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What methods may be used in impact evaluations of humanitarian assistance?

Puri, Jyotsna; Aladysheva, Anastasia; Iversen, Vegard; … - 2015

the extent to which scientific impact evaluation methods can provide evidence to improve the effectiveness and efficiency … drawing on real-life examples from the small but growing academic literature, we demonstrate how impact evaluation methods can … limited resources is a key challenge for humanitarian assistance and impact evaluation is one way of achieving this. …

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Decentralized Provision of Disaster Aid : Aid Fragmentation and the Poverty Implications

Nose, Manabu - 2020

Despite large-scale humanitarian aid, the poverty headcount ratio continued to rise after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Indonesia. This paper evaluates how a decentralized provision of aid affected poverty and inequality dynamics over seven years after the tsunami. Donors distributed fishing...

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The effects of foreign aid on refugee flows

Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Langlotz, Sarah - 2018

This article analyzes whether foreign aid affects the net flows of refugees from recipient countries. Combining refugee data on 141 origin countries over the 1976-2013 period with bilateral Official Development Assistance data, we estimate the causal effects of a country’s aid receipts on both...

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Humanitarian economics

Carbonnier, Gilles - 2018

This paper introduces the origins and scope of humanitarian economics, a vibrant field of study and practice that deals with the economics and political economy of war, disaster, and humanitarian action. To illustrate the field's scientific and policy relevance, the paper draws on various...

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Can digital aid deliver during humanitarian crises?

Callen, Michael; Fajardo-Steinhäuser, Miguel; Findley, … - 2024

Can digital payments systems help reduce extreme hunger? Humanitarian needs are at their highest since 1945, aid budgets are falling behind, and hunger is concentrating in fragile states where repression and aid diversion present major obstacles. In such contexts, partnering with governments is...

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Determination Crisis : Media Effect Applies to Which Type of Aid? Development Aid, Humanitarian Assistance, or Food Aid

Nawaz, Shah - 2021

This paper adds to the growing body of knowledge in media and foreign aid. We aim to determine whether the impact of media-led US aid allocation applies universally to any foreign aid or specific to certain aid types. This paper's contribution is that we created three new media variables and use...

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Does Private Aid Follow the Flag? An Empirical Analysis of Humanitarian Assistance

Fuchs, Andreas; Öhler, Hannes - 2021

Little is known about foreign aid provided by private donors. This paper contributes to closing this research gap by comparing the allocation of private humanitarian aid to that of official humanitarian aid awarded to 140 recipient countries over the 2000-2016 period. We construct a new database...

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