IOB Discussion Papers

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2024.03: Miners’ endurance in informal gold mining: the extreme case of La Rinconada, Peru

Eugenia Robles Mengoa and Ana Luisa Sánchez

2024.02: Can cash transfers really be transformative? A literature review of the sustainability of their impacts

Filippo Grisolia

2024.01: The differential effects of foreign aid to sub-Saharan Africa

Afuge Akame and George Mavrotas

2023.02: Authority and power in local orders: customary authorities, the state, and jihadist insurgency in Mali

Gianfabrizio Ladini

2023.01: Effective Altruism and the strategic ambiguity of ‘doing good’

Mollie Gleiberman

2022.04: The influence of COVID-19 on remittances: potential development outcomes

George Mavrotas and Catherine Van den Bosch

2022.03: Social accountability initiatives in the delivery of public services in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic literature review

Doreen Nico Kyando

2022.02: Structuration of armed mobilisation in eastern DRC’s Kahuzi-Biega National Park

O’Leary Simpson, Fergus, Romain Lwaboshi, Yves Ikobo and Papy Mulume

2022.01: Crispations identitaires et "identités légitimatrices" pendant crise politique: un regard rétrospectif sur la crise du 3ème mandat au Burundi

Denis Banshimiyubusa

2021.07: The case of ‘double’ mining and conservation frontiers: evidence from DRC and Madagascar

Fergus Simpson and Marketta Vuola

2021.06: Changing intrahousehold decision making to empower women in their households: a mixed methods analysis of a field experiment in rural south-west Tanzania

Els Lecoutere and Lan Chu

2021.05: Sharing the little there is: towards a durable refugee-host relationship in Northern Uganda

Sarah Vancluysen

2021.04: Beyond Samuragwa’s sweet and sour succession: a closer look at Burundi’s 2020 elections

Stef Vandeginste

2021.03: When the hidden transcript storms centre stage: from slow to sudden violence in eastern DRCongo’s Kahuzi-Biega National Park

Fergus O'Leary Simpson

2021.02: How to understand ex-combatants’ political participation against the background of rebel-to-party transformations

Eliane Giezendanner and Bert Ingelaere

2021.01: Abordaje de la venta ambulante en Guayaquil - Ecuador: desde los discursos hegemónicos a un enfoque basado en los derechos

Lisette Villacrés and Sara Geenen

2020.03: Big data for poverty measurement: insights from a scoping review

Michaëla Stubbers and Nathalie Holvoet

2020.02: Framing street vending in Guayaquil – Ecuador: from hegemonic discourses to a rights-based approach

Lisette Villacrés and Sara Geenen

2020.01: Abstracting Congolese forests: mappings, representational narratives, and the production of the plantation space under REDD+

Catherine Windey

2019.04: Can the logical framework help to manage change? Perspectives from the field of security sector reform

Daniel Szczepanski and Tom De Herdt

2019.03: Tilting the balance: a real options analysis of Burundian president Nkurunziza's third term candidacy

Danny Cassimon and Stef Vandeginste

2019.02: The missing link in hybrid peacebuilding: localized peace trajectories & endogenous knowledge

Aura Liliana López López and Bert Ingelaere

2019.01: Did conditional cash transfers in the Productive Safety Net Program empower women in Tigray, north-east Ethiopia?

Megos Desalegne Gelagay and Els Lecoutere

2018.02: Women in (and out of) artisanal mining: apposing policy and women's lived experiences in Lujinji B and Wakayiba mines, Mubende, Uganda

Stella Muheki and Sara Geenen

2018.01: Chicken now, not eggs later: short-termism, underdevelopment and regime stabilisation in the DRC’s oil governance

Patrick Edmond and Kristof Titeca

2017.02: Local integration as a durable solution? The case of Rwandan refugees in Uganda

