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This paper critically reviews evidence on "thinking and working politically" in development. Scholars and practitioners have increasingly recognised that development is fundamentally political, and efforts are underway to develop more politically informed ways of thinking and working. The...
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The Yemen Social Fund for Development (SFD) was established in 1997 with the support of the international community, and in particular the World Bank, to combat national poverty and reinforce the limited existing social safety net. Since its inception, SFD has been widely viewed as successful in...
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New thinking on the nature of fragility and risk shows a shift from a one-dimensional understanding of fragility towards a more holistic approach in which degrees of fragility exist on a spectrum. This approach recognises the need for collaborative, regional and global solutions to tackle the...
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While significant amounts of foreign aid have been allocated to the group of so-called fragile and conflict-affected states in recent years, it is not clear whether that aid is targeted to where it is most needed. This paper extends recent work by Carment and Samy, and focuses on aid targeting...
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-metrical relationships between donors and recipients that succeed when their interests can be can harmo-nised but not when they conflict …. Donors use their support to persuade sovereign governments to adopt pol-icies they support but cannot always negotiate … donors since the war that culminated in the recent Paris Declaration and Sustainable Development Goals calling for poverty …
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International development cooperation has evolved since the 1960s. The effectiveness of aid is still topical, but studies have not paid adequate attention to the relationship between sectoral aid, politics, institutions, and aid effectiveness in fragile states. Using data from 2002 to 2020, this...
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The objective of this paper is to focus on fragility research findings and examine what works or does not work in development aid and development cooperation in fragile and conflictaffected contexts. We draw on our own research findings as well as country-level studies. We examine questions of...
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. Donor dependency entailed some loss of agency for the government as it allowed donors to challenge its capacity but never … concerns, especially security and commerce. Mozambique should expect increasing instrumentalization of aid budgets by donors … developed to deal with donors are not well suited to today's challenges. They focus on less relevant areas of the relationship …
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The study seeks to identify donor-specific factors that cause donors to delay aid disbursement, and to apply a double …
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