Abstract The widespread prevalence of unexploded landmines in many countries leads to thousands of deaths and injuries annually. In addition, landmines may impede the flow of goods and people; this...
1. Introduction This study explores the capacity of foreign aid to protect children from the devastating consequences of stunting, or impaired growth. Stunting refers to being too short for one’s age...
Introduction Pour comprendre les conditions de vie des populations et évaluer les impacts des programmes visant à les améliorer, les gouvernements et les partenaires au développement se sont souvent...
Introduction To understand living conditions and assess the impacts of programs aimed at improving those conditions, governments and development partners have often relied on household quantitative...
Executive summary The Wellness and Agriculture for Life Advancement (WALA) project, which operated from 2009-2014, sought to improve the food security and vulnerability of 214,974 chronically food...
Authors: Jennifer Turner, Bryan Burgess Citation: Turner, Jennifer, and Bryan Burgess. 2019. Estimating Financing to the Sustainable Development Goals: Methodology Note for V2.0. Williamsburg, VA:...
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POLICY BRIEF Jennifer Turner Introduction Investigating Financial Flows to the SDGs With 17 goals and 169 associated targets, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent an unprecedented...
Samuel Lordemus Department of Economics University of Sheffield Slordemus1@sheffield.ac.uk Abstract I examine the effectiveness of donors in targeting the highest burden of malaria in the Democratic...
Andreas Fuchs Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg (HSU/UniBwH) & Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) Hannes Öhler German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) ...
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Allison Carnegie Columbia University Kimberly Howe Feinstein International Center, Tufts University Adam Lichtenheld University of California, Berkeley Dipali Mukhopadhyay Columbia University ...
Introduction On April 25, 2015 an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck central Nepal.1 With more than 100 subsequent aftershocks, of which the largest reached an intensity of 7.3 on May 12, it was one...
Introduction According to the UNHCR, an unprecedented 65.3 million people were displaced from their homes by war, internal conflicts, natural disasters or poverty in 2018. As developed countries like...
Andreas Fuchs HSU Hamburg & IfW Kiel Germany Angelika Müller Heidelberg University Germany Abstract Almost half of the world’s states provide bilateral development assistance. While previous research...
1. Introduction: The role of information in education Today, 650 million children around the globe are at risk of being left behind as they fail to learn basic skills. Inequitable access to education...
In spite of rising inequality within countries, policymakers often fall into the trap of evaluating progress from the top-down, rather than the bottom-up. Bilateral aid agencies and multilateral...
Introduction Three Views Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires mobilizing resources from a variety of sources, including international partners, domestic budgets, foundations...
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In 2016, researchers from the AidData Center for Development Policy interviewed 200 decision-makers and those that advise them in Honduras, Timor-Leste, and Senegal. Central government officials,...
Groundbreaking study on how developing world leaders view German aid DEval, the German Institute for Development Evaluation, and AidData, a research lab at William & Mary, today released a...
Daniel Strandow, Michael G. Findley, Joseph K. Young Does foreign aid increase or decrease violence during ongoing wars? Although answers to this question are almost surely found at local levels,...
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July 20, 2016-- On Monday, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan For Aids Relief (PEPFAR), announced the provisional winners of its $85 million DREAMS innovation challenge to reduce HIV/AIDS rates...
