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December 16, 2015
The research organization Aid Data has been getting a lot of attention in the aid world of late with its survey of recipient country policymakers and practitioners and their views of the utility, influence and helpfulness during reform of various aid agencies. Suggests the press release: &...
Dec
10
2015
12:30—2:00 PM
December 01, 2015
Can short–term unconditional cash transfers (UCT) create longer-term impacts? In a new paper, Berk Özler and co-authors study a group of young women in Malawi, who participated in a two-year cash transfer experiment as adolescents, in order to understand the long-term impacts of these sho...
Nov
4
2015
2:00—3:30 PM
October 28, 2015
Duncan Green reflects on the future of international aid and presents some advance thinking on his forthcoming book, How Change Happens, (OUP October 2016). He'll argue that theories of change are not just 'logframes on steroids', another reductionist toolkit destined to annoy aid practi...
Oct
22
2015
12:00—1:30 PM
October 16, 2015
How does civil war violence affect female political participation? Qualitative evidence suggests that new opportunities for women as political actors may arise during wartime. But these claims have not been systematically evaluated. In this paper, Omar García-Ponce uses rich micro-level data ...
Oct
8
2015
12:30—2:00 PM
October 05, 2015
Why are the wide gaps in living standards between rural and urban areas in developing countries so persistent? The presence of amenities in rural areas is one explanation for why (even more) people don't move from impoverished rural areas to urban centers. In her new paper, Martina Kirchberger l...