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Foreign aid and the failure of state building in Haiti under the Duvaliers, Aristide, Préval, and Martelly

Buss, Terry F. - 2013

Haiti, and who are totally self-interested - Haiti's fatal flaw. Donors can go far to improve aid effectiveness, but Haiti …

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South Sudan : the road from the Paris Declaration to the reality of Juba, 2005 - 11

Larson, Greg - 2013

During Sudan's "interim period" from the end of civil war in January 2005 until South Sudan's independence in July 2011, foreign development agencies provided extensive support and billions of dollars in aid - for which institutional development and capacity building of the nascent Government of...

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What does the evidence tell us about "thinking and working politically" in development assistance?

Dasandi, Niheer; Laws, Edward; Marquette, Heather; … - 2019

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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Delivering good aid in hard places : the Yemen Social Fund for Development approach

Al-Iryani, Lamis; De Janvry, Alain; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - 2013

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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Good development support in fragile, at-risk and crisis affected contexts

OECD - 2016

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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Foreign aid in areas of limited statehood

Dreher, Axel; Lang, Valentin; Ziaja, Sebastian - 2017

We review the aid effectiveness literature to assess whether foreign aid given to areas of limited statehood can be expected to promote economic and social outcomes in the recipient country. We distinguish different types of aid, motives for granting it, recipient country policies and...

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Aid targeting to fragile and conflict-affected states and implications for aid effectiveness

Carment, David; Samy, Yiagdeesen - 2019

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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Explaining aid (in)effectiveness : the political economy of aid relationships

Brett, Edwin A. - 2016

-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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Politics, policies, and the effectiveness of foreign aid in fragile states

Ocran, Matthew Kofi - 2023

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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Aid effectiveness in fragile and conflict-affected contexts : lessons from more than two decades of research

Carment, David; Samy, Yiagadeesen - 2023

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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