It is widely believed that foreign aid may help conflict-affected countries to recover after the settlement of …. Drawing on the conflict database of the Uppsala Conflict Data Program, we address the hypothesis that the effectiveness of … post-conflict aid differs between specific sectors. Our focus is on social and economic infrastructure which is most likely …

Interventions led by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are often more effective than comparable efforts by other … experiment in India with a triple-differences estimation strategy, we show that a local development NGO’s prior engagement with …Interventionen, die von Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NGOs) durchgeführt werden, sind oft effektiver als vergleichbare …

high in Afghanistan, and especially so in regions that suffered less from conflict. This paper aims to explain this puzzle … by combining a model of conflict intensity at the province level in 2007−14 with a model of consumption at the household … level in 2011. The estimates show that large troop deployments reduced conflict intensity but also boosted local consumption …