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Kill your darlings? Do new aid flows help achieve a poverty minimizing allocation of aid
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-11)
In this study, we derive a poverty-minimizing allocation rule, based on which we assess the poverty-efficiency of actual aid allocations, with a special focus on the comparative impact of new donors and new non-aid flows. ...
Aid and institutions: Local effects of World Bank aid on perceived institutional quality in Africa
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-06)
Motivated by the lack of sub-national empirical evidence on the relationship between aid and institutional development, this study explores the local effects of World Bank aid on perceived institutional quality in African ...
Harmful norms: Can social convention theory explain the persistence of female genital cutting in Africa!
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-11)
This paper investigates the explanatory power of social convention theory for explaining
the persistence of female genital cutting (FGC) in a broad sample of African countries. While
influential in policy circles, the ...