Research

Publications

• What Shapes Recipient Attitudes toward Foreign Aid Bypass? Evidence from Bangladesh. 2026. Studies in Comparative International Development, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-026-09486-6 

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• Bypassing the Incumbent: Leadership Tenure and Foreign Aid Channels (with Susan Allen and Lauren Ferry).  2023. Global Studies Quarterly, 3 (1), 1-12.

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• Affinity or Effectiveness? Donors' Preferences for Bypass Aid  (with Susan Allen and Lauren Ferry). 2024.  International Interactions, 50(2), 243-272. 

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• Representation Matters? Female legislators and Women’s health in Bangladesh (with Samuel Brazys). 2024. World Development, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106708. 

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Working Papers and Work Under Review

• Does the Channel of Foreign Aid Delivery Matter? Public Opinion on US Foreign Aid Bypass (with Susan Allen and Lauren Ferry),  Under Review

• Politics at play: Electoral Competition and Human Development in Bangladesh (with Muhammad Al Amin)

• Foreign Aid Delivery Tactics and Political Support in Bangladesh

• Designed to Insulate? Corruption, Clarity of Responsibility, and Electoral Accountability in Latin America

• When Stability Suffices: Aid Bypass in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes

• Trade Openness and the Onset of Major Nonviolent Resistance Campaigns: An Empirical Analysis

Research in Progress

• Gubernatorial Term Limits and State Government Expenditures: A Synthetic Control Analysis

Research Report

• CPD (2011). State of the Bangladesh economy in FY2010-11 (first reading). CPD Occasional Paper 92.  Dhaka: Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD).