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Publication - Working Paper
Estimating economic characteristics with phone data
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Publication - Country study
Building legitimacy and state capacity in protracted fragility: The case of Afghanistan
This country study is published by the LSE-Oxford Commission on State Fragility, Growth and Development.
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Blog post
Conflict and firms: Industrial organisation in the face of insecurity
Conflict has a long shadow, and its role in inhibiting development is clear. Today, a billion and a half people live in countries affected by fragility, conflict, or violence (World Bank 2011). The important decisions individuals make in their daily lives – where to travel, where to live, where to work – are all haunted by the spectre of violence. Not only does personal...
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Afghanistan
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Project
Community monitoring to address leakage in roads construction in Afghanistan
Monitoring spending can reduce leakages and corruption in infrastructure spending. However, monitoring is difficult in conflict-ridden countries where government is weak. We evaluated a Community Based Monitoring programme, which enlisted local volunteers to monitor the quality of rural road construction adjoining their villages. Road quality was measured...
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Government mobile salary payments in Afghanistan
Governments must pay their employees for states to function. The current salary payment system in Afghanistan involves a combination of cash transfers and bank-based electronic funds transfers (EFTs), and is subject to frequently delays and, in some cases, severe leakage. The system we will evaluate – Mobile Salary Payments (MSPs) – holds the potential to simplify and...
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International aid & local legitimacy: The impact of subnational governance programmes in Afghanistan
Overview There is an emerging consensus that establishing legitimate governance in fragile states is critical for creating effective and resilient state institutions. While a growing body of research on fragile states suggests that acts of corruption by local elites and incidents of insecurity may undermine efforts to build public trust between governments and citizens,...
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High-resolution measures of poverty and vulnerability in Afghanistan: Cost-effective solutions based on mobile phone data
To make informed decisions, policymakers need accurate and timely information on the social and economic state of a nation and its population. Reliable measures of economic activity, population density, physical security, and migration are a few examples of information that play a critical role in guiding public policy. In Afghanistan and many other developing countries, it...
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Blog post
Will WTO membership boost trade and investment in land-locked Afghanistan?
WTO, established in 1995, works to provide a framework for trade policies to ensure freer, easier, and more predictable trade flows. They also provide technical assistance to low-income, developing and least-developed countries in transition to adjust WTO rules. In December 2015, the number of WTO member countries increased to 162. Afghanistan became the 36th...
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Why people vote for corrupt politicians: Evidence from survey experiments in Afghanistan
Corruption presents one of the greatest barriers to economic growth and institutional development in many, particularly conflict-riven, countries world-over. Given corruption’s pernicious effects, it is perhaps puzzling that corrupt politicians are elected at all. The conventional wisdom, both in the popular and scholarly literature, is that voters unknowingly vote for...