Papers

Fragility and the New Aid Agenda: Beginning a Discussion

• Position paper on Aid, Governance and Fragility

Building State Capabilities

• WIDER Working Paper 2012/104: It’s All About MeE: Using Structured Experiential Learning (‘e’) to Crawl the Design Space
  Lant Pritchett, Salimah Samji and Jeffrey Hammer
   
• WIDER Working Paper 2012/63: Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation
  Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock and Matt Andrews
  
  • Research Brief: The development process – the problem of imitating success
     
• WIDER Working Paper 2012/64: Escaping Capability Traps Through Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)
  Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett, and Michael Woolcock
  
  • Research Brief: The development process - escaping the capability trap
     
• WIDER Working Paper 2013/63: A capable state in Afghanistan: A building without a foundation?
  Frauke de Weijer
  
  • Research Brief: Building a capable state in Afghanistan
     
• WIDER Working Paper 2013/96: Using case studies to explore the external validity of ‘complex’ development interventions
  Michael Woolcock

Aid and Fragility: What Has Worked?

• Draft position paper on Aid, Governance and Fragility
   
• WIDER Working Paper 2013/112: The National Solidarity Programme: Assessing the effects of community-driven development in Afghanistan
  Andrew Beath, Fotini Christia, and Ruben Enikolopov
   
• WIDER Working Paper 2013/113: Impact assessment of the Facilitadores Judiciales programme in Nicaragua
  Maurits Barendrecht, Margot Kokke, Martin Gramatikov, Robert Porter, Morly Frishman, Andrea Morales

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Cross-Cutting Issues: Bringing It All Together

• WIDER Working Paper 2012/47: Aid, Employment and Inclusive Growth in Conflict-Affected Countries: Policy Recommendations for Liberia
  Graciana del Castillo
  • ​Research Brief: How to achieve economics of peace?

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More to read

Building State Capabilities

• WIDER Working Paper 2013/111: Overcoming the limits of institutional reform in Uganda
  Matt Andrews and Lawrence Bategeka
   
• WIDER Working Paper 2013/108: Intervention, aid, and institution-building in Iraq and Afghanistan: A review and critique of comparative lessons
  Jonathan Monten
   
• WIDER Working Paper 2013/102: Foreign aid, resource rents and institution-building in Mozambique and Angola
  Helena Pérez Niño, and Philippe Le Billon
   
• WIDER Working Paper 2013/91: How do governments become great? Ten cases, two competing explanations, one large research agenda
  Matt Andrews
   
• WIDER Working Paper 2013/92: Who really leads development?
  Matt Andrews
   
• WIDER Working Paper 2013/10: Taxation and development: A review of donor support to strengthen tax systems in developing countries
  Odd-Helge Fjeldstad