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Fragile aid : development cooperation in weak states and conflict contexts
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New York : Oxford University Press, 2025, Wider studies in development economics
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GISSELQUIST, Rachel M., JUSTINO, Patricia, VACCARO, Andrea, Fragile aid : development cooperation in weak states and conflict contexts, New York : Oxford University Press, 2025, Wider studies in development economics - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/93997
Abstract
An important question for the future of aid concerns its role in weak states and conflict contexts areas. While considerable research points to a mixed record of effectiveness in these contexts, the imperative of external support for development and humanitarian needs persists. Bringing together findings from a diverse set of expert analyses, this volume sheds new light on the record of aid under fragility, spotlighting two key implications for research and practice going forward. First, more systematic unpacking of the considerable diversity that exists across fragile contexts is needed to better understand past experience and its lessons for future practice. Second, the aid effectiveness principles provide important insight into how aid can be improved, but there are fundamental challenges to their application in weak states and conflict contexts. In sum, the world urgently needs better aid, not less aid.
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-- PART I: INTRODUCTION
-- 1:Development cooperation under fragility: Evidence from across the globe, Rachel M. Gisselquist, Patricia Justino, and Andrea Vaccaro
-- PART II: WAYS FORWARD IN WEAK STATES AND CONFLICT SITUATIONS
-- 2:What aid works (or not) in highly fragile states? Evidence from Afghanistan, Mali, and South Sudan, 2008-21, Christoph Zürcher
-- 3:Fragile states in an era of geopolitical rivalry, pandemic and war: Insights from the Country Indicators for Foreign Policy, David Carment and Yiagadeesen Samy
-- 4:Can aid reduce violence?, Anke Hoeffler
-- PART III: OWNERSHIP AND SOCIAL CONTRACT IN WEAK STATES AND CONFLICT SITUATIONS
-- 5:Southern perspectives on effective development cooperation: rethinking country ownership, Debapriya Bhattacharya, Towfiqul Islam Khan, and Najeeba Mohammed Altaf
-- 6:Rethinking the relationship between community-driven reconstruction and the social sciences: lessons from Afghanistan, Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili
-- 7:Why is it important to use a social contract lens for donor interventions in Somalia, Gaël Raballand, Deborah Isser, Hodan Hassan and Mathieu Cloutier
-- 8:Local participation in the context of national ownership: The playing out of aid nurtured ideals in Rwanda and Cambodia, Malin Hasselskog, Vedaste Ndizera, and Joakim Öjendal
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Published: 01 April 2025