Parlez-vous français? Language and agricultural aid allocation strategies in northern Mali

The economic efficiency of aid targeting

“…Finally, our findings speak to and potentially complicate debates over explanations for the observed rich-region bias in aid allocation. Whereas other studies have identified the potential for variation in implementation costs to explain the positive correlation between subnational wealth and aid allocation (e.g., Maiden and Brockway, 2018 , Briggs, 2021 ), our study empirically investigates that possibility using data on project costs from World Bank project documents. We find little evidence that underlying costs are driving the observed differences in allocation across regions of at varying levels of need.…”

Exploring the nexus between business activity and development aid in favor of the development agenda

“…Some of the articles that deal with this SDG (Table 2, 14 articles) lay on the interface between this SDG and those related to gender, health, or educational issues, as they deal with development projects that foster women empowerment and involvement in agricultural activities (Aubee & Hussein, 2002; Baker & Edmonds, 2004), the direct impact of feed programs on chronic malnutrition decrease and health improvement (Saaka & Galaa, 2011), and school feeding programs that show a direct impact both on children nutrition and on primary education enrolment (Sulemana et al, 2013). Even more, a few of them (Archibald & Richards, 2002; Aubee & Hussein, 2002; Maiden & Brockway, 2018) place the focus on humanitarian/emergency rather than development aid.…”

A micro-level perspective on the relationships between presence of armed groups, armed conflict violence, and access to aid in Mopti, Mali

“…Previous evidence Maiden and Brockway (2018) analyze of the targeting of aid during conflict using village and household level survey data from Mali. They find that agricultural aid distributed by NGOs in conflict prone areas of northern Mali is not reaching those most in need.…”

“…They conclude that insecurity decreases humanitarian aid coverage, measured as the numbers of organizations, projects and personnel at the subnational level given the level of need. Finally, Maiden and Brockway (2018) analyze the targeting of aid during conflict using village and household level survey data from northern Mali. They find that agricultural aid distributed by NGOs in conflict prone areas of northern Mali is not necessarily reaching those most in need and that the political connections of local elected leaders matter.…”