The Localized Geography of Foreign Aid: A New Dataset and Application to Violent Armed Conflict

World Development

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1995-2009

  Findley, Michael G ^a   Powell, Josh ^a   Strandow, Daniel ^b   Tanner, Jeff ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Angola; Foreign aid; Geocoding; Intrastate armed conflict; Mozambique; Sierra Leone

Indexed keywords

AID FLOW; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; INTERNATIONAL AID; OECD;

ANGOLA; MOZAMBIQUE; SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 80054038339     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.07.022     Document Type: Article

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