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Humanitarian Relief and Civil Conflict
Blouin, Max; Pallage, Stéphane - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2007
We examine the effects of famine relief efforts (food aid) in regions undergoing civil war. In our model, warlords seize a fraction of all aid entering the region. How much they loot affects their choice of army size; therefore the manner in which aid is delivered influences warfare. We identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015275
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Counting Chickens When They Hatch: The Short-term Effect of Aid on Growth
Clemens, Michael; Radelet, Steven; Bhavnani, Rikhil - 2004
Past research on aid and growth is flawed because it typically examines the impact of aggregate aid on growth over a short period, usually four years, while significant portions of aid are unlikely to affect growth in such a brief time. We divide aid into three categories: (1) emergency and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162676
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Media and Humanitarian Aid: Empirical Evidence from Belgium
Vandemoortele, Thijs; Francken, Nathalie; Swinnen, … - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2007
This paper investigates the impact of the media on the allocation of humanitarian aid. We analyze the emergency assistance provided by four Belgian aid organizations to disasters that occurred from 2002 until 2004 and the media coverage of these disasters by two Belgian newspapers. We find a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005449595
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Knowledge Management in Non-Governmental Organisations: A Partnership for the Future
Vasconcelos, José; Seixas, Paulo Castro; Lemos, Paulo Gens - EconWPA - 2005
This paper explores Knowledge Management (KM) practices for use with portal technologies in Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). The aim is to help NGOs become true Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). In order to deal with more donors (at the top) and more beneficiaries (at the bottom), NGOs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118771
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Closing Development Gaps: Challenges and Policy
H. Brooks, Douglas; Hasan, Rana; Lee, Jong-Wha; H. Son, Hyun - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2010
There are significant income and nonincome development gaps around the world. Closing these gaps will require not only increasing and sustaining economic growth in low-income regions, but also policies that close nonincome development gaps directly. Governments need to support private investment...
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"Closing Development Gaps: Challenges and Policy Options"
H. Brooks, Douglas; Hasan, Rana; Lee, Jong-Wha; H. Son, Hyun - In: Asian Development Review 27-2 (2010) 2, pp. 1-28
There are significant income and nonincome development gaps around the world. Closing these gaps will require not only increasing and sustaining economic growth in low-income regions, but also policies that close nonincome development gaps directly. Governments need to support private investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009245429
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Instruments, randomization, and learning about development
Deaton, Angus - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2010
There is currently much debate about the effectiveness of foreign aid and about what kind of projects can engender economic development. There is skepticism about the ability of econometric analysis to resolve these issues, or of development agencies to learn from their own experience. In...
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The measurement of capabilities
Anand, Paul; Santos, Cristina; Smith, Ron - Department of Economics, Open University - 2007
of respondents with low capabilities across the board, build models of experienced violence and subjective wellbeing as a … function of experienced and anticipated violence, and explore the relationship between capability indicators and subjective … health and low income; evidence that fear of future violence can be a more significant determinant of subjective wellbeing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005198476
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Development, Aid and Conflict. Reflexion form the Case of Rwanda.
Uvin, P. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1996
Rwanda's genocide was the extreme outcome of the failure of development model that was based on ethnic, regional and social exclusion; that increased deprivation,humiliation and vulnerability of the poor, that allowd state-instigated recism and discrimination to continue unabated, tha was...
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Structural Stability: On the Prerequisites of Nonviolent Conflict Management
Mehler, Andreas; Engel, Ulf; Giesbert, Lena; Kuhlmann, Jenny - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2008
-societal conflict without resorting to violence. This study investigates the preconditions of structural stability and tests their … appears between “democracy” and “rule of law,” respectively, on the one hand and the dependent variable “violence/ human …
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