Frank Ahimbisibwe, Bert Ingelaere and Sarah Vancluysen

2017.01: Water and local development in Huamantanga: a pathway interpretation of opportunities and risks of the Law of Compensation and Reward Mechanisms for Ecosystem Services in Peru

Johan Bastiaensen, Patricia Velarde, Katya Pérez, Gert Van Hecken and Bert De Bièvre

2016.02: Diagnosing monitoring and evaluation systems for climate change programs: case study of the Caribbean’s climate change program

Saudia Raha and Nathalie Holvoet

2016.01: The Rwenzururu movement and the struggle for the Rwenzururu kingdom in Uganda

Arthur Syahuka-Muhindo and Kristof Titeca

2015.05: The frontiers of the debate on Payments for Ecosystem Services: a proposal for innovative future research

Gert Van Hecken, Johan Bastiaensen and Catherine Windey

2015.04: Making sense of territorial pathways to rural development: a proposal for a normative and analytical framework

Johan Bastiaensen, Pierre Merlet, Marc Craps, Tom De Herdt, Selmira Flores, Frederic Huybrechs, René Mendoza, Griet Steel and Gert Van Hecken

2015.03: Discourses, fragmentation and coalitions: the case of Herakles Farms’ large-scale land deal in Cameroon

Teclaire Same Moukoudi and Sara Geenen

2015.02: La construction d’un socle de protection sociale au Burundi

Frederic Ntimarubusa

2015.01: Arusha at 15: reflections on power-sharing, peace and transition in Burundi

Stef Vandeginste

2014.01: Colombian coffee strategies and the livelihoods of smallholders

Monica Patricia Niño Peña and Wim Pelupessy

2013.03: The future of artisanal gold mining and miners under an increasing industrial presence in South Kivu and Ituri, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Sara Geenen, Daniel Fahey and Francine Iragi Mukotanyi

2013.02: Adolescents and violence: lessons from Burundi

Marc Sommers

2013.01: Let’s be friends: the United States, post-genocide Rwanda, and victor’s justice in Arusha

Luc Reydams

2012.03: Rwanda’s ruling party-owned enterprises: do they enhance or impede development?

Nilgün Gökgür

2012.02: Struggles over property rights in the context of large-scale transnational land acquisitions: using legal pluralism to re-politicize the debate. Illustrated with case studies from Madagascar and Ghana

Johan Bastiaensen and Pierre Merlet

2012.01: From property rights and institutions, to beliefs and social orders: revisiting Douglass North’s approach to development

Sebastian Dellepiane-Avellaneda

2011.06: Voting practices and voters political thinking during the 2010 Burundi elections

Hélène Helbig de Balzac, Bert Ingelaere and Stef Vandeginste

2011.05: Pratiques de vote et pensées politiques des électeurs durant les élections de 2010 au Burundi

Hélène Helbig de Balzac, Bert Ingelaere and Stef Vandeginste

2011.04: Community-based initiatives in response to the OVC crisis in North Central Uganda

Kristof Titeca and Samuel Samson Omwa

2011.03: Towards an understanding of civil society organisations' involvement in monitoring and evaluation

Marie Gildemyn

2011.02: The Belgian NGO landscape and the challenges of the new aid approach: dealing with fragmentation and emerging complexities

Nadia Molenaers, Leen Nijs and Huib Huyse

2011.01: Approfondir le profilage géographique de la pauvreté en RDC: l’introduction d’indices composites sur base des avoirs

Wim Marivoet and Hugues Keje

2010.06: Budget support and policy/political dialogue: donor practices in handling (political) crises

Nadia Molenaers, Linas Cepinskas and Bert Jacobs

2010.05: Food aid impact on poverty reduction: empirical evidence from rural households in Ethiopia

Mulubrhan Amare Reda and German Calfat

2010.04: Institutional embeddedness of local willingness to Pay for Environmental Services: evidence From Matiguás, Nicaragua

Gert Van Hecken, Johan Bastiaensen and William F. Vásquez