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On the effect of state fragility on corruption
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
The Kodila-Tedika & Bolito-Losembe (2014, ADR) finding on no evidence of causality flowing from State fragility to classical corruption or extreme corruption could have an important influence on academic and policy debates. Using updated data (1996-2010) from 53 African countries, we provide...
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On the Effect of State Fragility on Corruption
Asongu, Simplice - 2015
The Kodila-Tedika & Bolito-Losembe (2014, ADR) finding on no evidence of causality flowing from State fragility to classical corruption or extreme corruption could have an important influence on academic and policy debates. Using updated data (1996-2010) from 53 African countries, we provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023704
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Blended finance in fragile contexts : opportunities and risks
Basile, Irene; Neunuebel, Carolyn - 2019
The development community agrees on the need to address conflict and fragility for global security and sustainable … opportunities and economic, political and environmental security. The amounts of private finance mobilised increase, as a country … security remains unclear, as these two dimensions exert more complex influence on the trade-off between perceived risks and …
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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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The effectiveness of aid under post-conflict conditions : a sector-specific analysis
Donaubauer, Julian; Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016
It is widely believed that foreign aid may help conflict-affected countries to recover after the settlement of conflicts. However, the available empirical evidence supporting this view largely neglects the heterogeneous nature of aid. Drawing on the conflict database of the Uppsala Conflict Data...
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Fragility and MDG progress : how useful is the fragility concept?
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - 2010
While it is widely presumed that development progress in so-called fragile states is lagging behind, only very limited empirical analysis exists that investigates to what extent the levels and trends in the MDGs differ significantly between fragile and other developing countries, and between...
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Fragile States and U.S. Foreign Assistance : Show Me the Money
Brown, Kaysie - 2007
development challenge. It has also recognized that such states are potential threats to international peace and security. But …
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Liberia : Sustaining the Transition to Peace and Recovery
Boya Resta, Odette - 2006
, questions about concrete commitment to aid remain. The signing of a peace agreement in August 2003, the installation of a …
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Hybrid business models for peace and reconciliation
Kolk, Ans; Lenfant, François - In: Business horizons 59 (2016) 5, pp. 503-524
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State fragility and development cooperation : putting the empirics to use in policy and planning
Martin-Shields, Charles; Koester, Diana - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2024
and humanitarian dynamics in myriad ways. The longest-running among these kinds of models is the Fund for Peace’s Fragile … States Index (Fund for Peace, 2023). Other models focus on state fragility as a function of different aspects of “stateness …
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