My latest article has appeared in Third World Quarterly. Co-authored with my former graduate student, Princess Ilonze, the article is titled “Taking foreign aid and decoupling seriously: a framework for research” and is available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436597.2021.1898279
The latest article from my Developing Conformity research project has been published in The Sociological Quarterly. Co-authored with Dr. Qian Wei, the article examines the relationship of bilateral foreign aid flows to human rights decoupling in aid-receiving countries. ABSTRACT Despite extensive literature examining human rights decoupling between treaty commitments and practices, little research has addressed … Read more
Andrew Dawson (York University, Glendon Campus) and I have published the latest article from the Developing Conformity project in the British Journal of Sociology. The article is available to all via open access. This article uses a World Society theory framework to test the effects of foreign aid on both the diffusion of rule of law reforms … Read more
Emmanuel Banchani (MUN Sociology PhD Candidate) and I have published our article “The Impact of Aid on Maternal Mortality” in the UNU-WIDER edited special issue of Politics and Governance on aid effectiveness. This is the peer-reviewed article version of the working paper highlighted in this previous post.
A Working Paper by Emmanuel Banchani and I on the effects of foreign aid on infant mortality levels over time has been published by UNU-WIDER. An article version of the paper is forthcoming in a special issue of Politics & Governance on “Aid Impact and Effectiveness”, edited by Rachel M. Gisselquist and Finn Tarp (UNU-WIDER, … Read more