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View article: Missing Goals but Hitting Some Targets: Aid and the SDGs
Missing Goals but Hitting Some Targets: Aid and the SDGs Open
This paper investigates the extent to which official development assistance, popularly known as ‘aid’, is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As international donors cut back on their aid budgets, it becomes increasingly…
View article: Using surveys in realist evaluation
Using surveys in realist evaluation Open
Realist evaluation is a theory-based approach to evaluation which examines what works in what respects and to what extent, for whom, in what contexts and how. It focuses on identifying underlying mechanisms which cause outcomes and the con…
View article: Do White Saviour perceptions reduce charitable giving? Evidence from five online studies
Do White Saviour perceptions reduce charitable giving? Evidence from five online studies Open
International aid charities face a dilemma by virtue of the White Saviour: Appeal photos of Caucasian helpers in Global South settings can build a bridge to donors or cause donor resentment with changing social norms. We examine four resul…
View article: Does it matter how we measure poverty? Correlates of income and multidimensional poverty in Sri Lanka
Does it matter how we measure poverty? Correlates of income and multidimensional poverty in Sri Lanka Open
While it is widely accepted that poverty is multidimensional, debates over how it is best measured continue. This paper examines whether different measurements of poverty provide different implications from a policy perspective. Using prob…
View article: Aggregating the Human Development Index: A Non-compensatory Approach
Aggregating the Human Development Index: A Non-compensatory Approach Open
The United Nations’ Human Development Index remains a widely used and accepted measure of human development. Although it has been revised over the years to address various critiques, a remaining concern is the way the three dimensions are …
View article: Housing assistance and economic participation
Housing assistance and economic participation Open
This report discovers how housing assistance programs impact economic participation outcomes, once we control for the mediating effects that intermediary variables (such as health and neighbourhood) have on economic participation outcomes.
View article: Trouble in paradise? The impact of the global economic crisis in the Pacific in Commonwealth Finance Ministers Reference Report 2010
Trouble in paradise? The impact of the global economic crisis in the Pacific in Commonwealth Finance Ministers Reference Report 2010 Open
The Commonwealth Finance Ministers Reference Report is an annual publication providing Commonwealth Finance Ministers with a central source of information regarding macro- and micro- financial issues and trade relations that affect Commonw…
View article: Changing Lives: An Analysis of Child Sponsorship Data
Changing Lives: An Analysis of Child Sponsorship Data Open
Child sponsorship has been a foundation of Plan International’s work since our beginnings. We currently engage with 1.4 million sponsored children in 481 countries through sponsorship activities, communications and programmes. Back in 2006…
View article: Temperature shocks and household credit access: Investigating impacts and potential channels
Temperature shocks and household credit access: Investigating impacts and potential channels Open
We contribute to the literature by providing the first study to examine the effect of temperature shocks on household credit access. We use three waves of Malawian household data from the World Bank Microdata Library and weather data from …
View article: Allocating aid for COVID‐19 support: A constrained optimisation approach
Allocating aid for COVID‐19 support: A constrained optimisation approach Open
The objective of this paper is to develop a prescriptive model for the inter‐country allocation of aid for COVID‐19 support. Aid allocations are increasing functions of three dimensions of need: (i) hazard and exposure to COVID‐19; (ii) vu…
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View article: Does the power of the king stop at the village gate? Embeddedness and provincial development in Vietnam
Does the power of the king stop at the village gate? Embeddedness and provincial development in Vietnam Open
At a subnational level, studies typically find that embedded or local leaders are better at providing public goods relative to leaders appointed from other areas. This paper tests whether this finding holds in the context of the Socialist …
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Can China's new rural pension scheme alleviate the relative poverty of rural households?An empirical analysis based on the PSM-DID method
View article: Optimism Bias and World Bank Project Performance
Optimism Bias and World Bank Project Performance Open
This paper examines the correlates of optimism bias and its impact on World Bank project performance. We measure optimism bias in different ways using estimated Economic Rates of Return (ERR) of projects at approval and closure. We examine…
View article: Understanding sustainable outcomes in international development: Towards a realist evaluation framework
Understanding sustainable outcomes in international development: Towards a realist evaluation framework Open
Billions of dollars continue to be provided in foreign aid each year. However, few scholarly studies have examined whether the outcomes from foreign aid interventions are sustained after donor funding has ceased. This paper examines curren…
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View article: Child labor and psychosocial wellbeing: Findings from India
Child labor and psychosocial wellbeing: Findings from India Open
Mental health is a neglected health issue in developing countries. We test if mental health issues are particularly likely to occur among some of the most vulnerable children in developing countries: those that work. Despite falling in rec…
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View article: A Potent Fuel? Faith Identity and Development Impact in World Vision Community Programming
A Potent Fuel? Faith Identity and Development Impact in World Vision Community Programming Open
This paper explores the role of faith identity on impact in development by looking at the programming of a major international faith‐based development organisation (FBDO). It argues that faith identity rests not only in the internal projec…
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Wiley's Corporate Citizenship initiative seeks to address the environmental, social, economic, and ethical challenges faced in our business and which are important to our diverse stakeholder groups.Since launching the initiative, we have f…
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