Once upon a time in the not too distant past an international NGO decided to do nature conservation in the Wasi river basin. This was [an] understandable idea. The place was the environmentalist’s dream. Lots and lots of bush filled with a multitude of flying and biting things. A diverse bunch of unwashed and scabrous savages leading traditional lives that they punctuated with stories and wars ...

Being closer to the poor, NGOs are widely believed to provide better targeted aid than state agencies. But empirical evidence is largely lacking. We contribute to closing this gap by drawing on an exceptionally detailed Swiss database that covers different forms of NGO aid and several official aid benchmarks. The differentiated Tobit estimations account for both altruistic and selfish aid motiv...

The large number of asylum seekers dying off the coast Libya has turned Southern Mediterranean Sea into a new humanitarian space, prompting 11 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to launch maritime Search and Rescue (SAR) operations between 2014 2017. These NGOs engaged in complex web interactions, ranging from rare instances hostility, competition mistrust coordination, cooperation integrati...

In recent years, spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) has emerged as an efficient way to probe the spontaneous magnetization state in ordered magnetic systems, by electrical current. Less known is its versatility a of materials that do not possess such paramagnets. this work, SMR used paramagnetic NdGaO3 (NGO), rare earth oxide, possessing sizable orbit interaction (L=6). NGO been investigated ear...