Analysis
Browse publications from our programs and news from our distinguished scholars
Assessing Climate Change Finance in South and South East Asia
CEPSA aid researchers Catherine Weaver, Nisha Krishnan, and Caleb Rudow assess project information available for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction to concentrate on five major donors: the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Japanese International Cooperation Agency, United Kingdom Department for International Development, and the United States Agency for International Development.
New Migrant Routes, the Same Policy Responses: African Migration to Mexico
Yates, Caitlyn, Dec 2017
Climate Vulnerability in South Asia’s Coastal Cities
CEPSA governance researchers Paula Newberg and Samuel Tabory explore questions about coastal cities in South Asia and their own understandings of their societies, polities, economies and governing capacities in the face of increasing climate-related threats.
Migrant Smuggling Along Mexico’s Highway System
This paper addresses how smugglers bypass the train network to move migrants north in buses, trailers, and private vehicles along Mexico’s highway system. By analyzing cases from both before and after Plan Frontera Sur, this paper documents migrants’ increasing reliance on more invisible forms of transportation.
Conflict Trends Report November 2017
This month’s issue includes conflict summaries on Burundi, Tunisia, and Somalia. The report focuses on protests and low-level violence in Ethiopia’s border regions, violence in Kenya around the electoral re-run, Boko Haram’s weakened but ongoing campaign of violence and continued communal violence in Nigeria, a spike in violence in Mozambique’s northern region of Cabo Delgado…
Conflict Trends Report October 2017
This month’s issue includes conflict summaries on Nigeria and Somalia. The report focuses on expanding militant Islamist activity in and around Burkina Faso, simmering tensions in Egypt’s Sinai province, the resurgence of the Islamic State in Libya, recent spikes in protests and riots in both Cameroon and Togo as well as shifting conflict dynamics in…
Conflict Trends Report September 2017
This month’s issue focuses on increasing protests in the aftermath of the elections in Angola, growing uncertainty and frustration as the political stalemate in the Democratic Republic of Congo continues, changing dynamics of political competition and risk in Kenya, and the shifting tactics of Boko Haram in Nigeria.
Working Paper: Politicizing Disaster Preparation
CEPSA researcher Jennifer Bussell uses new and unique data on disaster preparedness training from India’s states to show that it is not simply exposure to past hazards that predicts preparedness policies, but rather the character of that experience and the incentives of the government to deliver public goods, that are most important to understanding policy outcomes.
Asian Conflict Trends August 2017
The August 2017 ACLED-Asia’s Conflict Trends Report includes comprehensive analysis of real-time political violence in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, and Sri Lanka. A Special Focus Topic discusses Islamist insurgencies in the region.
Working Paper: Political Economy of Disaster Preparedness
CEPSA graduate student researcher Sabhanaz Rashid Daya analyzes the Government of Bangladesh’s capacity to make disaster management a national priority. Recent evidence suggests that the government is increasingly using its own funds to invest in preparedness.