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    The impact of food assistance on pastoralist livelihoods in humanitarian crises: an evidence synthesis protocol

    Oxfam, 2016
    This protocol outlines plans for conducting an evidence synthesis on the impact of food aid on past
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    Humanitarian emergency response review

    Department for International Development, UK, 2011
    The scale, frequency and severity of rapid onset humanitarian disasters will continue to grow in the coming years, due to a number of factors - including rapid population growth, especially in disaster prone areas, and changes in sea levels, in global rainfall and stormpatterns. This Independent review of the UK Government's humanitarian response systems argues
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    Foreign aid shocks as a cause of violent armed conflict

    Brigham Young University Political Science Department, 2010
    Researchers have attempted to link foreign aid to conflict with some suggesting that aid exacerbates existing ethnic cleavages while others say it presents an opportunity to payoff rebels who start civil war. Yet others argue that aid decreases the risk of civil war by promoting economic growth and strengthening state capabilities.
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    The State’s legitimacy in fragile situations - unpacking complexity

    OECD Development Co-operation Directorate: DAC Guidelines and Reference Series, 2010
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    Demand-driven governance: an analysis of the interventions of international aid agencies

    Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2009
    This working paper reviews demand-driven governance as a set of principles which have characterised aid and development interventions in certain post-conflict contexts, using Nepal as a case study. 
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    A new phase in postwar reconstruction

    Tiri, 2009
    In nations emerging from war, the immediate postwar period rarely lives up to the hopes and expectations of the country’s citizens or the international community. An upsurge in corruption and a lack of accountability, which frequently become entrenched during this time, can erode trust in democracy and its institutions, thereby eating away at the legitimacy of the postwar state.
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    Yemen: fear of failure

    Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2008
    Yemen is the poorest nation in the Arab world, its location means it acts as a buffer zone between the Horn of Africa and Saudi Arabia and its president’s thirty year reign has been recently been struggling with a deteriorating security situation.
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    Aid and violence: development policies and conflict in Nepal

    Feinstein International Center, USA, 2009
    This paper aims to illustrate how aid policies and conflict are intertwined. It analyses the development/conflict nexus in Nepal over the last decade and includes discussions with aid agencies, donors, and analysts in Kathmandu.
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    The impact of the financial crisis on conflict and state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2009
    It was thought that Sub-Saharan Africa would be largely unaffected by the financial crisis. However, as many Sub-Saharan African countries are dependent on foreign finance inflows and are even more dependent on commodity based exports, this has been swiftly revised.
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    The global financial crisis: risks for fragile states in Africa

    Overseas Development Institute, 2009
    This commentary brief considers the risks of the global financial crisis to fragile states, particularly in Africa. The author writes that it poses a serious threat to global peace and security and has the potential to create the conditions whereby policy disputes spiral into instability – violent or non-violent.

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