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Knack, Stephen F. - In: Journal of development economics 101 (2013), pp. 316-329

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Can Results-Based Payments Reduce Corruption?-Working Paper 345

Kenny, Charles; Savedoff, William - 2013

A common objection to results-based programs is that they are somehow more vulnerable to corruption. This paper … explains why results-based approaches to foreign aid may be less vulnerable to corruption than the traditional approaches which … monitor and track the purchase and delivery of inputs and activities. The paper begins by classifying different corruption …

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Aid and donor trust in recipient country systems

Knack, Stephen - In: Journal of Development Economics 101 (2013) C, pp. 316-329

by cross-country corruption indicators; and (3) donors' risk tolerance, as proxied by public support for aid provision in …

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Aid effectiveness : human rights as a conditionality measure

Douch, Mustapha; Edwards, Huw; Landman, Todd; Mallick, … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 158 (2022), pp. 1-22

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The National Solidarity Programme: Assessing the effects of community-driven development in Afghanistan

Beath, Andrew; Christia, Fotini; Enikolopov, Ruben - 2013

This paper describes the results of an impact evaluation of the National Solidarity Programme, a community-driven development programme in Afghanistan that created democratic village councils and funded small-scale development projects. Using a randomized controlled trial across 500 villages, we...

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The experimented society: Interventions, social science, and the failure of post-conflict reconstruction in Afghanistan

Murtazashvili, Jennifer Brick - 2024

This paper critically examines the shortcomings of post-conflict reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021, arguing that an overemphasis on measurable results and causal inference led to overly narrow, community-driven development interventions that failed to appreciate the complex...

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Can Competition Reduce Conflict?

Garg, Teevrat; Gennaioli, Caterina; Lovo, Stefania; … - 2023

We examine the effect of inter-group fiscal competition on within-group violent conflict. Using a triple difference design, we exploit exogenous variation in the degree to which villages in sub-districts compete for public funds. We find that higher competition between villages reduces conflict...

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Socio-economic impacts of JEEViKA : a large-scale self-help group project in Bihar, India

Datta, Upamanyu - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 68 (2015), pp. 1-18

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Citizen empowerment in service delivery

Babken, Babajanian - 2014

This paper examines different approaches for promoting empowerment and discusses conditions required for effective empowerment. It focuses on three empowerment models, including grievance redress, participatory performance monitoring, and community-driven development. There are three sets of...

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How a strong sense of community led to improvements in rural health care : the case of Patanatic, Guatemala

Smith, Jeffrey S.; Loder, Rachel J.; Xiquin, Sonia; … - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 28 (2016) 4, pp. 631-639

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