The Management of Aid and Conflict in Africa
研究了发展援助管理与非洲暴力冲突的关系，发现世界银行项目管理质量通过项目负责人能力差异影响冲突：管理差的项目加剧冲突，管理好的项目减少冲突，监控和项目规模是关键因素。
This study investigates the relationship between the management of development aid and violent conflict in Africa. I exploit variation in World Bank project management quality driven by the assignment of project leaders of varying ability, combined with geo-coded data on all projects linked to performance report cards. I find that better project management reduces violent conflict across subnational aid receiving regions. Poorly managed projects increase conflict while well-managed projects do the opposite. Project monitoring is particularly important, and management matters most in regions with a recent history of warfare and for large projects that involve the transfer of appropriable resources.