Aid Under Fire: Development Projects and Civil Conflict

By Benjamin Crost, P. Johnston. 2010

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Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention: Evidence from Discontinuities in Military Strategies (2018, unknown): “In contrast, Crost et al. (2014) offer a cautionary note, documenting that insurgents may sabotage development programs if they expect them to weaken their support, and Nunn and Qian (2014) find that U.S. food aid increases conflict.”
Conditional Cash Transfers, Civil Conflict and Insurgent Influence: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines (2016, methodology): “Of particular interest is a comparison with the results of Crost et al. (2014), who found that a large-scale CDD program, KALAHI-CIDSS, increased local conflict in the Philippines.”
US Food Aid and Civil Conflict (2014, methodology): “The recent study by Crost, Felter, and Johnston (2012) uses a regression discontinuity design to evaluate the effect of World Bank aid on civil conflict within the Philippines.23 The authors estimate that the treatment increases the incidence of conflict during the period when aid is received by…”
Making Progress on Foreign Aid (2015, unknown): “For example, in a study of U.S. aid to eight countries (Egypt, India, Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand and Turkey) during 1972-1987, Khilji & Zampelli (1994) find that aid is highly fungible and that recipients can easily circumvent donor-imposed restrictions and spend aid on non-targ”
Tracking Underreported Financial Flows: China’s Development Finance and the Aid–Conflict Nexus Revisited (2017, unknown): “, Grossman 1992; Collier and Hoeffler 2002; Esman and Herring 2003; De Ree and Nillesen 2009; Savun and Tirone 2011, 2012; Nunn and Qian 2013; Crost et al. 2014). Scholars continue to debate the precise impact of foreign aid flows on conflict in recipient states. For example, increases in aid might ”