagnation is so tenacious despite generous aid programs, and substantial and costly interventions, are stuck in a 'fragility trap.' Caught in a low-level equilibrium, trapped states appear to be in a perpetual political and economic limbo that can last for years and...
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Foreign aid, resource rents and institution-building in Mozambique and Angola
Pérez Niño, Helena; Le Billon, Philippe - 2013
Sharing similar colonial and post-independence civil war experiences, Mozambique and Angola's development paths are … often contrasted, with foreign aid-dependent Mozambique hailed a success compared to oil rentier Angola. This paper … questions the so-called Mozambican miracle and contrasts it with Angola's trajectory over the past two decades. Paying attention …
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The World Bank's health projects in Timor-Leste : the political economy of effective aid
Rosser, Andrew; Bremner, Sharna - 2013
The World Bank's health sector projects in Timor-Leste - the Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project and the Second Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project - have been among the few successful operations it has funded in that country. This paper examines the factors...
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The impact of impact evaluation : are impact evaluation and impact evaluation synthesis contributing to evidence generation and use in low- and middle-income countries?
Manning, Richard; Goldman, Ian; Hernández Licona, Gonzalo - 2020
In 2006 the Center for Global Development's report 'When Will We Ever Learn? Improving lives through impact evaluation' bemoaned the lack of rigorous impact evaluations. The authors of the present paper researched international organizations and countries including Mexico, Colombia, South...
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Aid and environment in Mozambique
Tomo, Alda; Givá, Nícia - 2014
Mozambique benefits from environmental aid-related funds, but it is still unclear whether donor commitments render directly into projects that are copiously implemented for the purposes stated and what aid flows have actually been doing and are doing in the area of aid and environment in...
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More information, better knowledge? : the effects of information campaigns on aid beneficiaries' knowledge of aid projects
Juan, Alexander de; Hofman, Paul; Koos, Carlo - 2023
Aid beneficiaries know very little about development interventions in their own communities. This lack of transparency and information is likely to reduce beneficiaries' ability and willingness to become active in local development. It may also dampen intended aid effects on beneficiaries'...
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The changing dynamics of foreign aid and democracy in Mozambique
Manning, Carrie; Malbrough, Monica - 2012
This study explores the effects of foreign aid on democracy in Mozambique during the last decade. Aid for democracy built on historic relationships forged between donors and the government during the wartime humanitarian emergency. Foreign aid played an important role in Mozambique's transition...
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The saga and limits of public financial management : the Mozambican case
Cruz, António; Ferreira, Ines A.; Flentø, Johnny; … - 2021
At independence in 1975, the Frelimo government took over public administration from the colonial system and started to transform it. The public financial management (PFM) system was adapted to the central planning and management of the economy in line with nationalist and Marxist-Leninist...
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Lessons for Japanese foreign aid from research on aid's impact
Addison, Tony; Tarp, Finn - 2015
Japan has an impressive history when it comes to aid, industrial policy, and infrastructure development, both as a country that saw meteoric development of its own, and as a country that has been one of the world's largest donors for decades. Looking towards an uncertain future in which...
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