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Eradicating Poverty in Fragile States: Prospects of Reaching the "High-Hanging" Fruit by 2030

Burt, Alison; Hughes, Barry; Milante, Gary - 2014

for fragile states in which an increasingly large share of the global poor will live (estimated at nearly four in 10 by … rate for fragile states by 2030 given current conditions and trends. The paper considers alternative scenarios to identify … levers and simply assumes exceptional economic growth and decreased inequality for fragile states. This extremely optimistic …

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Bringing the citizen back in : supporting decentralisation in fragile states ; a view from Burundi

Gaynor, Niamh - In: Development policy review 32 (2014) 2, pp. 203-218

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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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Systemic risk, contagion, and financial networks: A survey

Chinazzi, Matteo; Fagiolo, Giorgio - 2013

The recent crisis has highlighted the crucial role that existing linkages among banks and financial institutions plays in channeling and amplifying shocks hitting the system. The structure and evolution of such web of linkages can be fruitfully characterized using concepts borrowed from the...

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Foreign aid, resource rents and institution-building in Mozambique and Angola

Pérez Niño, Helena; Le Billon, Philippe - 2013

Sharing similar colonial and post-independence civil war experiences, Mozambique and Angola's development paths are often contrasted, with foreign aid-dependent Mozambique hailed a success compared to oil rentier Angola. This paper questions the so-called Mozambican miracle and contrasts it with...

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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

and remains a fragile state, one of the worse globally. The reasons for aid failure are legion but mostly relate to highly …

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The World Bank's health projects in Timor-Leste: The political economy of effective aid

Rosser, Andrew; Bremner, Sharna - 2013

of the Bank's experience for our understanding of the conditions that lead to effective aid in fragile contexts. Much …

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

Larson, Greg - 2013

, particularly in fragile post-conflict environments. In such complex, highly challenging contexts, orthodoxy often fails. …

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Operationalizing Experience: Donor Approaches to Service Delivery in Fragile States

DiCaprio, Alisa - 2013

This study explores the different approaches to service delivery in fragile states by surveying donors' own evaluations … of their existing fragile states policies. Because there is limited understanding of what works in risky environments …

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Local and community governance for peace and development in Nepal

Mallik, Vidyadhar - 2013

The end of the ten-year-long armed conflict between the Maoists and the government and the peace agreements of late 2006 brought widespread hope for a more inclusive and well-governed Nepal. However, six years later in early 2013, the failure to produce the promised new constitution and an...

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